Description
Bessel van der Kolk – The Traumatic Impact of a Global Pandemic and How it will Shape Patient Care in the Future
- Faculty:
- Bessel van der Kolk
- Duration:
- 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jun 05, 2020
Description
Watch Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The New York Times #1 bestselling author The Body Keeps The Score and learn critically important) approaches for your trauma clients during this anxious time.
For over 40 years, Bessel has investigated how trauma impacts both the body and the brain to find strategies that help patients feel grounded and safe.
Dr. van der Kolk will give you specific and practical approaches to use with your clients that address creating connections and activities to share with clients that keep them attached and out of re-experiencing past traumas.
Outline
The pandemic, leadership and integrity
Collectively coping with calamity
Evidence-based techniques to reduce re-living past traumas
Faculty
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Related seminars and products: 58
Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.
Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR.
He is founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, and President of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific, and educational projects.
His 2014 #1 New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring – specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, somatically based therapies, EMDR, psychodrama, play, yoga, and other therapies.
Dr. van der Kolk is the past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at conferences, universities, and hospitals around the world.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Bessel van der Kolk is a professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Bessel van der Kolk has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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