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Working with Traumatized Children

Watch this short video featuring Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.

Children have a biological instinct to attach. Whether their parents or caregivers are loving and caring or distant, insensitive, rejecting, or abusive, children will develop a coping style based on their attempt to get at least some of their needs met.

The children we see in our practices who are traumatized have not had caregivers who were able to calm their upsets and their misery. So as clinicians we ask…

Is it possible to help the minds and brains of brutalized children, redraw their inner maps and incorporate a sense of trust and confidence in the future?

Watch this short video to find out…





Do you want to revolutionize your approach to trauma?
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on How the Body Keeps the Score: Intensive Trauma Treatment Course
Then this on How the Body Keeps the Score is for you.

Join Dr. Bessel van der Kolk as he shows you how the helplessness, rage, and collapse from past trauma imprints can be transformed through physical experiences - restoring your client’s hope for a brighter future filled with joy, purpose and meaning. Get started today!

Meet the Expert:
Bessel A. Van der Kolk, MD, 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.

Learn more about his educational products, including upcoming live seminars, by clicking here.

Topic: Trauma

Tags: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study | Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. | Body | How To | Kids | Mindfulness | Therapy Tools | Tools | Trauma | Trauma Treatment

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