In Service To Families, Children & The Courts
—featuring Dr. Allan N. Schore,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral
Sciences,
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
January 12-13, 2007
California State Univeristy, Chico campus
9am-4:30pm each day, Bell Memorial Union Auditorium
Children in Trauma explores the multifaceted issues surrounding
children who experience trauma in their lives. The 2007 conference is our
fifth annual presentation, and we are pleased to feature Dr. Allan N. Schore,
whose pioneering integrative work has almost single-handedly moved contemporary
theory from its traditional emphasis on “left brain,” verbal, and cognitive
processes to its current interest in “right brain” emotional and relational
processes.
Conference Description:
In his seminal volume Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self (Erlbaum,
1994) and two recent books Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the
Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self (WW
Norton, 2003) Dr. Allan Schore has documented the significant advances
that have been made in our understanding of early human development and
in the application of this developmental information to models of psychopathogenesis
and psychotherapy. In this interactive workshop, he will initially discuss
current models of the neurobiology of attachment, detailing the positive
impact of early interactively regulated affective communications on the
organization of the infant's developing right brain, which for the rest
of the life span is dominant for the processing of emotions and intersubjectivity.
Dr. Schore will then describe the negative impact of relational trauma
on the developmental trajectory of the right brain and the origins of pathological
dissociation. He will also model the intergenerational transmission of
a predisposition to attachment trauma-related psychopathologies of self-regulation,
including posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder
in both children and adults. Regulation theory will then be applied to
the psychotherapy of such patients, emphasizing interactive regulation within
the therapeutic alliance as a major mechanism of treatment.
Join Us for Children in Trauma 2007 and You Will……
• Understand the underlying neurobiological regulatory structures and functions that predict secure attachment patterns.
• Learn how a history of early relational trauma severely alters attachment dynamics and right brain neurobiology, and generates a predisposition for pathological dissociation.
• Learn how this knowledge can be used clinically to treat attachment disorders and patients with a history of early abuse and/or neglect.
• Understand how this regulation model applies to the attachment relationship embedded in the therapeutic alliance, including clinical implications for working with nonverbal transference-countertransference interactions between patient and therapist.
Allan N. Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department
of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of
Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.
He is author of the seminal volume Affect Regulation and the Origin of
the Self, and the recently published Affect Dysregulation and Disorders
of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self (WW Norton).
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of his work he has published extensively
in the neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology,
pediatric, and trauma literatures and is on the editorial staff or reviewer
of 18 journals including the Journal of Neuroscience, Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Australian
and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Attachment & Human Development,
and the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Dr. Schore's activities as
a clinician-scientist span his practice of psychotherapy over the last
4 decades to his current involvement in neuroimaging research on borderline
personality disorder and on the neurobiology of attachment. He is a member
of the Commission on Children at Risk, and is a co-author for the Report
on Children and Civil Society, "Hardwired
to Connect."
Children in Trauma 2007 Conference Agenda
Friday:
• Advances in Regulation Theory: Attachment Neurobiology, Relational Trauma
and its Consequences
• Current psychoneurobiological models of attachment
• Rapid communication and regulation of nonverbal affects within attachment dyads
• Optimal early development of the right brain implicit self
Infantile relational trauma, pathological dissociation and the aetiology of severe personality disorders
• Common psychoneurobiological mechanisms of Borderline Personality • Disorders and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders
• Early right brain attachment trauma and the genesis of somatisation and psychosomatic disorders
• Applications of regulation theory to conservation biology
Saturday:
• Advances in Regulation Theory: Effective Psychotherapeutic Treatment
• Updates of clinical applications of attachment and intersubjectivity to right brain processes of psychotherapy
• Beneath the words - nonconscious right brain communications of facial expression, prosody and gesture within therapeutic alliance
• Empathy – neurobiology and central role in effective psychotherapy
• Working with bodily-based transference and counter-transference communications and projective identification
• Dissociation, hypoaraousal, and severe depressive disorders
• Interactive affect regulation as a basic mechanism of the therapeutic process
• Neuropsychoanalytic model of clinical intuition
• Changes in brain/mind/body in effective psychotherapeutic treatment
Who Should Attend
- Psychologists
- Social workers
- Counselors
- Psychiatrists
- Psychoanalysts
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Mental Healthcare Providers
- Educators
- Attorneys
- Law Enforcement Professionals
- Mediators
- Child Custody Evaluators
- Behavioral Health Professionals
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Emergency Responders
- Children's Advocates
In addition to learning from a nationally recognized scholar and practitioner,
you will walk away from this conference with an array of professional contacts
and practical tools. The conference sponsors, presenter, exhibitors, and
participants all bring with them a variety of experiences, ideas, theories,
programs, and techniques to create an interdisciplinary, kaleidoscopic approach
for serving the needs of our most vulnerable children: children in trauma.
Conference Exhibitors
Publishers, public service agencies, and other resource providers will
be on hand to share information. Exhibits will be open from 8am-4:30pm
daily.
Join us to discover a wide array of information and creative ideas to address
the needs of children in trauma.
Continuing Education Credit
Participants may earn 12 hours of BBSE (Provider PCE 799), BRN (Provider
00656), MCEP (Provider CAL123), MCLE, and CME continuing education credit.
Sponsors
This conference is sponsored by Butte County Superior Court Family Court
Services, the Butte County Bar Association, and Enloe Medical Center.
Time
9am-4:30pm Friday, January 12, and Saturday, January 13, 2007
Location: CSU, Chico campus, Bell Memorial Union Auditorium
Enrollment Information
$299 individual; $259 each for groups of four
or more from the same organization.
Course Number: RCED944N
Fees include continental breakfasts, lunches, and materials.
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