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Over the past decades, the growing synergy between the innovative research methods developed through Neuroscience and their clinical application has significantly contributed to the extraordinary advances that have been made in the field of Psychotherapy. If on the one side, neuroscientific research has become more and more sophisticated and precise, thus allowing experts to identify new functions and interactions between different areas of the human brain, clinical studies, on the other side, have been exploring both its fields of application and the most effective interventions to deal with psychopathology and enhance psychophysical well-being.
The increasingly more profound knowledge about traumas and their effects on the human brain, behaviours, emotions, cognitions, and social interactions is not only broadening the horizons of both research studies and clinical studies. Still, it also highlights the crucial importance of conceiving the human being as a whole due to the combination of temperament, life events, genetic predisposition, and cultural and educational heritage.
At present, trauma-focused clinical interventions have the opportunity to consolidate and validate their effectiveness based on the most recent discoveries in the field of Neuroscience. From the intergenerational transmission of traumatic events described by Epigenetics to the brain modifications induced by repairing therapeutic interventions, the correlation between clinical and research studies is now opening the way to unexplored treatment outcomes, thus increasing the number of possibilities to heal psychopathology. CONGRESS ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA: Effective Clinical Interventions and Research
The twelfth edition of the well-known “Attachment and Trauma” Congress – “Attachment and Trauma: Effective Clinical Interventions and Research” – will provide the opportunity to integrate the most innovative aspects characterising research studies in the field of Neuroscience and the most effective clinical interventions, with the aim of understanding, in a more and more precise way, how traumas can affect the healthy development of both individuals and communities, as well as how to repair traumatic experiences in a deep, long-lasting way.
After two years marked by the difficulties caused by the pandemic, the “Attachment and Trauma” Congress finally returns to Rome: several internationally well-known Experts will take the stage of the stunning Auditorium Antonianum, within walking distance of the Colosseum. Their lectures will give a complete and varied overview of the most advanced neuroscientific research studies and the most effective clinical interventions in trauma therapy and the treatment of attachment disturbances.
The video recordings will be on sale on ISC website and accessible without time limits.
Besides being a significant opportunity for professional development, the twelfth edition of the “Attachment and Trauma” Congress will also be a valuable moment to share with other mental health professionals from all over the world. If you are fed up with online courses and feel the need to meet your colleagues in person to have an enriching and engaging learning experience, then join us in Rome!
Self-harm and suicidal ideation in patients with complex dissociative disorders: attachment, shame and dysregulation
Patients with trauma-related complex dissociative disorders usually suffer from many symptoms, including depression and suicidality, both of which may be accompanied by severe self-harming behaviours. These symptoms may be the main presenting problem, with the underlying dissociative disorder often not even identified. They may put the therapeutic relationship under enormous pressure when the therapist needs rescue. This presentation will explore reasons for self-harm and suicidal behaviour in such patients, transference and countertransference, and ways to help the client stop PROGRAM these behaviours. Self-harm and suicidality may be related to different factors such as shame, abandonment, despair, a wish to be seen and understood by others, fear to realise what has happened in the past, and/or a way of coping with unbearable feelings. Treatment often includes medication for depression, somatic approaches, and cognitive behavioural approaches that are often used to explore and change related negative cognitions. However, the more complex the dissociation of the personality, the fewer patients may benefit from these techniques, as emotions and cognitions are often “held” by different dissociative parts of the personality and are perceived to be ego-dystonic. Specific interventions, especially those using imagery, will be highlighted so that treatment of dissociation becomes an integral part of standard-of-care approaches to serious self-harm and suicidality in traumatised individuals.
The collaborative change model: a relational model that harnesses the natural process of change
No two traumas are identical: the dynamics of interpersonal trauma and violence vary from situation to situation. Yet there are some common variables. One of the key ingredients in complex developmental trauma is that it is embedded within a relationship that should have had healthy protective attachment. The traumatic events result in an experience of betrayal in the attached relationship. This accounts for much of the fight, flight, freeze and submission, difficulties of our clients. And the myriad of difficulties account for the abundance of innovative interventions and treatment approaches that have been developed in recent years. The presentation will present the Collaborative Change Model; a practical three-tiered, cyclical strength-based meta blueprint; CCM is a relational contextual model. The CCM is a blueprint that can be applied to all the models of trauma treatment as it harnesses the universal recursive nature of change. We will explore the repetitive cycles of trauma and will learn the Collaborative Change framework that utilizes the cycles of change when working in any and all treatment modalities.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and traumatic attachment (online lecture).)
EMDR therapy is an evidence based therapeutic approach for treatment of trauma. The Adaptive Information Processing Model, which guides EMDR therapy posits that present symptoms result from distressing experiences that are maladaptively stored in the brain, unable to be fully processed and integrate within the wider memory network (Shapiro, 1995, 2001, 2018). EMDR therapy is an eightphase method that involves processing the past memories underlying present problems, present triggers, and installing a future template for adaptive behavior. EMDR can be utilized to not only treat major trauma but also the ubiquitous “seemingly small” but quite impactful memories (e.g. mother’s angry look, asking dad for help but he ignores me). Such memories underlie negative beliefs such as “I am not good enough”, “I’m not loveable”, “I am powerless”, or “I am not safe”. Disorganized attachment occurs when the caregiver is both the source of safety and terror, and underlies complex PTSD and dissociative disorders (Brown and Elliot, 2018). Not only does the trauma (abuse or neglect) have to be treated, but also the traumatic attachment to the abuser. EMDR can be utilized to treat both the trauma and the traumatic attachment. This workshop will present basic principles of EMDR therapy, and illustrate how traumatic attachment can be treated with clients who have been sexually abused. Video presentations of sessions will illustrate treatment principles.
Psychosomatic self-regulation psychotherapy
Psychosomatic Self-Regulation Psychotherapy is an integrative, body-oriented and trauma-informed therapeutic approach that integrates the dynamic model with the cognitive-behavioral and psychosomatic ones. It aims to heal dysregulated emotions (Mind) and sensations (Body), by promoting mentalization and psychosomatic regulation, in order to increase the patient’s autonomy in the relationship with the Self, as well as in their interpersonal and attachment relationships.
The patient’s emotional dysregulation originates from the unprocessed traumas that they experienced in their primary relationships system. These traumas are then unconsciously perpetrated and lead to the development of behavioral schemas and dysfunctional reflexes – even bodily ones (fight-flightfreeze) – in the patient’s here-and-now, as well as to the coaction to repeat.
Psychosomatic Self-Regulation Psychotherapy aims to transform the patient’s dysfunctional emotional states and the negative feelings they experience in the present moment (self-regulation), by replacing them with more functional ones supporting their wellbeing and the development of new interpersonal skills related to social engagement. All this allows the patient to gradually shift from a closed relational system to an open and safe one. The clinical process of emotional and psychosomatic regulation is a relational process; the latter aims to promote the patient’s growth (body-mind insight) and is mainly based on therapist’s interventions to regulate the patient’s emotional and psychosomatic states while building a therapeutic alliance and repairing ruptures.
Transforming trauma in children and adolescents: an embodied approach to somatic regulation, trauma processing and attachment-building
Children and adolescents with histories of complex developmental trauma challenge the most seasoned trauma therapists, as well as their families, schools, and communities, with their behavioral and affect dysregulation. Sensory integration occupational therapy offered a team of trauma therapists inviting and effective tools for regulation and an alternative lens on the hyperactivity and the shut-down states of the traumatized child. With this new method, and a specially designed room, co- and self-regulation was accelerated within therapy sessions. Then, children and youth, with proper support, spontaneously expressed and processed traumatic experience in both fully embodied and symbolic forms, surprising therapists with the organic way this showed up in a session. Furthermore, the child’s accessibility for social engagement, a sense of connection with the therapist, and ready opportunities for co-creating new rhythms of engagement through sensory motor play facilitated the work of developing a ‘safe enough’ relationship. A case study using videotape of therapy sessions in such a trauma therapy with a young child will illustrate these therapeutic processes. Videotape is an essential tool for the therapist using this model of trauma therapy that relies on regulation through body-based, rather than verbal or symbolic processes. However, it has also provided a form of clinical data that suggests a hypothesis that so-called ‘bottom-up’, or somatic, regulation is the neurobiological precondition for the regulation of behavior, affect, cognition, and a core sense of self.
Aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotion is the epicenter of traumatic suffering, it is what brings our patients to seek help. Undoing aloneness is key to being able to process the overwhelming emotions of trauma. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), one of the fastest growing approaches to working with attachment trauma, has developed rich, creative, systematic interventions for doing precisely that: i.e., undoing the patient’s aloneness and working dyadically to heal emotional suffering. Unlike psychopathology-based models, AEDP roots itself in a transformational change-based theory of therapeutic action. A four-state model of the transformational process, and a descriptive state-specific transformational phenomenology guide moment-to-moment clinical decision making. AEDP methodology has patient and therapist emotionally engaged, closely following the edge of emergent relational and transformational experience, all the while processing trauma. AEDP is fearless in working with the experience of the patient-therapist attachment, moment-to-moment tracking it and processing it rigorously. Crucial to rewiring relational experiences, are AEDP’s relational metaprocessing techniques for systematically processing in-session relational experiences They are used to expand relational capacity, and deepen receptive affective experience of feeling safe, seen, helped, and changed. Using videotaped material from actual psychotherapy sessions, Diana Fosha will demonstrate relational metaprocessing in clinical action with a trauma patient. She will show how to experientially work with in-session relational experience as systematically and as deeply as we do with other kinds of emotional experiences. The goal is to help patients stay with and experience the receptive affective experiences of feeling seen, loved, cared for, and delighted in that emerge from the work. By engaging in relational processing and working directly with felt experiences of attachment and intersubjectivity, the AEDP therapist foster new experiences of the emotion-in-connection that re-wire internal working models, and support the emergence of a vital vibrant and relationally engaged self. Empirical findings from research on the transdiagnostic effectiveness of AEDP based on over 75 therapeutic dyads within AEDP’s worldwide PRN (Practitioner-Researcher Network) will be woven into this presentation.
Virtual reality goes to war: advances in the prevention, assessment, and treatment of post-traumatic stress (online lecture)
War is perhaps one of the most challenging situations that a human being can experience. The physical, emotional, cognitive and psychological demands of a combat environment place enormous stress on even the best-prepared military personnel. Numerous reports indicate that the incidence of posttraumatic stress (PTS) in returning OEF/OIF military personnel is creating a significant healthcare challenge. This situation has served to motivate research on how to better develop and disseminate evidence-based treatments for PTS and other psychosocial conditions. In this regard, Virtual Reality delivered exposure therapy for PTS is currently being used with initial reports of positive outcomes. This presentation will detail how virtual reality applications are being designed and implemented across various points in the military deployment cycle to prevent, identify and treat combat and sexual traumarelated PTS in OIF/OEF Service Members and Veterans. I will also present recent work being done with artificially intelligent virtual humans that serve in the role as “Virtual Patients” for clinical training of healthcare providers in both military and civilian settings and as online healthcare guides for breaking down barriers to care. The projects in these areas that will be presented have been developed at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, a U.S. Army University Affiliated Research Center, and will pro- vide a diverse overview of how virtual reality is being used to deliver exposure therapy, assess PTSD and cognitive function, provide stress resilience training prior to deployment and its use in breaking down barriers to care. The talk will conclude with a discussion of how the urgency of war has provided the context and funding for the advancement of these technologies that will soon translate to civilian needs.
Mindful interbeing mirror therapy: beyond the recovery from trauma
The study of human personality has shed light on the undeniable impact that attachment relationships, as well as early traumatic experiences – and the consequent dissociation – have on the construction of the Self. Psychological suffering can be analyzed from two different, but interrelated, perspectives: the level of integration of the Self, on the one side, and the individual’s ability to interact with the external world, on the other side. Starting from this premise, identifying and defining the various parts of the client’s personality – especially if the latter has experienced trauma and starts therapy with severe symptoms – is crucially important. As a matter of fact, Psychotherapy is more and more conceived as a series of interventions aimed at integrating the dissociative parts of the client’s personality, in order to support them building a unified Self. At the same time, the therapeutic relationship plays a central role in the treatment of the dissociation caused by early relational traumas, regardless from their seriousness. Mindful Interbeing Mirror Therapy (MIMT) is a completely innovative therapeutic approach based on the use of a mirror within the therapeutic setting, which is placed in front of both the client and the therapist, thus allowing them to interact through their reflected image. The validity of this unique modality of intervention is supported by its theoretical underpinnings, which include not only the most recent research studies in the field of Neuroscience, but also a series of effective clinical studies. The construction of the Self and the individual’s relational reality – starting from the very beginning of the identity construction process, that is the ability to identify themselves in front of a mirror, to the capacity to acknowledge the other’s emotional states – are two parallel processes characterizing each human being’s development. Therefore, Mirror Therapy can be seen as a unique combination of therapeutic interventions helping the client reconstructing an integrated Self, while at the same time working on the relationship with the other. Over the past five years, Mindful Interbeing Mirror Therapy has been studied in depth and a specific procedure of intervention has been created; additionally, thanks to MIMT, therapists have discovered a new and extremely accelerated way to connect with the client, as well as an effective approach to help the latter integrating their inner parts through a deep, transformative selfcompassion. Finally, yet importantly, the theoretical and application aspects emerging from clinical practice offer new opportunities of intervention that Research can keep supporting and validating.
Mindfulness and compassion in trauma treatment: fitting the practice to the person
Mindfulness-based psychotherapy is the most popular new treatment approach in the last decade-and for good reason. Mindfulness and compassion practices hold great promise not only for our own personal development, but also as remarkably powerful tools to augment virtually every form of psychotherapy. They are not, however, one-size-fits-all remedies. Researchers are now differentiating the effects of focused attention, open monitoring, lovingkindness, compassion, and equanimity practices. These practices need to be tailored to fit the needs of particular individuals-and this presentation will show you how. This presentation will explore important clinical decisions to consider when deciding when and if to introduce different practices into treatment of individuals with different needs. Once you understand the components of mindfulness and compassion practices and how they work to alleviate psychological distress, you will be able to creatively adapt them to meet the needs of diverse people and conditions, especially those with unresolved trauma histories. You will learn the contraindications for various techniques, as well as their potential psychotherapeutic benefits.
How to become a trauma wise practitioner when working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse
Survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) are commonly terrified of closeness and intimacy and can be mistrustful of attachment as they strive to protect themselves either through excessive independence and self-reliance, or dependency making it difficult to engage in the therapeutic relationship. This presentation will highlight the factors that inhibit attachment such as the trauma bond, dissociation, shame, and fear of abandonment. The enduring hyper or hypo activation of the attachment systems and concomitant trauma symptoms and relationship difficulties requires practitioners to be more mindful of the impact of trauma on attachment, the developing sense of self and future relationships. In order to become trauma wise practitioners, clinicians will benefit from adopting the Power Threat Meaning Framework and the fundamental principles of Trauma Informed Practice. This will enable clinicians to view the impact of CSA through the lens of trauma and focus on ‘what happened to the child’ rather than ‘what is wrong with the survivor’ allowing them to view symptoms as adaptations to living under prolonged and inescapable threat. The emphasis in this presentation is on how practitioners can use Trauma Informed Practice and the Three Phase Model of Trauma Recovery as a scaffold to support their preferred therapeutic model to manage trauma symptoms and minimize the replication of power and control dynamics and relational inhibitors in the therapeutic relationship to minimize distancing and facilitate connection. Equipped with this, they will be more able to create a respectful, consistent, collaborative, and non-hierarchical therapeutic space in which they will be able to reverse the threat and power dynamics associated with trauma to allow survivors to reconnect to self and others, and restore relational worth.
Navigating the quest for connection: a polyvagal guided approach (online lecture)
The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living powerfully shaping our experiences of safety and influencing our capacity for connection. Polyvagal Theory provides a guide to the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviors and beliefs and an understanding of the body to brain pathways that give birth to our personal stories of safety and survival. In this presentation we will use a Polyvagal roadmap to explore ways to listen with curiosity and compassion to emerging autonomic states and answer the essential question, “What does the nervous system need in this moment to find safety in connection?”.
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Attachment and Trauma: Effective Clinical Interventions and Research
Suzette A. Boon, Mary Jo Barrett, Jonathan Baylin, Roger Solomon, Vincenzo Caretti, Elizabeth Warner, Diana Fosha, Skip Rizzo, Alessandro Carmelita & Marina Cirio, Ronald D. Siegel, Christiane Sanderson, Deb Dana
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