Jennifer Sweeton - Neuroscience for Clinicians: Powerful Brain-Centric Interventions to Help Your Clients Overcome Anxiety

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Faculty:: Jennifer Sweeton
Duration:: 5 Hours 41 Minutes
Format:: Audio and Video
Copyright:: Sep 08, 2016

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Tour through the Brain: What clinicians need to know from neurons to structures, to pathways, to networks
- See brain structures in 3-D
- How the brain processes top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal
- The interplay of mental health and key nervous system structures, functions, and pathways
- Work with implicit and explicit memories
- How key pathways inform clinical interventions:
  - Pain Pathway
  - Reward Pathway
  - Fear-Stress Pathway
Nervous System Networks and the Social Brain: We are wired for attunement
- Default Mode (DMN) and Task Mode Networks (TMN)
- Healing attachment
- Activate mirror neurons bottom-up
Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis: How the brain can change
- Three timeframes for change
- Neuroplasticity at the synapse
- How to foster neuroplasticity in clients
- Neuroplasticity in action: Exercise your brain!
Practice Interventions for Healing: Bottom-up, top-down, and horizontal
- Sensory Awareness
- Meditation and Mindfulness
- Body Work
- Unconscious and the DMN
- The Mind-Body Link
Integrate the Brain into Treatments
- Stress
  - How stress alters the nervous system
  - Calm the stress/fear pathway
  - Develop alert/relaxed attention for better coping
- Trauma
  - Foster confidence with yoga
  - Malleability of memories and clinical implications for treating trauma
  - Reconsolidate implicit memories
- Anxiety
  - The anxious brain reaction
  - Work top down/ bottom up/ horizontally
  - Calm the limbic system bottom up with movement
  - Soothe the insula through meditative sensory awareness
  - Deconstruct sensations mindfully
- Substance Abuse
  - Brain areas involved in addictions
  - Rewire the reward pathway
  - Detach from pleasure and pain
  - Prefrontal connections and judgment
- Depression
- The depressed brain pattern
- Effects of yoga and meditation on the nervous system
- Regulate the limbic system: the prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus and mindfulness
- Unify real and ideal
- Foster joyful relationship through mirror neurons
- Develop compassion and gratitude

6 Principles for Incorporating the Brain into your Therapy

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Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D., M.S., M.A. Related seminars and products: 12

Organizational Consultant, Clinical Psychologist

Mind Works Professional Education Inc

Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and internationally-recognized expert on trauma, anxiety, and the neuroscience of mental health. Dr. Sweeton has been practicing EMDR for nearly a decade and has treated a variety of populations using EMDR and other memory reconsolidation approaches, including combat veterans, individuals with PTSD and complex trauma, and those suffering from treatment-resistant anxiety.

She completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD. Additionally, she holds a master’s degree in affective neuroscience from Stanford University, and studied behavioral genetics at Harvard University.

Dr. Sweeton resides in the greater Kansas City area, where she owns a group private practice, Kansas City Mental Health Associates. She is a past president of the Oklahoma Psychological Association and holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She is the president-elect of the Greater Kansas City Psychological Association. Dr. Sweeton offers psychological services to clients in Oklahoma, Kansas, and internationally, and is a sought-after trauma and neuroscience expert who has trained thousands of mental health professionals in her workshops.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jennifer Sweeton is in private practice. She has an employment relationship with the Oklahoma City VAMC. Dr. Sweeton receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Jennifer Sweeton has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.