[Adta] Dr. Bessel van der Kolk International Trauma Conference

[Christine Hopkins]

The MeadowsThis is a wonderful line-up of senior talent.  Please note the inclusion of movement in several of the presentations.  If any of your attend, please post to this listserv and tell us about your experience there.  Best regards, Christine Hopkins 

  


The Meadows
Along with 

Justice Resource Institute

Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute

And 

NCTSN



Bring you the

18th Annual International Trauma Conference

Psychological Trauma:
Neuroscience, Attachment and Therapeutic Interventions



      Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, Medical Director, The Trauma Center
      June 20-23, 2007
      Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA 
     
       
     




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Pre-Conference Institutes:
Each pre-conference workshop meets all day Thursday, June 21, except workshop I, which meets all day Wednesday, June 20, and Thursday, June 21. Please choose one when registering.

June 20 - 21, 2007

Schedule:

      Registration
     8:00 - 8:30 AM
     
      Program
     8:30 - 5:15 PM
     
      Lunch (on your own) 
     12:30 - 2:00 PM
     

WORKSHOP I
Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC):
A Framework for Intervention with Complexly Traumatized Youth

Margaret Blaustein, PhD • Kristine M. Kinniburgh, LICSW
(This workshop meets two days – Wed., June 20, and Thurs., June 21)

A substantial percentage of children exposed to trauma have experienced multiple or prolonged exposures. This demands a flexible model of practice, embedded in a framework that can be adapted to the social environment in which the child is being treated. This workshop constitutes the official two-day formal training in ARC. It introduces a framework for intervention to address the multiple individual, familial, and systemic needs of this population, built around 10 key principles of intervention; for each principle, key concepts, educational information for providers and caregivers, specific tools for clinicians, and developmental considerations will be discussed. This workshop will combine didactic training, experiential activities, hands-on participation, and case application. Enrollment will be limited to 60 participants.

WORKSHOP II
The Neuroscience of Self-Awareness
and Self-Regulation

Ruth Lanius, MD • Jim Hopper, PhD • Sarah Lazar, PhD • Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD • Mohammed R. Milad, MD • Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD

This pre-conference workshop will address neuroscientific and clinical perspectives on mindfulness and self-regulation, based on presentations and video demonstrations. We will experientially demonstrate how people can play a role in their own physiological self-regulation with focused attention, movement and breathing. We will examine the psychological processes and brain circuits implicated in emotion dysregulation, emotional awareness and mindfulness, including the role of the medial prefrontal cortex in conditioned fear extinction, the neural underpinnings of positive and negative emotional experiences, and the effects of pharmacological interventions on brain activation. We will present the evidence that mindfulness meditation can alter the structure and function of key brain regions involved in emotional awareness and emotional regulation.

WORKSHOP III
Surviving the Aftermath:
A Sensorimotor Approach to the Wounds of War, Abuse and Attachment

Pat Ogden, PhD • Michael Broas, LMT

Through lecture, discussion, brief experiential exercises, and videotaped excerpts of therapy sessions, this workshop will explore working with the effects of abuse, combat, and torture. Participants will learn the body’s response to trauma, attachment relationships and developmental issues as well as how these experiences influence each other. The morning presentation will focus on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approaches to childhood trauma; she will be joined for the afternoon by Michael Broas, a Vietnam veteran whom she treated. Videotaped excerpts of Mr. Broas’ treatment will be used to illustrate interventions that help those who survived combat trauma integrate their experience. The very act of remembering commonly exacerbates symptoms; therefore, somatic interventions that facilitate a gradual exposure to the procedural components of the memory with a primary focus on somatic processing will be explored.

WORKSHOP IV
Treatment of Trauma and Eating Disorder, Sexual Compulsivity, and Self-Injury:
Integration of Treatment Models in Videotaped Segments

Mark Schwartz, ScD • Lori Galpern, MSW, LCSW

Dissociation is more related to early attachment problems than acute or chronic trauma. Eating disorder is very much an ego-state that “hijacks” the body, with concomitant poor self-differentiation. Many eating disorder patients come from families with no overt trauma. This workshop will review the presenters experience with eating disorder clients at an intensive inpatient setting, utilizing a Dissociative and attachment based model. Videotaped segments of therapy sessions will be integrated with theoretical and conceptual aspects of treatment, to provide a “hands-on” slant. Special emphasis will be placed on techniques to facilitate self-differentiation. Assessing outcome will also be discussed.

WORKSHOP V
Facilitating Intimacy with One’s Self:
An Introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy

Richard Schwartz, PhD

One central aspect of the Internal Family Systems model is the elaboration of the concept of “self.” This model necessitates the therapist’s exploration of their own internal experience. Helping clients' protective parts trust self-leadership catalyzes self-healing. The therapist needs to develop parallel self-awareness in order to assist clients in their self-reorganization. Successful psychotherapy of childhood trauma and neglect not only results in effective coping with the past, but also a transformation in the capacity for intimacy.

WORKSHOP VI
Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong for Self-Regulation and Grounding in Complex Trauma

Michael A. Grodin, MD • Derek Fulker, MA • Dan Kleiman • Robert Saper, MD, MPH • Lin Piwowarczyk, MD, MPH • Bill Robertson • Alan Dougall

This is an experiential workshop that will address and demonstrate the use of the Internal Energy Arts (Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Gung) as a way for trauma survivors to reconnect to their body, mind and spirit. The leader’s experience in caring for survivors of torture and refugee trauma will be highlighted as an example of how these exercises serve as self-regulatory and grounding techniques for the treatment of complex PTSD. Workshop participants will learn a simple “Turning the Wheel Chi Gung.” Tai Chi master teachers will provide individualized instruction.

WORKSHOP VII
Re-establishing Physical and Rhythmic Attunement to Internal Experiences After Traumatic Exposure

Steven Gross, MSW • Robert Macy, PhD • Ron Jones • Dick Johnson Macy, M.Ed, LMHC, ADTR • Anthony Toombs, M.Ed • Joseph Spinazzola, PhD • Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD

Traumatic, uncontrollable, events overwhelm survivors with a sense of impotence and immobilization. The visceral experience of helplessness and fear causes a core re-organization of the self. Transformation of self-perception through physical actions and attuned rhythms can help change victims into embodied survivors. This pre-conference workshop will explore the origins and step-wise evolution of the “interoceptive voice,” which acts as natural antidote to the experience of fear, helplessness and impotent rage. Participants will learn, through a series of experiential activities, how to work with voice, rhythms, movement, and postures. These activities will be applied to working with traumatized children 18 months to 3 years, 3 years to 6 years, 6 years to 10 years, pre-teens and teens.

WORKSHOP VIII
Pesso Boyden Psychotherapy:
Healing the Wounds of Past Deficits, Traumas and Ruptures in Family Networks

Albert Pesso, BA

Section I: Fundamentals of body-based techniques and their use in creation of new memories that ameliorate the effects of traumatic histories and maturational deficits. Interventions that provide limits for overwhelming emotional impulses to reverse the traumatic consequences of loss of self-control and help return a sense of meaning to life.

Section II: “Holes in Roles” presents a perspective on the compassionate response of children who have heard stories of traumatic histories of present and long dead family members and its paradoxical consequences. Live demonstrations applying PBSP “structures” will illustrate how to create new, need satisfying, symbolic memories for clients that help them handle the normal vicissitudes of life.


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June 22 - 23, 2007

Psychological Trauma:
Neuroscience, Attachment and Therapeutic Interventions

Course Description:
The study of psychological trauma has been accompanied by an explosion of knowledge about how experience shapes the central nervous system and the formation of the self. Developments in the neurosciences, in developmental psychopathology and in information processing have contributed to our understanding of how brain function is shaped by experience and that life itself can continually transform perception and biology. The study of trauma has probably been the single most fertile area within the disciplines of psychiatry and psychology in helping to develop a deeper understanding of the interrelationship among emotional, cognitive, social and biological forces that shape human development. Starting with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults, but expanding into early attachment and coping with overwhelming experiences in childhood, this endeavor has elucidated how certain experiences can “set” psychological expectations and biological selectivity. We have learned that most experience is automatically processed on a subcortical level, i.e. by “unconscious” interpretations, outside of awareness. Insight and understanding have only a limited influence on the operation of these subcortical processes. When addressing the problems of traumatized people who, in a myriad of ways, continue to react to current experience as a replay of the past, there is a need for therapeutic methods that do not exclusively depend on understanding and cognition. This course will present current research findings about how people’s brains, minds and bodies interpret traumatic experiences and how they regulate emotional and behavioral responses. We then will explore post-traumatic responses at different developmental levels, and the treatment implications of these findings. We will explore how affect regulation and the interpretation of innocuous stimuli as threats are the core issues that require interventions aimed at restoring active mastery and the capacity to focus on the present, rather than the past. Since traumatic memories often are dissociated and may be inaccessible to verbal recall or processing, close attention needs to be paid to the development of inner resources to deal with dysregulation and helplessness and the careful timing of the exploration and processing of the traumatic past.

Objective:
The objective of this course is to present current research findings about how people’s brains, minds and bodies respond to traumatic experiences, and the role of relationships in protecting and restoring safety and regulation. We will explore post-traumatic responses at different developmental levels, and the treatment implications of these findings. Lastly, the course will examine the cutting edge of treatment interventions for various trauma-based symptoms. 


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Schedules:

Friday, June 22, 2007:

      7:30 – 8:00 a.m. 
     Registration
     
      8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
     Introduction: The Core of Self and Relationships: Embodiment and Rhythms
      Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
     
      9:00 – 9:30 a.m. 
     The Mother-Infant Self and Interactive Origins of Infant Disorganized Attachment
      Beatrice Beebe, PhD
     
      9:30 – 9:50 a.m. 
     Coffee Break
     
      9:50 – 10:50 a.m. 
     What Neuroimaging Studies Can Tell Us About the Nature and Resolution of Traumatic Stress
      Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD
     
      10:50 – 11:50 a.m. 
     Neurobiological Consequences of Different Forms of Childhood
      Martin H. Teicher, MD, PhD
     
      11:50 – 12:15 p.m. 
     Panel Discussion & Questions
     
      12:15– 1:30 p.m. 
     Lunch (On Your Own)
     
      1:30– 2:30 p.m. 
     Pathways Through Resilience and Vulnerability in Young Adults
      Charles Marmar, MD
     
      2:30 – 2:40 p.m. 
     Q & A
     
      2:40– 3:00 p.m. 
     Coffee Break
     
      3:00– 5:00 p.m.
     Afternoon Workshops
     
      5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
     Formal Poster Session/Social Hour
     

Friday Afternoon Workshops:
Sign up for afternoon workshops the day of the conference. 

Working with Children Who Live with Ongoing Trauma: Approaches from Trauma Systems Therapy
Glenn Saxe, MD

Dealing with Attachment Issues in the Treatment of Traumatized Adult Patients
Fran Grossman, PhD

Mother-Infant Research Informs Mother-Infant Treatment
Beatrice Beebe, PhD

Sensory Processing Disorder - Combining Assessment and Intervention with Trauma Therapy
Jane Koomar, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Group Intervention and “Debriefing” in Immediate Trauma: The Great Debate
Ilan Kutz, MD

Yoga for Dealing with the Aftermath of Trauma – An Experiential Workshop
David Emerson and Staff from the Trauma Center



Saturday, June 23, 2007

      8:00 – 8:30 a.m. 
     Registration
     
      8:30 – 9:30 a.m. 
     Treating Complex Trauma: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life: Researching and Implementing an Attachment-Based Treatment for Complex Trauma 
      Marylène Cloitre, PhD
     
      9:30 – 10:30 a.m. 
     Focusing: The Body Speaks From the Inside
      Eugene T. Gendlin, PhD • Nina Joy Lawrence, MA • Anne Poonwassie, M.A.Ed, CAC, SFTT
     
      10:30 – 10:50 a.m. 
     Coffee Break
     
      10:50 – 11:50 a.m. 
     Working with the Dissociated Parts of One's Self: The Internal Family Systems Model
      Richard Schwartz, PhD
     
      11:50 – 12:15 p.m. 
     Panel Discussion & Questions
     
      12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
     Lunch (On Your Own)
     
      1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
     The Integration of Science and Clinical Practice: The Mindful Brain – Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
      Daniel J. Siegel, MD
     
      2:40 – 3:45 p.m. 
     Afternoon Workshops
     
      3:45 – 4:10 p.m. 
     Coffee Break
     
      4:10 – 5:00 p.m.
     Home From the War: Veterans from Iraq Speak on Their Homecoming Experience
      Staff Sergeant Jose Vasquez • Rob Timmons 
     
      5:00 – 5:30 p.m.
     Informal Sharing and Closing
      Faculty and Participants
     

Saturday Afternoon Workshops:
Sign up for afternoon workshops the day of the conference. 


Research Consultation – How to Organize Your Research Project
Marylène Cloitre, PhD • Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD

Neuropsychological Assessment of Traumatized Adults and Children
Marla Zucker, PhD • Dawna Gabawitz, PhD

Psychopharmacological Interventions with Traumatized Children and Adults
Jose Hidalgo, MD • Frank Guastella Anderson, MD

Internal Family System Therapy; Follow-up Consultation with Dr. Richard Schwartz

The Use of a Single Session Modified EMDR Protocol in Acute Stress Syndromes (ASS)
Ilan Kutz, MD

Focusing: Hearing the Body’s Wisdom 
Eugene T. Gendlin, PhD • Nina Joy Lawrence, MA • Anne Poonwassie, M.A.Ed, CAC, SFTT


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Faculty: 

Frank Guastella Anderson, MD
Supervising Psychiatrist, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute.

Beatrice Beebe, PhD
Department of Communication Sciences, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University. Her laboratory has two components, (1) a basic research program on mother-infant face to face communication, and (2) a project for mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9-11 and their young children. Author of numerous articles and several books, including: “Infant research and adult treatment: co-constructing interactions” and “Rhythms of dialogue in infancy”.

Margaret Blaustein, PhD
Director of Training and Education at The Trauma Center at JRI. Co-developer of the Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC©) treatment framework, designated a promising practice for treatment of childhood trauma by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

Michael Broas, LMT
Vietnam veteran; Instructor, Florida School of Massage, Gainesville, Florida.

Marylène Cloitre, PhD
The Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Director of the Institute for Trauma and Stress at the NYU Child Study Center, New York University School of Medicine. Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life
(Guilford Press, 2006).

Alan Dougall
Senior Instructor, Brookline Tai Chi.

David Emerson
Yoga instructor, President Black Lotus Yoga studio, director, Trauma Center Yoga project.

Derek Fulker, MA
Internal Energy Arts Instructor, Brookline Tai Chi, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Director of Internal Energy Arts , Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights.

Dawna Gabowitz, PhD
Staff Psychologist, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute.

Lori Galperin, MSW, LCSW
Co-Founder and Co-Clinical Director of Castlewood Treatment Center for eating disorder in St. Louis, Missouri. Past Clinical Co-Director of the Masters and Johnson Institute. Author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on marital and sexual dysfunction, and dissociative disorders.

Eugene T. Gendlin, PhD
Emeritus, Committee on Human Development, Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Chicago. Founder and former editor Psychotherapy: Theory Research and Practice. His book, Focusing, has sold over 400,000 copies worldwide. His other books include, Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams, and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy.

Michael A. Grodin, MD
Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights where he personally has cared for over 300 survivors of torture from 40 countries. He is Professor of Psychiatry, Socio-Medical Sciences, Community Medicine, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

Steven Gross, MSW
Director of Community Services, Children’s Trauma Recovery Foundation, Center for Trauma Recovery, Classroom-Based Interventions (CBI). Director, Project Joy.

Fran Grossman, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Boston University Department of Psychology; Senior Supervisor, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute.

Jose Hidalgo, MD
Psychiatrist, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute; Director, Human Trafficking Program.

Jim Hopper, PhD
Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital. He has studied the biological bases of emotion dysregulation and treatments for PTSD over 15 years. His web site receives over 1 million visitors a year and includes the page, “Mindfulness: An Inner Resource for Recovery from Child Abuse.”

Ron Jones
Actor and Improvisation instructor.

Kristine M. Kinniburgh, LICSW
Director of Child and Adolescent Services at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute. She is the originator and co-developer of the Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC©) treatment framework, recognized by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network as a promising practice.

Dan Kleiman
Managing Director and Senior Instructor Brookline Tai Chi.

Jane Koomar, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Executive director of Occupational Therapy Associates – Watertown, P.C. and the board president of the SPIRAL Foundation (Sensory Processing Institute for Research and Learning). Past Assistant Professor in Occupational Therapy at Boston University.

Ilan Kutz, MD
Director of Psychiatric Services, Meir General Hospital. Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Past co-director of the Mind Body Clinic at Harvard Medical School. Interventionist, mass casualties of terrorist attacks in Israel. His phase-oriented diagnostic and intervention model has been integrated into the practice of General Hospitals around Israel and has been adopted by the Israeli Ministry of Health.

Ruth Lanius, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Physician Leader, Traumatic Stress Service, London Health Sciences Center. Pioneer in neuroimaging studies of patients with PTSD and Dissociative Disorders.

Nina Joy Lawrence, MA
International Certifying Coordinator for the Focusing Institute, New York. She has developed an approach to teaching Focusing in Afghanistan based on Islamic traditions.

Sarah Lazar, PhD
Assistant Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her primary focus is the neural underpinnings of meditation and its salubrious effects on health. She is a board member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.

Robert Macy, PhD
Director of Psychosocial Intervention, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute; Executive Director, Center for Trauma Recovery, Classroom-Based Interventions (CBI). He has worked with traumatized children and adults in Boston and around the world, including Gaza, Turkey, Nepal, Aceh, Uganda, Sri Lanka and Palestine. His plenary will explore the trauma interventionist's self-perceptions when working with survivors and examine the development of the capacity to keep heart and body open and grounded.

Dick Johnson Macy, M.Ed, LMHC, ADTR
Creative Director for the Center for Trauma Psychology. Pioneer in dance-movement and music therapy for toddlers and youth exposed to severe psychological trauma, based upon the Art & Technique of Isadora Duncan for preschool and elementary children and their mothers exposed to armed conflict and community violence.

Charles Marmar, MD
Professor and Vice of Psychiatry at the UC, San Francisco. and Associate Chief of Staff and Director, PTSD Research Program, San Francisco VA Medical Center. Past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies where he was a co-recipient of the Robert S. Laufer Award for outstanding scientific achievement. Dr. Marmar is conducting a five year NIMH funded prospective study of 500 police academy recruits, testing individual differences in psychophysiological and neuroendocrine reactivity as a predictor of vulnerability.

Mohammed R. Milad, MD
Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. His work focuses on the neural circuits of fear extinction, specifically, the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus in the recall of context-gated extinction recall.

Pat Ogden, PhD
Founder and Director, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Boulder, Colorado; Faculty, Naropa University. Author: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy.
W.W. Norton, 2006.

Albert Pesso, BA
Co-Founder, Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Therapy; President, the Psychomotor Institute, Inc. Boston. Author: Movement in Psychotherapy and Experience in Action.

Lin Piwowarczyk, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Boston University School of Medicine.

Anne Poonwassie, M.A.Ed, CAC, SFTT Director of Prairie Region Center for Focusing, Experiential Therapies and Complex Trauma in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, faculty, University of Manitoba.

Bill Robertson
Senior Instructor Brookline Tai Chi.

Robert Saper, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Director of Integrative Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.

Glenn Saxe, MD
Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Research and Development; Director Center for Behavioral Science; Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School. Author of Collaborative Treatment of Traumatized Children and Teens: The Trauma Systems Therapy Approach,
Guilford Press, 2007.

Mark Schwartz, ScD
Co-founder and Co-clinical Director of Castlewood Treatment Center for eating disorders in St. Louis, Missouri. Past Clinical Co-director of the Masters and Johnson Institute. Adjunct Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics at St. Louis University School of Medicine. Author of Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders; Editorial Board of The Journal of Eating Disorders.

Richard Schwartz, PhD
Developer of the Internal Family Systems Model and Director of the Center for Self Leadership in Oak Park, Illinois. Associate Professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Author of Internal Family Systems Therapy; co-author of Mosaic Mind and Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods.

Daniel J. Siegel, MD
Former director, training program in child psychiatry and the Infant and Preschool Service at UCLA. Associate clinical professor of psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine; Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center; faculty, Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. Director of the Mindsight Institute. Author, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience (1999), Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (2003), and The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being.

Joseph Spinazzola, PhD
Executive Director, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute. Associate Director for Research and Site Coordinator, Trauma Center Community Practice Site, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.

Martin H. Teicher, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program and Laboratory of Developmental Psychopharmacology at McLean Hospital. His research studies range from inquiries into the molecular mechanisms of brain development, to brain imaging studies of the effects of childhood maltreatment on brain development. He is Callaghan Investigator by NARSAD for his studies on adolescent depression. Dr. Teicher has published more than 150 original research reports and book chapters, and holds 13 U.S. patents.

Rob Timmons
Field Director, Iraq Veteran, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

Anthony Toombs, M.Ed
Director of the Children’s Trauma Recovery Foundation. He is also professional musician who uses recording arts as a tool to engage discouraged and traumatized youth to create narratives and purpose.

Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
Medical Director, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute. Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine. Director, Boston Community Practice Site, National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Author of Psychological Trauma and Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society; Past President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Staff Sergeant Jose Vasquez
Has Served fourteen years in the Army and Army Reserve as a Cavalry Scout, Medic, Nurse, and Health Services Instructor. In January 2005, he applied for conscientious objector status requesting; his case is still pending. Jose is an active member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York.

Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD
Trained in the Netherlands, Yale, Stanford and Emory Universities, Dr. Vermetten is Colonel in the Dutch Army and Head of Research at the Military Mental Health Group in the Department of Defense as well as Associate Professor Psychiatry at the Neuroscience Division of the University Medical Center Utrecht. His research focuses on the biological basis of trauma-related disorders. President of the International Society of Hypnosis. His most recent book co-edited with Martin Dorahy and David Spiegel is Traumatic Dissociation.

Marla Zucker, PhD
Assistant Director of the Trauma Center at JRI and Project Coordinator for the Center’s youth violence prevention programming.


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Poster Submission and Student Submission Contest

The Trauma Center is pleased to offer its inaugural poster submission and student submission contest. This year Trauma Center is accepting research posters from graduate students, interns, postdoctoral fellows and junior investigators. Also welcome are poster submissions from more senior clinical practitioners describing assessment approaches, treatment frameworks and program models, as well as practicing clinicians using the arts/expressive arts in their work with traumatized clients interested in representing their work in a poster display (applicants should include one or more jpeg pictures depicting the products they are developing with their clients); and developers of innovative trauma services and interventions interested in showcasing their intervention/treatment/assessment models. Selected posters will be prominently featured Day 2 of the Conference, with a formal poster session beginning at 5 p.m. Posters will be displayed on 6- x 2-foot tables. Proposals that relate to this year's primary conference themes (neuroscience, attachment and/or therapeutic interventions) will receive special consideration. In addition, all student, intern and fellow submissions will automatically be entered into a poster competition, with special prizes (medals and cash) awarded to the three strongest submissions. Prizes will be awarded during the evening poster session/social hour.

Proposals should be no more than 200 words in length, excluding proposal title, authors, author affiliations and contact information (email/phone) of the lead author. Submissions should be submitted electronically to the attention of Dr. Joseph Spinazzola, PhD, by May 1, 2007: jspinazzola at traumacenter.org. All applicants must be registered for the conference by the time proposals are reviewed. Applicants will be notified electronically of acceptance by May 15.


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Location:

The Seaport World Trade Center is located on Boston Harbor—a beautiful place for a conference/short vacation in the spring and early summer. With an abundance of sun and temperatures in the low 70s, the harbor is one of Boston’s best-kept secrets this time of year. Located within easy walking distance of the Silver Line subway, the hotel is convenient to all of Boston’s sites and visitor attractions. 

Conference Hotel:
The Seaport Hotel (adjacent to the World Trade Center)
One Seaport Lane
Boston, MA 02210
877-732-7678

Reservations:
Conference attendee rate is $199 per night. Reservations can be made directly with the hotel; call toll-free 1-877-SEAPORT. Please mention that you are attending the Trauma Conference. www.seaportboston.com

Parking:
Available at the Seaport Garage; event day rate parking is $17.

Transportation:

Air travelers can reach the Seaport by taxi in less than 10 minutes from Logan International Airport.

Mass Transit:
Traveling on the T: Take the Silver Line to the World Trade Center stop. You also can take the Silver Line from the airport to the WTC stop. Detailed information can be found at www.mbta.com.



Registration:

      Pre-Conference Institutes Only
      June 21, 2007 - $175
      Early Registration - 30 Days Prior - $145
     
         Workshop II - The Neuroscience of Self...Workshop III - Surviving the AftermathWorkshop IV - Treatment of Trauma and...Workshop V - Facilitating Intimacy with One’s SelfWorkshop VI - Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong...Workshop VII - Re-establishing Physical and Rhythmic...Workshop VIII - Pesso-Boyden Psychotherapy

     

     
      Pre-Conference Institutes and Psychological Trauma Conference
      June 21 - 23, 2007 - $405
      Early Registration - 30 Days Prior - $385
     
         Workshop II - The Neuroscience of Self...Workshop III - Surviving the AftermathWorkshop IV - Treatment of Trauma and...Workshop V - Facilitating Intimacy with One’s SelfWorkshop VI - Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong...Workshop VII - Re-establishing Physical and Rhythmic...Workshop VIII - Pesso-Boyden Psychotherapy

     

     
      Psychological Trauma Conference Only
      June 22 - 23, 2007 - $295
      Early Registration - 30 Days Prior - $275
     

     

     
      Workshop 1 Pre-Conference Institute Only
      June 20 - 21, 2007 - $250
      Early Registration - 30 Days Prior - $220
     

     

     
      Workshop 1 Pre-Conference Institute and Psychological Trauma Conference
      June 20 - 23, 2007 - $480
      Early Registration - 30 Days Prior - $450
     

     



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Refund Policy: An administrative fee of $60 is deducted for cancellation. Refund requests must be made in writing, fax or email to The Meadows, 553 W. Wickenburg Way, Wickenburg, AZ 85390, fax: 928-684-7821 or email: events at themeadows.org and must be postmarked by June 6, 2007. No refunds will be made thereafter.

Accreditation

The Meadows is approved by the following boards to offering continuing education. NAADAC Approved Provider, Provider # 000217. The Meadows is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education, Provider # 5687. Course meets qualification for continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider # 2645. Provider Approved by CAADAC, Provider # OS-03-960-0807. Provider Approved by CAADE, Provider # CP30 730 C 0707. MFT for the State of Illinois, Provider # 168-000155. LCSW/LSW for the State of Illinois, Provider # 159-000839. Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, Provider # 50-2933-1. Florida Board of Psychology, Provider # 50-2933-1. Texas State Board of MFT Approved. MSW for the State of Texas, Provider # CS2462.

“The Justice Resource Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Justice Resource Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.”

Pre-conference Workshop I meet criteria for 14 credit hours, Pre-conference Workshops II through VIII meet criteria for 7 credit hours each; The Psychological Trauma Conference meet a criteria for 14 credit hours, and the combined program meets criteria for 21 hours (Combined Program with Workshop I meets criteria for 28 credit hours).

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