Haley Peckham's Keynote - Better Days – Baba Brinkman Lyric Video

At the 23rd Victorian Collaborative Mental Health Nursing Conference (The Collab), Keynote Speaker and CentreMHN team member Dr Haley Peckham presented on Neuroplastic Wrap: The non-pathologising, ecological alternative to diagnostic labels.

Haley discussed mental suffering can often be diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder or pathology, but in many cases, it can also be interpreted as a healthy brain's adaptive "fast life history" response to childhood trauma, which sets up a natural expectation of future adversity. Neuroplasticity and therapy can help the brain to re-learn to expect, and produce, better days.

Haley presented this lyric video performed by Bada Brinkman

Further reading:

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/06/our-brains-response-to-trauma-is-adaptive-not-pathological-researcher-argues/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1103718/full