Working with people with a trauma history: Understanding neuroplasticity can help in everyday practice - Dr Haley Peckham
This workshop has now reached capacity.
How research into the neuro-plastic properties of the brain sheds new light on human responses to complex relational trauma.
Many people who access mental health services have complex trauma arising from early experiences. These experiences may include parentification, enmeshment or invalidation as well as emotional, physical and sexual abuses and neglect. The brains and nervous systems of infants and children are powerfully influenced by early relationships and this course seeks to illustrate ways that we neurobiologically adapt to our early experiences. The same property of the brain that allows it to be so profoundly affected by early experiences can be harnessed in the service of recovery from complex relational trauma. Mental health workers can utilise this in their everyday interactions with consumers.
What will participants learn in this one day workshop?
- How human experiences - both positive and negative - impact upon the brain's plasticity and the body's regulatory systems
- How a better understanding of the brain's neuro-plastic properties can improve the way we understand mental health and illness
- Ways to re-frame mental distress and behavioural symptoms as the brain's 'best effort' to adapt to intolerable early experiences
- Ways in which mental health workers can create conditions that maximise the healing power of neuro-plasticity, within the context of their everyday practice
This workshop is open to nurses working within Victorian Area Mental Health Services.
Time: Registration 8.45am for a 9.00am start until 4.30pm
Location: Room 102, Level 1 780 Elizabeth Street, Parkville.
Getting there: University Carparking and Public Transport information can be found here. There is quite a lot of construction in the area at the moment with Metro Tunnel works. Please allow extra time.
Please note catering is not provided for this training. There are plenty of local cafes, takeaway food and coffee kiosks in the area during break times.