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EFT by Ali, Barbosa, Ph.D.
The self is always under construction in relationships. How I regulate my emotions My behavior – what I do Secure Attachment View of Self: Capable, Trustworthy, Loveable View of Other: Trustworthy, Available, Safe Emotional fitness Flexibility: Health is described as the ability to fully listen to and engage inner experience, to trust this…
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Resources for Treatment and Management of PTSD
Resources for Treatment and Management of PTSD Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research in PTSD Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, 1996 Sensory input can automatically stimulate hormonal secretions and influence the activation of brain regions involved in attention and memory. Reminders of the past automatically activate certain neurobiological responses = trauma survivors are vulnerable to react…
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Emotional Dysregulation
Key Deficits of Affect Regulation: Awareness of own emotional and/or arousal states Capacity to read cues of others Expression Capacity to safely express emotions Communication of emotional experience Modulation Capacity to self-soothe, calm Lack of connection between emotional states Medical Intervention (SSRI’s, Mood stabilizers) Goal: Awareness of internal experience Integration of experience—affect, body experience, thoughts,…
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD diagnostic features:The essential feature of PTSD is the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor involving direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one’s physical integrity, or witnessing ….. The person’s response must involve intense fear, helplessness, or…
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The Interpersonal Nature of the Mind
The ideas behind interpersonal psychology (Daniel Siegel, M.D.) are that as we develop, if we have an ideal environment, we will be allowed to develop our own unique personality, which allow all parts of our unique processing and perspective to cluster and link to each other.