Summary of Courtney Armstrong's Rethinking Trauma Treatment

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Rethinking Trauma Treatment is a book that provides you with the answers to the questions of how to best help your clients with their trauma, from the brain’s perspective. It provides you with practical strategies and focuses on what the best trauma therapy methods have in common.
#2 There are many techniques you can use to help clients regulate their emotions, and I have included them in the book. You will also learn why you are your most valuable tool when treating trauma.
#3 I was called to help a family member with road rage, and when I met with the couple, Dixon explained that he was always angry driving, and would often insult and threaten other drivers.
#4 Post-traumatic stress disorder is a disorder of memory integration between the three levels of our triune brain. It typically affects people who have been through a traumatic event, and it can cause them to be frozen in time, unable to move on.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• General officer
• Psychotherapy
• Psychology
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 17 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822511590
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Courtney Armstrong's Rethinking Trauma Treatment
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Rethinking Trauma Treatment is a book that provides you with the answers to the questions of how to best help your clients with their trauma, from the brain’s perspective. It provides you with practical strategies and focuses on what the best trauma therapy methods have in common.

#2

There are many techniques you can use to help clients regulate their emotions, and I have included them in the book. You will also learn why you are your most valuable tool when treating trauma.

#3

I was called to help a family member with road rage, and when I met with the couple, Dixon explained that he was always angry driving, and would often insult and threaten other drivers.

#4

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a disorder of memory integration between the three levels of our triune brain. It typically affects people who have been through a traumatic event, and it can cause them to be frozen in time, unable to move on.

#5

The thalamus is the first relay station between the brain and the body, and it is also involved in sensory processing. It helps to send sensory information from the body to the cerebral cortex. -> The human brain is essentially three brains in one that develops in stages from the inside out and bottom up. The reptilian brain supports our most basic survival needs, while the mammalian brain supports our social and emotional needs.

#6

The thalamus sits at the top of the brain stem and receives sensory input from both the external world and within our bodies. It acts like a gatekeeper, determining which sensory information is relevant and needs our conscious attention versus sensory information we can let fade into the background.

#7

The amygdala is located in the brain, and it is involved in emotional learning. It assesses the emotional significance of a stimulus and prompts the hypothalamus to tell the nervous system whether we should approach or avoid a stimulus based on past experiences.

#8

The cerebral cortex is the topmost outer layer of the human brain and is involved in higher-order thinking, language, consciousness, and emotion regulation. It is divided into right and left hemispheres. The right hemisphere is more directly connected to the emotional brain and specializes in spatial reasoning, nonverbal communication, and processing negative emotions.

#9

When the amygdala detects a threat to your survival, it signals the hypothalamus to release hormones that activate the fight-flight-freeze response via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.

#10

The emotional brain can overreact to things that aren’t actually life-threatening, because the brain forms implicit and explicit memories during emotionally stressful encounters. The amygdala encodes all the sensory information associated with the event into an implicit memory, which is a network of neurons that contains the felt, experiential part of a memory.

#11

The emotional brain, which stores implicit memories, doesn’t understand words. It processes information like an animal and can only learn through experience, association, and repetition.

#12

The emotional brain can be triggered by reminders of a traumatic experience, and this can lead to problems with regulating emotions, controlling behavioral impulses, focusing attention, making decisions, and planning for the future.

#13

The brain’s response to stress is to release hormones and neurochemicals that help it survive, but these same hormones and neurochemicals become toxic when they are chronically released.

#14

The prefrontal cortex is involved in working memory, planning, and intellectual insight. It is also involved in emotional regulation, decision making, and forming contextual, explicit memory. When adults with PTSD are exposed to reminders of traumatic events, there is significant deactivation of activity in the frontal lobes.

#15

The brains of adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder have similar impairments in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in top-down processing and perception of self in relation to the world.

#16

The brain is not only affected by trauma, but also by how we respond to it. For example, a study by Lanius et al. (2004) observed differences in bilateral processing among 24 subjects who had experienced a sexual assault or a motor vehicle accident. 11 of the 24 subjects did not meet the criteria for PTSD, whereas 13 did.

#17

The brain’s right hemisphere stores the neural pathways that shape our attachment schemas, and these are formed through the sensory and physical interactions we have with our caregivers.

#18

The polyvagal theory states that our nervous system is made up of two branches: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system connects to muscles in our limbs and is associated with arousal, alertness, and fight-or-flight states. The parasympathetic nervous system connects to organs below the diaphragm and is associated with relaxation, recovery, and rest and digest states.

#19

The ventral vagal system explains why a chipmunk’s body would shut down while being chased by a cat.