This PTSD Guest Lecture is designed for educators, psychologists,
social workers, and other mental health professionals seeking
to expand
their knowledge in the use of art assessment and treatment in forensic,
school and clinical settings. Dr. Peterson’s presentation
also discusses the elements of sensory-based trauma resolution
with families
enduring a variety of different issues.
Overview:
Art and drawing help traumatized children externalize and concretize
their experience in a language that can then be cognitively
reframed. This presentation provides assistance in identifying
the signs of trauma and quantitative methods based on normative
guides that shift with the child’s developmental level
providing a framework from which to observe traumatized children’s
behavior. Participants will learn the different approaches
and techniques used as indicators of healing as well as of
stress. Dr. Peterson will present her work in forensic medicine,
which has helped her to create a screening inventory to facilitate
the interpretation of children’s drawings for court,
medical, clinical and school settings.
Participants will be shown film clips to review the principles
of behavior analysis, noting appropriate and inappropriate
interventions when dealing with traumatized children
and their parents. Participants will learn how to assist
parents
to actively listen to their traumatized child, reframe
negative thinking and speaking, apply behavioral analysis
principles, appreciate the value of story telling and
understand the elements of sensory- based trauma resolution.
Dr. Peterson
uses film clips from The Horse Whisperer (a
perfect medium for teaching parents a different way to
work with their
traumatized child) as a way to show participants how
to use one of the most powerful films ever produced the
progression
of severe trauma resolution and the ways trauma should
and should not be handled
About
the Instructor:
Dr. Peterson has been a tenured associate professor of pediatrics
and psychiatry at the University of Nevada School of Medicine
since 1978. In 1998 she transferred to Family Medicine where
she implements the behavioral aspects of family medicine
in the teaching of residents and third year medical students.
She coordinates the psychiatry block for seniors and conducts
a Balint group for the Interns. In addition she teaches freshman
medical students in Behavioral Sciences and Clinical Problem
Solving.
In her clinical practice, Dr. Peterson works with children
suffering from acute and chronic illness with a specialty
in childhood encopresis/enuresis; attention deficit disorder,
diabetes, asthma, and pain or unknown origin. Her clinical
area of expertise is posttraumatic stress disorder, resulting
from sexual, physical and emotional depression and anxiety.
She is certified in hypnosis and mediation.
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