Lee Stevens – Affective Neuroscience for Clinicians: Emotion-based Strategies for the Treatment of Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression
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- Lee Stevens
- Duration:
- Approx. 6 Hours
- Copyright:
- Apr 16, 2021
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Using Affect and Emotion in Therapy
- Affect reconsolidation as a universal mechanism
- When to implement affect reconsolidation
- Creating the optimal conditions in therapy
- Risks and Limitations
Affective Neuroscience Principles
- Key brain regions for emotions
- Impact of specific emotions on brain cortex
- Emotion as central problem in psychopathology
- Strategic use of emotion in therapy
The goals of emotion-based psychotherapy
- Building safety and trust with your patients
- Addressing internal and external relationships to emotion
- Achieving the optimal level of arousal
- Changing the relationship with memory and emotion
- Seeing emotions as a useful tool in therapy
Affective Neuroscience 4-Step Therapeutic Model
- Emotional Awareness/Mindfulness
- Validation of emotions
- Self-Compassion & Empathy
- Utilizing emotion
The Affect Reconsolidation Toolbox
- Mindfulness for recognizing emotions and where they come from
- Emotional validation techniques
- Techniques for optimal arousal of emotions
- Gestalt techniques for increasing emotion
- Somatic techniques for up and down regulation
- Cognitive based techniques to stop reinforcement of negative feelings
Therapeutic Goals When Targeting Specific Emotions
- Anger – boundaries and consequences, forgiveness
- Sadness – unresolved grief, primary/ secondary emotions
- Fear – managing fear responses, controlling behavior
- Desire – regulating reward systems, increasing self-control
- Disgust – self acceptance
- Jealousy/Envy – comparisons to others, self-judgement
Affect Reconsolidation in the Treatment of Trauma
- Creating curiosity about our emotional responses
- Differentiating between past and present emotions
- Work with secondary emotions first
- Affect Reconsolidation for primary traumatic feelings
Faculty
Lee Stevens, PhD Related seminars and products: 1
Reliant Medical Center
Dr. Lee Stevens is a Boston, MA area psychologist that specializes in affect regulation and reconsolidation. Lee has published widely on clinical affective neuroscience in journals such as Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, and International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. Additionally, he has presented his work on emotion in therapy at multiple conferences.
Dr. Stevens graduated with a Ph.D. in psychology from Tennessee State University, completed his internship in Clinical Psychology at the University of Rochester Counseling Center, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the W.G. Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Dr. Stevens is on the executive committee of the Boston Neuropsychoanalysis Workshop, which develops models of empirical supported psychotherapy based in neuroscience.
Dr. Stevens has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes at several colleges and universities in the Boston, MA area including Wheelock College, Boston College, and Harvard University.
Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Lee Stevens is a psychologist at Reliant Medical Center and maintains a private practice. Dr. Stevens is an author and receives royalties.
Non-financial: Lee Stevens is a member of the APA, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, AGPA, and Social and Affective Neuroscience Society.
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