Week 4 Flashcards
1
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Right Brain Dominance
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- Right brain is for implicit, nonverbal communication, intuition, holistic processing and social interaction
2
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Brain Hemispheres
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- Right & Left hemispheres have different priorities
- Right seeks new threats and opportunities, is sensorial and implicit memory
- Left side strongly linked to cognitive processes, Likes to organise information
3
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Right Brain is Dominant in Therapy
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Implicit, nonverbal, intuitive, holistic processing of emotional information and social interactions
Schore 2014
4
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Developmental and Affective Neuroscience
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- When a therapist tunes into the client experience
- Shift from cognitive left brain to right brain unconscious and emotional, holistic functions
5
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Attunement
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- Appears between mothers and babies
- Appears to be both right brains communicating
- Babies only have right brain functioning
- Left brain still developing
- Best therapy is right brain intuitive
6
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Attachment Neurobiology
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- Mother-infant communication happens quickly
- Is unconscious therefore right brained
- Left side is cognitive and conscious
7
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Regulation Theory
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- Maturation of the right brain
- The caregiver teaches the infant to regulate their affect
- Using nonverbal, rightside visual-facial cues, auditory prosodic cues
8
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Co-regulation
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- Initial regulation of nervous system relies on comfort & support of caregiver
- Needs responsive approach that supports distress of child
- Early co-regulation promotes self-regulation when there is no one to lean on
9
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Neurochemicals That Will Soothe Us
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- Oxytocin mainly in females
- Vasopresin mainly in males
- The care system and natural opioids, endorphins and dopamine
- Hugs help release these naturally
10
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Secure Attachments
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- Positive caregiving fosters this
- Helps self-regulation and auto-regulation
11
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Empathic Therapist
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- Conscious Explicit attending to client’s language
- Objective diagnosis and rationale of dysregulation and symptomology
- Active listening to interact at an implicit level
12
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Left Brain Communication
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- The sharing of conscious and constructed ideas
- Both sides are important in their own way
- Get clients to describe their anxiety and what the feeling is
- Get them to connect the emotion to left brain activity
13
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Relational Trauma
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- When early attachments fail affect regulation is poor
- We need to develop affect regulation and positive implicit interactions
- Must occur in a therapeutic context
14
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Core Clinical Skills
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- Right Brain Implicit Capacities
- Ability to sensitively register changes in emotion
- Immediate awareness of own subjective experience
- Regulation of own and patient’s affect
15
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Neuroception
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- Neurophysiological process that happens without awareness
- Could be called gut instinct
- Evaluates risk and triggers adaptive responses to threat
- Uses implicit cues of safety: faces, gestures, prosody
- Connecting with present and cognitive supports change
16
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What is Therapeutic Prescence?
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- Grounded contact with own healthy self
- Open, receptive, immersed in what is important in the moment
- Larger sense of expansion of awareness and perception
- Intention of being with client and serving their healing
17
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Components of Neuroception
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- Body feelings and emotions can be influenced by others
- Bidirectional communication with brain, body and nervous system of others
- Not aware its happening, can be gut feeling
- Makes us alert within social interactions
18
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Function of Neuroception
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- An adaptive mechanism that turns off defenses to engage socially
- Or prepares us for defensive strategies connected with fight/flight or shutdown
19
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Bidirectional Influence
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- Feelings are contagious
- Therapist can influence client’s feelings and vice versa
- Geller & Porges 2014 say it is specifically right brain connection that creates state regulation
20
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Regulation Theory
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- A process of anchoring and adjusting our performance
- Is both mental and physical in nature
- Responses to corrective feedback within our social and physical environment.
21
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Modern Attachment Theory
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The development of affect regulation
Right Brain lateralisation of visual, auditory and gesture communication
Primary caregiver regulates infants distress
