Using Biofeedback to Treat People With Developmental Trauma: Challenges and Ways to overcome them by Ainat Rogel, PhD, MSW, BCN, LICSW
The overwhelming circumstances that health professionals are experiencing during this global crisis has been and continues to be taxing on their well-being. Prolonged stress for weeks/months can trigger an acute stress disorder (ASD), which can snowball to increased risk for additional mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. It is clear: medical staff are next in the line of harm.
In light of this, we have launched a collaborative project to meet the needs of the medical staff, especially those who are not engaged in psychological or other group interventions. We want to share this project with you, in hope that you might join us or form such a group in your community.
It is imperative for this at-risk group to know how to identify their level of stress and to learn self-regulatory techniques to regulate their response when facing daily stressful conditions. Current advancements in psychophysiological monitoring and biofeedback are better adapted to the clinical setting, such as improved portability and ease-of-use. Guided by physiology-based techniques, biofeedback can introduce health professionals to activities specifically designed to build awareness and decrease the stress response, while promoting coping mechanisms that might help them to prevent further mental health issues.
Join us in this webinar, where we will talk about this collaborative project as well as present basic anatomical and physiological concepts associated with the stress response (breathing, heart rate variability, peripheral temperature, and galvanic/electrodermal skin response). These biosignals can be harnessed into both assessment tools as well as a training tools to facilitate physiological balance for stress management. Thought Technology will also be offering an ambitious deal to facilitate the project's success.
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