Outline

There is therapy in the 21st century.

• The integrative approach—no more need for the “schools” of psychotherapy
• Variables in successful treatment
• Outcomes management
• BASE (Brain, Alliance, System and Evidence-Based Practices)

Neuroscience offers therapy.

• Emotion: laterality and lobes
• The role of attention and affect regulation: prefrontal lobes
• How to change the brain in successful therapy: neuroplasticity
• New neurons in the brain: neurogenesis
• The social brain, empathy and attachment

Brain development is related to Developmental Brain Development.

• Deprived vs. enriched environments
• Temperament and attachment in therapy
• Durability of attachment schema into adolescence and adulthood
• The development of the adolescent brain
• The aging brain

The role of memory.

• The fundamental role of memory in therapy
• Implicit and explicit memory and how they can become dysregulated
• Hippocampus and amygdala dynamics
• Memory improvement techniques

The stress response system is used.

• Historical models and the current view
• A balanced perspective of stress: allostasis
• When stress breaks down the system: allostatic load
• Adverse childhood experiences and how they affect adulthood

The neuroscience of anxiety disorders is being worked on.

• GAD
• Panic
• OCD
• PTSD

The neuroscience of depression is being worked on.

• Limitations of the neurotransmitter/medication models
• The role of labeling emotions: hemisphere laterality
• Cytokines—sickness behavior
• Activity reward system—behavior activation
• Mindfulness

Planting seeds is a healthy habit.

• Sleep hygiene
• Exercise—BDNF—miracle grow
• Education—cognitive
• Diet—amino acids, fatty acids and vitamins
• Social medicine
• Mindfulness