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The Bipartisan Brain
Feeling
Limbic System
Thinking
Frontal Lobes
Behaviors of the Systems
Behaviors
Freeze, Flight, Fight
Behaviors
Stop, Think, Solve Problems
Triggering Events
Limbic System
Freeze, Flight, Fight
Frontal Lobes
Turned off by Limbic System
The Social Brain
Disengagement
AVOID!
Engagement
Approach…
Confabulation
Limbic System
Freeze, Flight, Fight
Frontal Lobes
Turned off by Limbic System
Broca’s Region
Language Production
and Comprehension
The Brain is…
•The brain is an anticipation machine. It
mostly anticipates what it has
experienced.
•It gathers information from the
perceived (and “remembered”) social and
external world as well as conscious and
unconscious memory and process.
•It then decides on, and prepares for,
what it believes is coming next.
Symptoms of the people we serve
•Violence
•Aggression
•Manipulation
•Emotional outbursts
•Lack of motivation
A more thoughtful look at “bad behavior”
• Developmental Trauma
• Van Der Kolk (2005) “Developmental Trauma Disorder: Towards a
Rational Diagnosis for Chronically Traumatized Children
A TYPICAL STRESS RESPONSE
Stressful
Event
ALARM
Necessary
survival
response
Deactivation
Dissociation
Activation
F/F/F
Return to Baseline
Traumatic reorganization
What happens when a
person experiences
inescapable, repeated,
life-threatening,
overwhelming stress
Stressful
Event
ALARM
Necessary
survival
response
Captured and
stored in
embodied CNS
Changes in Brain
organization and
function
Lasting changes in social,
emotional, cognitive,
perceptual organization
Traumatic Re-enactment
Similar facets
to dangerous
event (sight,
sound, smell etc.)
Event
“over-reactive”
Embodied CNS &
neuroendocrine
systems
Time
ALARM
Unnecessary
Survival
response
Treatment implications
• A traumatized brain sees the world and everything in it as a
potential threat
• Luckily, neuroplasticity allows for “rewiring”
• Basis for treatment is reestablishing fundamental attachments
• The SSRT state/stage model allows for conceptualizing the path of
treatment
Stage 2
Stage 3
“Wrap The World Around
Them”
“Lay The Groundwork For
Understanding Themselves
& The World”
“Wrap Them Around The
World”
Stop blowing up
Learn skills
Understanding
The body
The skills
The mind
Predominant
State
Anger
Pain
Treatments
Parasympathetic tools
The Map
Traditional psychotherapy
Outcomes
Stops blowing up
Can map events
Understand what makes them
tick
Common
Misperceptions
We Are Reinforcing Bad
Behavior
We Are Being
Manipulated
We have Extinguished the
Behavior
The State
Or
Stage Model
Goals
Targets
Stage 1
Hope