Neuroscience of Attachment

Arizona Trauma Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6677. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Arizona Trauma Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

CE Hours Awarded: 6 Platinum & Gold Options only

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Training Description

This course will focus on working with adults and children that have experienced attachment trauma. We will focus on how to approach work and healing with people attachment issues with a trauma informed approach. We will fully explain how attachment is formed from a neuro scientific perspective. Participants will discover how the interaction between the internal wiring in the brain, the first relationship, and the environment set the grounds for attachment relationship. The training will explore the ACES and attachment-based work that supports clients in healing attachment wounds.

Learning Objectives

1. To understand how to work with attachment trauma from a trauma informed lens.
2. To understand ways that attachments are formed and why we need attachments.
3. To understand how the brain is neurobiologically wired for attachment and connection and how the prenatal and post-natal experience can impact this.
4. To learn how to work with neuro developmental delay caused by trauma and evaluation using the ACE’s and other tools.
5. To learn what attachment-based activities can be used with this client group.
6. To understand the importance of psychoeducation around default wiring and templates for this group and draft usable scripts to help clients understand how their brains and bodies may have been impacted by this trauma.

DISCLAIMER

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized scope of expertise or license of professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession’s standards.

Additionally, many of the topics being taught would require supervision and/or mentorship is not included in this course.

CE Credits

Credits listed below are for full attendance of the live training.  Attendees will sign in upon arrival and after lunch.  At the end of the training, attendees will be given an evaluation to complete.  After completing the evaluation attendees will receive a certificate of completion for the training.

Arizona Trauma Institute does not issue partial certificates of completion.

NOTE: Credits do not include time for breaks or lunch.

CE Hours Awarded: 6 Platinum & Gold Options only

Training Presenter – Camea Peca, PhD

Dr. Peca has spent over 18 years working with Adults, Children and Families in a vast range of settings both locally and abroad. After completing a Bachelor of Science at ASU, Camea spent 10 years abroad studying and working. During this time, she completed a MSc in Psychoanalytic Development Psychology at the Anna Freud Center/University College London including a dissertation in Sensory Integration Therapy and Tactile and Vestibular Processing Disorder. During this training Camea was trained by leaders in attachment and infant development including Dr. Peter Fonagy and Mary Target.

She later completed specialized Adult training with a Graduate Diploma in the Application of Arts in Therapy and Education at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE), London. Dr Peca is trained in the use of all 7 Expressive Arts modalities including dance/movement/body work and has completed her own experiential work in each modality.

She completed an additional Graduate Diploma in Child Counselling using the Expressive Arts at IATE.  As a part of this training Camea had the chance to work with the Child Center for Mental Health and participating in specialty training with leaders in the expressive arts as well as Sir Richard Bowlby, Dr. Dan Hughes, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Bruce Perry, and many others. Camea also participated in three years of the MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy for adults. She completed clinical training and supervision in the Expressive Arts with Dr. Margot Sunderland and the Helping Where It Hurts program which puts expressive arts therapists in inner city London schools as well as adult clinical placement in the outpatient Arts Therapy for the National Health Service, London.

Camea has completed her PhD in Psychology with an emphasis on Cognition and Instruction, which focused specifically on adults.

Professionally Camea has worked in a variety of settings including adolescent shelters, inpatient psychiatric units, outpatient services, schools and specialty projects targeting physical and sexualized trauma.

Camea also works with adults providing trauma based coaching services using the body and teaching self-regulation skills as well as building relational skills. Camea uses a Salutogenic approach and incorporates the integration of the brain and the body holistically targeting sleeping, nutrition, and movement.

IN-PERSON – PLATINUM OPTION

Event Location:

Arizona Trauma Institute
49 South Sycamore Street, Suite 2
Mesa, Arizona 85202

LIVE WEBINAR – GOLD OPTION

PLEASE NOTE: that you must participate in the Live Webinar on a computer, or laptop, NOT a phone or tablet. The system keeps track of each person attending the Live Webinar and how long they attended. Your attendance cannot be tracked on a phone, so it will appear that you did not attend, thus, you would not be eligible to receive a Certificate of Completion. In addition, you must attend for the duration of the Live Webinar to receive your Certificate of Completion.

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