Training: Dr. Bruce Perry's Concept of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics
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Presented by:
Julia Rose M. Polk, M.A.
JuliaRoseMP@hotmail.com
A Biologically-Informed Assessment Tool
First Task:
Understand the Brain
Not to replace other assessment tools, but to compliment them.
Second Task:
Respect How it Works
Aston, M. (2014). How the brain works and why you should know. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141123180929-4078391-how-the-brain-works-and-why-you-should-know
"Before you choose brain-based strategies to use with your own students, an educator has to know that the brain stem and the midbrain [two lowest levels] must be
stimulated before higher
order thinking can
happen in the
classroom.”
-Kate Toussaint
The Stress
Response System
Stress - in manageable doses - is actually healthy
and essential to a child's development.
ChildTrauma.org
"Neuro-Sequential"
Fourth Task:
Shift our perspectives on children,
their drives and human nature,
and how they learn.
There's a sequence to development!
Look at our language.
Practice empathy.
Third Task:
Work Within Its Functioning Capabilities
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) is a developmentally sensitive, neurobiology-informed approach to clinical problem solving.
NMT is not a specific therapeutic technique or intervention.
Dr. Bruce Perry
Internationally-respected Child Psychiatrist
Humans are inherently social animals.
Senior Fellow at ChildTrauma Academy in Houston
Children inherently want to please their caregivers.
When they're demonstrating difficult behaviors, it’s not that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong... It’s that their bodies are reactive, and are responding (from the lower parts of the brain)
before they are able to.
Because of this, our relationships with each other are the most inherently rewarding or destructive forces in our lives.
Completed residency at Yale School of Medicine and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at University of Chicago
Expert Witness in cases such as:
Columbine High School Massacre
Oklahoma City Bombing
Yearning for Zion Ranch Custody Cases
Waco Siege
Teachers, Therapists, Interventionists, etc. are a part of a child's attachment network.
Degradation of extended family.
ACTIVATE THE RELATIONAL REWARD SYSTEM!
Peter P. vs. Compton Unified School District
Because humans are so relationship-based,
use those to navigate difficult and positive experiences with the child together...
Rather than punitive punishments or consequences, take the opportunity to become relational and transparent with the child... it strengthens the relationship!
(2015)
PLAN B
Or... Relational Interventions.
Empathy Step:
Gather info so as to identify child’s concerns. Her/his point of view.
Define Adult Concerns Step:
Identify adult’s concerns.
*Story about young boy in-patient wandering the halls.
Invitation step:
Brainstorm and select solutions that are realistic and mutually beneficial.
Ross Greene. (2016). Changing the paradigm. ECHO Parenting & Education Conference.
www.TraumaAndLearning.org
We are moving towards understanding children as they actually are, not how we want or expect them to be.
Children are often expected to be older and
more developed than they actually are.