Table of Contents
Traumatic Experience and the Brain
~ BY DAVE ZIEGLER, Ph.D.
A Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized as Children
Chapter 2 The Role of the Brain in Adaptation Use-Dependent Neurodevelopment• Neurotemplates• Core Processes of Neurodevelopment• Memory and Adaptation• The Purpose of Memory• Types of Memory• Treatment Implications
Chapter 3 Trauma and the Brain Adaptation• Imprinting• Sensitization• Overactivation/Deprivation• Effects of Trauma on the Body• Treatment Implications
Chapter 4 The Effects of Trauma on Perception and Internal Experience Biological States Produced by Trauma• Stuck in Survival Mode• Absence of Self-Regulation Is Pervasive Among Traumatized Children• Self-Aggression---Never Intended by Nature• Perception of Retraumatization• Deprivation of Experience• Internalizers/Externalizers• Trauma Response Continuum• Treatment Implications
Chapter 5 Trauma and Self-Perception Inner Working Model of Self Perception• Set Points of Self-Perception• Behaviors Produces by the Traumatized Self• Treatment Implications
Chapter 6 How Traumatized Children Perceive Others Perceptual Inner Working Model of Others• Safety Threat• Interpersonal Threat• Easy Mark• Irrelevant• Emotional Set Points Related to Others• Treatment Implications
Chapter 7 The World View of Traumatized Children Inner Working Model of the World• Emotions--From a Help to a Hindrance• Negative Perceptions of the World Affect Behavior• Treatment Implications
Chapter 8 From Neural Templates to Inner Working Models The Brain is Built from Experience• Neurons to Neural Networks to Neural Templates• Experience to Memory to Inner Working Models• Treatment Implications
Chapter 9 Four Case Examples - Understanding and Intervening Not So Crazy Mike• Renee Put the "R" in Rage• Brad's Brain Impairment• Taming the Animal Within Tammy
Chapter 10 The Primary Ingredients of Trauma Therapy Trauma Is More Than a Diagnosis• Trauma Is an Internal Experience• Primary Goals of Trauma Therapy• Cognitive Responses to Trauma• Affective Responses to Trauma• Behavioral Responses to Trauma• The Ten Necessary Steps of Trauma Therapy
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