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Total Credits: 1.5 including 1.5 APA Credit, 1.5 NBCC Credit
Description: This presentation will elucidate how substances, high-risk behavior, and mental health problems affect healthy neurodevelopment, change brain structure and describe the role of genetics, the effect of environmental trauma, and implications for prevention and treatment. Assessment, treatment, prevention, family-of-origin, and group tools will be included. Content is relevant for clinical use and application of executive functioning skills assessment and building, the use of genetic testing in treatment planning, use of natural supplements to support neurotransmitter deficits, helping clients discover the origins of their use, and devising brain-based treatment plans that align with neurodevelopmental healing and dendrite growth facilitation.
Category of Education: D1.3 Practice / Education / Research
Intended Audience:
Content Learning Level: Intermediate
Learning Objectives:
1. Define the effects of high-risk behavior on healthy neurodevelopment, specifically how the process of how addiction, trauma and genetics affect the brain and executive functioning skills development.
2. Discuss how to apply prevention & treatment tools when working with clients, specifically the application of FOO Mapping and neuroscience tools to help clients explore their family-of-origin issues, how they play a role in addiction/trauma, what specific day-to-day tools can be used to rewire the brain for healthier cognitive, affective and behavioral functioning.
Schedule:
First 40 minutes: Healthy Brain Development Neurscience & Genetics of Addiction Two Neurochemical Effects Effects on Prefrontal Cortex
Second 40 Minutes: Environmental Effects & Family-of-Origin of Addiction & Trauma implications of Executive Functioning Skills Hypofrontality Mapping Family-of-Origin events & effects on cognitive, affective, behavioral neural networks Incorporating Neuroscience into Prevention & Treatment Planning
10 minutes: Q&A
| Neuroscience, Genetics & Origins of Addiction - PowerPoint Slides (25.84 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Crystal Collier, PhD, LPC-S, a therapist, prevention researcher, educator, and author of The NeuroWhereAbouts Guide and Know Your Neuro: Adventures of a Growing Brain children's book series. The Know Your Neuro prevention model was selected for the Prevention and Education Commendation from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. Dr. Collier received the Torch Bearer Award from the Texas Association of Addiction Professionals, Outstanding Research Award from the Association of Alternative Peer Groups, and voted Counselor of the Year by the Houston Counseling Association.