Join Linda virtually as she presents for the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work on November 16th. Registration details coming soon!
This interactive workshop is designed for social workers and other therapists who wish to enhance their knowledge of working with bottom-up strategies to support their clients with histories of complex developmental trauma who may/may not identify as neurodivergent.
We will start with the impact of acute and chronic perceptions of threat on the nervous system. We’ll look at how the psyche adapts to create future-oriented survival strategies that guide responses in the present, how that turns into autonomic nervous system dysregulation, and how it can present in various DSM diagnoses. You’ll gain a perspective that depathologizes and destigmatizes the symptoms and experiences of clients so you can reframe the ways in which nervous system dysregulation may be expressed as mental health symptoms.
We will then pivot towards numerous, simple, effective, practical ways to apply this knowledge to bring stabilization, resourcing and regulation - for yourself as well as for your clients.
The second segment of this course will cover the five common sensory systems and the three hidden sensory systems. We’ll discuss sensory differences and preferences, Sensory Processing Disorder, and the confluence between sensory system differences, ADHD, Autism and complex developmental trauma. You’ll have a working knowledge of sensory differences, the intersection of trauma responses, and innate differences in neuro-processing.
In this program, you will learn to:
Identify eight physiological responses to perceived overwhelming distress
Distinguish between reactive survival-oriented responses and proactive preventative survival-oriented responses
Identify ten holistic causes of stress, anxiety and depression
Identify one effective client-friendly metaphor to illustrate how trauma triggers become encoded into the brain
Identify at least eight DSM diagnoses that correlate with various expressions of autonomic nervous system dysregulation
Identify the five main sensory systems and the three hidden sensory system
Identify at least three expressions of sensory seeking and of sensory avoidance for each of the sensory systems
Identify at least three strategies for sensory seekers and for sensory avoiders for each of the sensory systems
Identify the areas of clinical nuance and complexity when it comes of the confluence of Sensory Processing Differences, ADHD, Autism and complex developmental trauma
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