Practical Strategies to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth – NICABM

How to Help Clients Engage with the Pain of Trauma to Foster Growth

Steven Hayes, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

Kelly McGonigal, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD
Practical Strategies to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth – NICABM

The critical connection to pain that lays the groundwork for change
The one factor that blocks the pivotal transition from trauma to growth
The 4-stage process that helps clients find meaning from their pain
The “gut check” that reframes trauma and fosters growth

The Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Growth
Stephen Porges, PhD Pat Ogden, PhD

Joan Borysenko, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD

How the body’s neurobiological response to trauma can trap clients in self-blame
The two vital functions that get powerfully inhibited during the body’s freeze response
Why a client’s state of arousal can affect the integration of unprocessed trauma (and how to work with it)

How to Reframe the Context of Trauma to Shift Clients Out of Self-Blame
Rick Hanson, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

What can go wrong when you help a client attach meaning to their trauma
The crucial difference between justice and grievance and how this nuance can ignite change
One liberating switch in perspective that can give clients agency in their future

The Critical Role of Connection in Post-Traumatic Growth
Sue Johnson, EdD Kelly McGonigal, PhD Joan Borysenko, Ph

How to help clients without secure relationships move into post-traumatic growth
How this one element of trauma recovery can help determine whether the client relapses
The one particular kind of relationship that can have a deeply profound effect on fear and rage
The specific feeling state that’s one of the most powerful predictors of post-traumatic growth (and how to promote it)

How to Promote Growth After Early Life Trauma
Marsha Linehan, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

Kelly McGonigal, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD

How to help clients repair supportive family relationships broken by trauma
The adaptive coping model that releases vengeance and helps clients regain their inner freedom

How to Help Clients Make Sense of a World Altered by Trauma
Shelly Harrell, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

One thing you should avoid in treatment so you don’t negatively impact a client’s sense of self
How to help clients stop clinging to the self-states that are blocking growth (and a simple exercise that will help)

How Your Choice of Language Can Transform an Intervention (And Foster Growth)
Scott Miller, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD

Ron Siegel, PsyD Joan Borysenko, PhD

The powerful non-reaction that can radically change the way a client sees themselves
One game-changing mental checkpoint to use when responding to a client’s story
Two words that can liberate a client from shame and vulnerability

One Crucial Way the Practitioner Can Ignite Accelerated Growth
Michael Yapko, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

How to help clients stop using their past trauma to make future decisions
How to work with the rumination that anchors clients to the past
The specific skill set that can derail self-perpetuating patterns of trauma