What you'll learn
- The focus is to exploring the relationship of attachment as well as our brain’s development and how our experience or relationships with our mother, family, friends, and cultural experiences guides the brain’s development.
Requirements
- This is a discussion of the elements of trauma informed care and supporting materials on the nature of how trauma/adversity can impact life and health throughout the lifespan.
Description
Presenter: William Morgan, MD, MA
Join William Morgan, MD, MA in exploring the relationship of attachment as well as our brain’s development and how our experience or relationships with our mother, family, friends, and cultural experiences guides the brain’s development. “What fires together, wires together”. The roles of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth (the Strange Situation) will allow exploration of the secure / insecure patterns of attachment. The concepts of the social synapse, the social brain, circle of security and sociostasis will allow an understanding how relationships regulate our lives. Understanding how the brain has developed over time and how the various anatomical parts function to make us human, will help to explain the nature – nurture paradigm. The Polyvagal theory will help to explain how our behavior is based on the system you are functioning in at that time. The effects of trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences will then make sense in how we have adapted in the face of trauma and adverse events. The good news is that our brain has neuroplasticity for our entire life span and can change if we are in the right relationships / environment.
Learning Objectives:
1. Define attachment and the role of Bowlby and Ainsworth
2. Describe the Strange Situation and the attachment patterns
3. Explain the concept of the social synapse
4. Explain the social brain
5. Explain Porges’ Polyvagal Theory of behavior
6. Explain the Circle of Security and how insecure attachment patterns are explained by the COS
7. Explain Sociostasis : How relationships regulate our lives
8. Explain the impact of early and chronic stress on our brain and body
This course is available for CE units from Arizona Trauma Institute. Contact luci.rhoton@aztrauma.org for further information.
Who this course is for:
- Mental health, teachers, probation, courts, child-protective agencies, foster parents, clergy
Course content
- 02:02Welcome
- 00:30Module I: The Neuroscience of Attachment/Attachment Classifications
- Preview01:00:03
- 20 questionsThe Neuroscience of Attachment/Attachment Classifications
- 00:35Module II: The Polyvagal Theory
- 01:00:04The Polyvagal Theory
- 12 questionsThe Polyvagal Theory
- 00:37Module III: Circle of Security and Brain structure
- 01:00:01Circle of Security and Brain structure
- 16 questionsCircle of Security and Brain structure
- 00:41Module IV: Brain Integrated Networks & ACEs
- 01:11:56Brain Integrated Networks & ACEs
- 12 questionsBrain Integrated Networks & ACEs
- 01:11Congratulations on the successful completion of the training!
Instructor
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Dr. Robert Rhoton, CEO of Arizona Trauma Institute and President at the Trauma Institute International possesses a rich history of experience in the mental health field. Dr. Rhoton has supervised multiple outpatient clinics, juvenile justice programs, and intensive outpatient substance abuse programs for adolescents, day treatment programs for youth and children, adult offender programs and child and family therapeutic services. Additionally, Dr. Rhoton has advanced training in child and adolescent trauma treatment, family therapy, and family trauma. Dr. Rhoton served as president of the Arizona Trauma Therapy Network from 2010 through 2012. Dr. Rhoton was a Professor at Ottawa University in the Behavioral Sciences and Counseling Department whose primary interests were training counselors to work with traumagenic family dynamics, child and family trauma, and non-egoic models of treatment. Dr. Rhoton is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and collaborates and consults with numerous Arizona agencies fine tuning their understanding of trauma and the impact of developmental trauma on the individual and family. Dr. Rhoton has served on the Arizona Department of Health Services Trauma Informed Care (TIC) task force, currently is on a SAMHSA Technical Assistance committee working with trauma and education. Dr. Rhoton also works with Arizona State Epidemiologists around the identifying of concrete markers and the predictive nature of public health impact of early developmental trauma on Arizona children.
Dr. Rhoton's most recent publication can be found in the July 2017 Journal of Counseling and Development titled; Trauma Competency: An Active Ingredients Approach to Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.