Faculty of Human Medicine

International Conference on Traumatic Stress and Resilience

Module I: Conceptualizing Trauma
  • Topic 1: Historical evolution of the concept of trauma
  • Topic 2: What constitutes a traumatic experience?
  • Topic 3: What differentiates acute trauma from complex trauma and why is this important in clinical practice?
Module II: Resilience and post-traumatic growth
  • Topic 1: Biological aspects of resilience
  • Topic 2: Psychological and social aspects of resilience
  • Topic 3: Post-traumatic growth – A review
Module III: Pearls in the phenomenology associated with trauma
  • Topic 1: Trauma as the arrest of experienced time
  • Topic 2: Trauma and Psychosis
  • Topic 3: The influence of culture and the linguistic equivalents of psychological distress
Module IV: Dissociation
  • Topic 1: Neurobiological models of trauma-associated dissociation
  • Topic 2: Dissociation, trauma and memory
  • Topic 3: Dissociation, trauma and attachment
Module V: Trauma in Specific Populations
  • Topic 1: Vicarious trauma and the importance of caring for the caregiver
  • Topic 2: Trauma in the elderly
  • Topic 3: Pediatric Medical Trauma
Module VI: Early Childhood Trauma
  • Topic 1: Facilitating Attuned-Interactions (FAN): Overview and Clinical Application in Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families (Facilitating Attunement Interactions: Generalities and Clinical Application in Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Their Families)
  • Topic 2: Trauma and behavioral disorder
  • Topic 3: What is developmental trauma disorder?
Module VII: Consequences of trauma throughout life
  • Topic 1: Studies of adverse experiences in childhood and adolescence (ACE Study)
  • Topic 2: Main findings of the Bucharest early intervention project
  • Topic 3: Medical vulnerability in survivors of child abuse and/or neglect – Clinical implications
Module VIII: Trauma, Neuroscience, and Psychopathology
  • Topic 1: The brain's alerting systems – Response, allostatic overload, and clinical correlation
  • Topic 2: The brain's memory systems – Response, allostatic overload and phenomenological correlate
  • Topic 3: The biological embedding model of trauma – Clinical implications
Module IX: Prevention through strengthening resilience
  • Topic 1: Building safe, stable, and enriching relationships between children and caregivers
  • Topic 2: The development of socio-emotional skills in childhood and adolescence as resilience
  • Topic 3: The role of social and community support in resilience in the face of adversity
Module X: Trauma and psychiatric disorders
  • Topic 1: From ecophenotypes to systemic disease
  • Topic 2: The role of trauma in substance use disorders
  • Topic 3: Trauma and borderline personality disorder
Module XI: Mental health in emergencies and disasters
  • Topic 1: Expected reactions and healthy coping; warning signs and dysfunctional coping
  • Topic 2: Possible outcomes after exposure to a potentially traumatic event – Bonanno's trajectories
  • Topic 3: Psychosocial assessment and support for individuals and communities following emergencies and disasters – SMAPS Model
Module XII: Interventions in stress-related disorders
  • Topic 1: Is the three-phase model of trauma intervention still valid?
  • Topic 2: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy – What evidence do we have?
  • Topic 3: Prolonged exposure therapy – Difficulties for the client and the clinician
Module XIII: Interventions for stabilization
  • Topic 1: Dialectical behavior therapy in complex post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Topic 2: What interventions do we have for suicide risk in trauma survivors?
  • Topic 3: “Keeping your feet on the ground” – Stabilization program for people with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative symptoms
Module XIV: Interventions in children and adolescents
  • Topic 1: Informed care in early childhood trauma
  • Topic 2: Child-parent psychotherapy (CPP) (Child-Parent Psychotherapy)
  • Topic 3: Parent-child interaction therapy for toddlers (PCIT-T) (Parent-child interaction therapy for young children)
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