Psy.D. Elizabeth Warner Seminars and goods related to this topic: 2

Elizabeth Warner, Psy.D., has been practicing psychotherapy in Brookline for the past 20 years. Her field of expertise is in child development and the treatment of children and families. Adoption and adoptive families, the unique nature of that bond and its consequences for development, and the development of innovative therapies for complicated trauma in young children are among her main interests. She spent 15 years at the Language & Cognitive Development Center dealing with seriously disturbed children, including traumatized children and their parents, employing novel approaches and videotape studies. She has also provided counseling, teaching, and consultation in psychiatric inpatient and outpatient settings at Boston University Medical Center, schools, and mental health clinics.

Disclosures for Speakers:

Financial: Elizabeth Warner is the Trauma Center’s project director for SMART for children and adolescents.

Elizabeth Warner does not have any relevant non-financial relationships to declare.

Dr. Ruth Lanius, Ph.D. Seminars and goods related to this topic: 3

Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, is the director of the University of Western Ontario’s posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research center. She founded the Traumatic Stress Service and the Traumatic Stress Service Workplace Program, both of which are dedicated to the treatment and study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and related comorbid conditions. She presently holds the Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at the University of Western Ontario’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

Her research interests include the neuroscience of PTSD as well as treatment outcome studies including different pharmacological and psychotherapy techniques. She has written over 100 articles and chapters in the subject of traumatic stress and is now financed by numerous government bodies. She gives national and worldwide PTSD seminars on a regular basis. She and Eric Vermetten and Clare Pain have co-authored the book The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease.

Disclosures for Speakers:
Ruth Lanius is a psychiatry professor and the director of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research section at the University of Western Ontario. She earns income as an author for W.W. Norton & Company.
Ruth Lanius does not have any relevant non-financial relationships to declare.

Related seminars and products: 21 Professor Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University and the founding director of the Kinsey Institute’s Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland.

Dr. Porges is a previous National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award recipient and has served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. He has over 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles in anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and drug misuse.

Dr. Porges presented the Polyvagal Hypothesis in 1994, a theory that connects the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and highlights the role of physiological condition in the manifestation of behavioral difficulties and mental diseases. The hypothesis is leading to novel therapies based on new insights into the processes that mediate symptoms in a variety of behavioral, mental, and physical illnesses.

He is the author of the books The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton, 2017), and Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2017). (Norton, 2018).

Dr. Porges is also the author of the Safe and Sound ProtocolTM, a music-based intervention used by over 1000 therapists to increase spontaneous social engagement, reduce hearing sensitivities, and improve language processing, mood management, and spontaneous social engagement.

Speaker Information:

Financial: Stephen Porges is an Indiana University Distinguished University Scientist and a professor at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Porges owns intellectual property and is paid royalties by Integrated Listening Systems (now Unyte). Furthermore, he possesses patent rights granted to NeuralSolution for the technology implemented in PhysioCam as well as those embedded in Unyte devices. He earns income as an author for W. W. Norton. PESI, Inc. provides Dr. Porges with a speaking fee.

Stephen Porges does not have any relevant non-financial relationships to declare.

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Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University, after which he began a long association with the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and more recently with The Family Institute at Northwestern University, where he was appointed associate professor. He co-wrote Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods with Michael Nichols, the most frequently used family therapy text in the United States.

Dr. Schwartz created Internal Family Systems in response to clients’ statements of feeling various elements of oneself, many of which were intense. He discovered that when these parts felt comfortable and their worries were addressed, they were less disruptive and willing to follow the wise guidance of what Dr. Schwartz came to refer to as the “Self.” In establishing IFS, he noted that, like in systemic family theory, components take on distinct functions that help shape the clients’ inner world. The coordinating Self, who possesses virtues like as confidence, openness, and compassion, serves as a focal point for the many parts to congregate. Because IFS identifies the root of the client’s healing, the therapist is free to focus on directing the client’s connection to his or her actual Self and assisting the client in utilizing its knowledge. This technique transforms IFS into a non-pathologizing, positive paradigm for psychotherapy. It offers an alternate view of psychic functioning and healing, allowing for novel approaches to treating clients’ symptoms and suffering.

Richard Schwartz established The Center for Self Leadership in Oak Park, Illinois, in 2000. Dr. Schwartz has been a featured speaker for numerous national psychotherapy groups, and he is a fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, as well as serving on the editorial boards of four professional publications. He has written four books and more than 50 papers regarding IFS. Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual (PESI, 2017), Internal Family Systems Therapy (Guilford Press, 1997), Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model (Tarcher, 2001), The Mosaic Mind (with Regina Goulding) (Trailheads, 2003), and Metaframeworks (with Doug Breunlin and Betty Karrer) are among his books (Jossey-Bass, 1997). Dr. Schwartz lives and works in Brookline, MA, and is a member of the Harvard School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry faculty.

Disclosures for Speakers:

Financial: The Center for Self Leadership was founded by Richard Schwartz. PESI, Inc. pays him a speaking honorarium.

Non-monetary: Richard Schwartz is a Fellow of the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy.

Sanford, Matthew Seminars and goods related to this topic: 3

Matthew Sanford, yoga instructor, Mind Body Solutions creator, and paraplegic for the last 39 years. Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence is Sanford’s first book. He educates people in the United States who have experienced trauma, loss, or handicap how to re-inhabit their bodies.

Disclosures for Speakers:
Financial: Mind Body Solutions’ founder and president is Matthew Sanford. He is a self-published author who is compensated.
Matthew Sanford does not have any relevant non-financial relationships to declare.

PhD Sherain Harricharan Seminars and items related to: 1

Sherain Harricharan, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Western Ontario’s Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Judson Brewer, PhD Seminars and goods related to this topic: 3

Jud Brewer MD, PhD (“Dr. Jud”) is a thought leader in the field of habit modification and the “science of self-mastery,” with over 20 years of expertise and scientific research in the subject. He is the Mindfulness Center’s Director of Research and Innovation, as well as an associate professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry at Brown University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine. He is also a research associate at MIT. Brewer, a physician and globally recognized leader in addiction mindfulness training, has designed and evaluated unique mindfulness programs for habit modification, including in-person and app-based therapies for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He has also used traditional and real-time fMRI and EEG neurofeedback to investigate the fundamental brain processes of mindfulness. His work has been featured on 60 Minutes, TED (4th most viewed talk of 2016, with 14+ Million views), the New York Times, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera (documentary on his study), Businessweek, and others. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, among other organizations. Dr. Brewer developed MindSciences to put his clinical proof for mindfulness for anxiety, eating, smoking, and other behavior modification findings into the hands of customers (see www.drjud.com for more information). He is the author of The Craving Mind: Why We Get Hooked on Cigarettes, Smartphones, and Love, and How to Break Bad Habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017). @judbrewer is his Twitter handle.

Disclosures for Speakers:
Financial: Jud Brewer is the Mindfulness Center’s director of research and innovation. He is a Brown University associate professor. Dr. Brewer is a published author who earns royalties. PESI, Inc. pays him a speaking honorarium.
Jud Brewer does not have any relevant non-financial relationships to declare.