CC13 Workshop 10 – Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory I – Symbiotic Regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System – Stephen Porges, PhD

Description:

The workshop will cover clinical applications of the Polyvagal Theory. The Polyvagal Theory Links the evolution of the autonomic nervous system to affective experience, emotional expression, facial gestures, vocal communication and contingent social behavior, and provides a plausible explanation of several features that are compromised during stress and observed in numerous psychiatric disorders. Humans have evolved as highly social and mutually dependent beings. Yet, when overwhelmed by stress and threat, our autonomic nervous systems adaptively dictate more primordial strategies. The therapeutic interventions that engage in the Regulation of these physiological states and target the capacity to sense safety are effective in treating disorders that result from chronic reliance on older stress responses. Positive clinical outcomes result from the Expand of the patient’s biobehavioral capacity by recruiting our most evolved adaptive neural circuit—the “social engagement system.”

Educational Objectives

1. Please describe how you would describe it. Polyvagal Perspective gives insight into the Clinical assessment and treatment of Many conditions.
2. Let’s explain the dependence of Stress responses and social bonds in social contexts the Regulation of the autonomic nervous systems.

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