Jennifer Sweeton – Neuroscience for Clinicians: Powerful Brain-Centric Interventions to Help Your Clients Overcome Anxiety, Trauma, Substance Abuse and Depression
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- Faculty:
- Jennifer Sweeton
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 41 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Sep 08, 2016
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| Manual (4.96 MB) | 83 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
- Tour through the Brain: What clinicians need to know from neurons to structures, to pathways, to networks
- See brain structures in 3-D
- How the brain processes top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal
- The interplay of mental health and key nervous system structures, functions, and pathways
- Work with implicit and explicit memories
- How key pathways inform clinical interventions:
- Pain Pathway
- Reward Pathway
- Fear-Stress Pathway
- Nervous System Networks and the Social Brain: We are wired for attunement
- Default Mode (DMN) and Task Mode Networks (TMN)
- Healing attachment
- Activate mirror neurons bottom-up
- Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis: How the brain can change
- Three timeframes for change
- Neuroplasticity at the synapse
- How to foster neuroplasticity in clients
- Neuroplasticity in action: Exercise your brain!
- Practice Interventions for Healing: Bottom-up, top-down, and horizontal
- Sensory Awareness
- Meditation and Mindfulness
- Body Work
- Unconscious and the DMN
- The Mind-Body Link
- Integrate the Brain into Treatments
- Stress
- How stress alters the nervous system
- Calm the stress/fear pathway
- Develop alert/relaxed attention for better coping
- Trauma
- Foster confidence with yoga
- Malleability of memories and clinical implications for treating trauma
- Reconsolidate implicit memories
- Anxiety
- The anxious brain reaction
- Work top down/ bottom up/ horizontally
- Calm the limbic system bottom up with movement
- Soothe the insula through meditative sensory awareness
- Deconstruct sensations mindfully
- Substance Abuse
- Brain areas involved in addictions
- Rewire the reward pathway
- Detach from pleasure and pain
- Prefrontal connections and judgment
- Depression
- The depressed brain pattern
- Effects of yoga and meditation on the nervous system
- Regulate the limbic system: the prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus and mindfulness
- Unify real and ideal
- Foster joyful relationship through mirror neurons
- Develop compassion and gratitude
- Stress
- 6 Principles for Incorporating the Brain into your Therapy
Faculty
Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D., M.S., M.A. Related seminars and products: 12
Organizational Consultant, Clinical Psychologist
Mind Works Professional Education Inc
Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and internationally-recognized expert on trauma, anxiety, and the neuroscience of mental health. Dr. Sweeton has been practicing EMDR for nearly a decade and has treated a variety of populations using EMDR and other memory reconsolidation approaches, including combat veterans, individuals with PTSD and complex trauma, and those suffering from treatment-resistant anxiety.
She completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD. Additionally, she holds a master’s degree in affective neuroscience from Stanford University, and studied behavioral genetics at Harvard University.
Dr. Sweeton resides in the greater Kansas City area, where she owns a group private practice, Kansas City Mental Health Associates. She is a past president of the Oklahoma Psychological Association and holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She is the president-elect of the Greater Kansas City Psychological Association. Dr. Sweeton offers psychological services to clients in Oklahoma, Kansas, and internationally, and is a sought-after trauma and neuroscience expert who has trained thousands of mental health professionals in her workshops.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Sweeton is in private practice. She has an employment relationship with the Oklahoma City VAMC. Dr. Sweeton receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Jennifer Sweeton has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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