by NPT | Apr 1, 2018 | Magazine, Mechanisms of Change
Reconsidering the Nature of Trauma Bonnie Badenoch [Content protected for subscribers only] Leaving her mom at the door, four-year-old Mandy walks confidently into her preschool classroom and is immediately met by the screams of another child as his mother walks out...
by Beth Maloney | Nov 2, 2017 | Integration, Magazine, Mechanisms of Change
Members Download full article NPTV5I11pp8-15 When my middle son, Sammy, was twelve years old he was suddenly struck with an increasingly bizarre series of behaviors, just before the start of sixth grade. He was diagnosed first with obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
by Dr. Haley Peckham (PhD) | Sep 2, 2017 | Magazine, Mechanisms of Change
Evolutionary Perspectives: Attachment Theory, Affect Regulation Theory and Working With Relational Trauma Haley Peckham Subscribers Download The Full Article Here NPTV5I8p14-28 A famous quote from Anaïs Nin asserts that “We don’t see things as...
by Dr. Haley Peckham (PhD) | Aug 2, 2017 | Magazine, Mechanisms of Change
Members Download Neuroplasticity Download the PDFhttps://neuropsychotherapy.lpages.co/leadbox-1501866814.js The dominant paradigm for understanding and treating mental health issues is the medical model. The medical model is rooted in science. Broadly speaking, it...
by Matthew Dahlitz | Nov 19, 2016 | Mechanisms of Change, Neuroscience
Epigenetics Definition Epigenetics (from the Greek: επί – over, outside of, or around the genome) is the study of trait variations caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes....
by NPT | Oct 1, 2016 | Magazine, Mechanisms of Change
Permissible Curiosity Gail Noppe-Brandon Members Download: TNPTVol4Issue10pp18-31 What follows in this article is an attempt to explore the importance of bringing creativity into clinical practice. To that end, it is my great hope to marry style and content, since it...
by Dr. Haley Peckham (PhD) | Aug 2, 2016 | Magazine, Mechanisms of Change
Report On The 2016 Childhood Trauma Conference (Part 2) Haley Peckham Members Download TNPTVol4Issue8pp32-45 In Part 1 of my report on the Childhood Trauma Conference, I talked about Dan Siegel’s thoughts on integration and connection between brain...
by Dr. Haley Peckham (PhD) | Jul 1, 2016 | Magazine, Mechanisms of Change
Report on the Childhood Trauma Conference 2016 (Part 1) Members Download TNPTVol4Issue7pp28-37 The second Childhood Trauma Conference took place in Melbourne in early June, 2016. The impressive array of speakers included Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Allan Schore, Pat...
by Dr. Haley Peckham (PhD) | Dec 2, 2014 | Magazine, Mechanisms of Change
Society For Neuroscience 2014 Report by Haley Peckham In 1969, the Committee of Brain Sciences in the US wanted to set up a formal society for scientists studying the brain with a goal to “help direct attention to the importance of neurosciences for the...
by Matthew Dahlitz | Nov 12, 2014 | Mechanisms of Change
Memory reconsolidation is a central part of the mechanism of change in psychotherapy. Here Matthew Dahlitz gives a very brief snapshot of what it’s all about. Check out more about the clinical application of memory reconsolidation by going to the following posts...
by Richard Hill | Oct 6, 2014 | Mechanisms of Change
Telomeres are the protective cap at the end of chromosomes that protect the integrity of the chromosome end. You might think of it like a band at the end of a plait of hair that stops the plait from unravelling during the activity of the day. Telomeres are more like a...
by Bruce Ecker | Jul 14, 2014 | Mechanisms of Change
Annals of Memory Reconsolidation: Lagging Accounts Cause Confusion Bruce Ecker Interest in memory reconsolidation and in the researchers who study it have been surging in popular media. In science journalism, the writer’s task is to make complex,...
