Module 11 Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Explain the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and its implications regarding the impact of early traumatic experiences on the adult body
• Describe how early experiences correlate with adult physiology with research on the impact of the HPA axis, stress versus trauma, maternal depression, disorganized attachment, ADD, ADHD, addiction and interpersonal violence
• Describe the main discoveries in the study of genetics, epigenetics, and attachment that led to therapies which augment repair approaches or recovery from trauma strategies
• Explain the ways in which cultural ‘norms’ undermine health and wellbeing through various forms of identification and denial