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PSY-5201: Interrupting Intergenerational Trauma an d Advancing Development in Children and Families:A Contempoary Psychoanalytic & Neurobiological Approach

This course offers psychoanalytically and neurobiologically informed interventions to introduce students to how to interrupt multi-generational transmission of unresolved trauma. Rather than focusing mainly on symptom reduction in identified children, it teaches active techniques to help students recognize interpersonal patterns between parents and children that perpetuate traumatic experiences and inform behavioral difficulties in children. Through lecture and class discussions the didactic part of the workshop will address ideas about organizing patterns and meaning making between parents that are often expressed in the dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system in adults and children. The lecture will also address the somatic symptoms of dysregulation as a way to return to autonomic balance so family closeness can develop. The dynamics of attachment, empathic mirroring and attunement, and boundary negotiation will be addressed in order for parents and families to grow both in terms of family closeness and the individuation of family members, without sacrificing one for the other. The experiential part of the workshop, with the focus on both implicit and explicit communication, will help students acquire tools to help families develop new organizing patterns of relating. By using various sensory modalities the experiential exercises will enhance students’ self-awareness in a relational context and will develop their ability to negotiate individual differences including cultural, sexual, and gender differences.
Min. Credits: 1.0
Credit Basis: Quarter credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles
Method(s): Workshop
Prerequisites: PSY-5430C: Child and Adolescent Development
Course Type Applied Psychology


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