LIVE WEBINAR: The Traumatized Brain
Presenter: Dr Sarah Ullman
Date: Coming in March, 2019, Stay tuned!
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: $49
Bonuses: This webinar includes downloadable Worksheets and access to the private Community Forum.
Who Should Attend: This webinar is for a general audience with or without any science background, and assumes no prior biological knowledge of any kind, and is equally appropriate for those in the healthcare professions.
Materials Used: A diverse set of learning tools will be utilized that include video clips, animated slides, engaging (non-graded!) quizzes and polls, on-going private chat forums on the website long after the webinar has ended, and colorful downloadable worksheets to accompany and enhance the webinar experience.
Description: This webinar focuses on what happens inside the brain when a person is psychologically traumatized. Many of us already know what it feels like afterward; sometimes sudden and often unexplained fear toward people, places, or things that were never before problematic, sleep problems and insomnia - having trouble falling asleep, waking up in the middle of the night, or unable to get out of bed, experiencing an unusual feeling of things seeming unreal or feeling distant and remote from one's immediate surroundings, having scary nightmares and/or night terrors, experiencing difficulty with trust, attachment, and intimacy, feeling angry and irritable, eating too much or not enough, problems with one's memory, seeming to forget the simplest things, feeling exhausted after little or no particular physical effort, lack of enjoyment from things that previously were pleasurable, wanting to isolate from the outside world, and alternating between feeling numb and feeling completely overwhelmed.
So what happens inside the brain that brings about these troublesome symptoms? Why do some people fare better than others during times of extreme stress? What is arousal dysregulation, who gets it and is it treatable? Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) simply an inevitability after a traumatic event? In this Live Webinar you will learn what happens to the brain when it has been suddenly exposed to a psychological trauma. You will learn the various factors that can predispose a person to a traumatic disorder such as PTSD, and other factors that include personal resilience, previous traumatic events, whether there has been early childhood trauma, history of mental illness, family coping style, and a host of other factors that can either impact and impede a traumatic event or help insulate and protect an individual from the ravages of psychological trauma.
Upon completion of this webinar you will learn:
- to recognize the signs and symptoms of psychological trauma and differentiate them from PTSD and C-PTSD
- why some people are more susceptible then others to the after-effects of psychological trauma
- what areas of the brain are effected and why
- how early childhood trauma, even without physical or sexual involvement, can cause significant neurological and
psychological impairment
- how early childhood trauma highjacks certain areas of brain development
- how psychological trauma impacts important functioning such as cognition and intelligence
- how psychological trauma can cause the problems referred to arousal dysregulation
Presenter Info: With a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Dr Ullman has been educating, researching, diagnosing and treating individuals, couples, groups, families, and first responders for trauma and addiction-based disorders for 30 years, and has devoted both her research efforts and clinical work to the diagnoses and treatment specific to disorders of arousal dysregulation. This population includes children and adults that have experienced early childhood trauma such as sexual abuse, neglect, and/or violence. Unfortunately and through no fault of their own, a great many of these children, unable to self-regulate their emotions secondary to their abuse, develop issues in adulthood such as substance (drug and alcohol) and process (sex, food, self-harm, gambling) addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), explosive uncontrollable anger, and personality distortions that may include Narcissistic (NPD) and Borderline (BPD) personality disorders.
In addition to teaching at various colleges and universities, Dr Ullman is an active emergency disaster responder for military and governmental agencies when disaster strikes, and maintains a private practice in the Philadelphia (mainline) Pennsylvania area of the United States. In addition to the local office, a considerable portion of her practice includes a national and international clientele via HIPAA/HITECH-compliant telemental health video web-therapy around the world.
Please join Dr Ullman for an exciting, entertaining, and educational 60-minute multimedia live webinar wherein you will learn about the impact of psychological trauma and how the brain is altered without ever having been physically touched. You will learn about these issues and more from one of the foremost Cognitive-Behavioral and neuroscience-based experts in the field of Complex Trauma (C-PTSD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Addiction from the clinician that has been researching, speaking, diagnosing, and treating those that have been impacted by psychological trauma for more than 30 years.
Everyone who signs up for this webinar will be sent a free replay, just in case you were unable to attend the live event.
