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'Trauma on the Brain'

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"She was terrified on a regular basis, after having been beaten and tortured, that she would die or suffer more horrific assaults," Constable Rob Carver after rescuing a kidnapped woman from Ontario who was held captive for months in Winnipeg and forced to work in the city's sex trade. Read more...

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Traumatic experiences, like being trafficked, can cause prolonged stress responses that alter the neurobiology of the brain and central nervous system. Learn more...

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A common tactic of traffickers is to manipulate their victims into believing that they are loved and cared for by the trafficker and that, as a result, they are beholden to the trafficker. Learn more...

Interested in learning more? Take the full course! EENet’s online course will help service providers recognize and respond to the needs of human trafficking survivors. 

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This looks great.  Having access to this kind of training is so important, if we are to assist those who have been so deeply wounded by their experiences of exploitation and captivity.

On some level, I hope the day comes when the headline for this kind of training could read: "Trauma and we Human Beings."

As trauma therapists, we do focus on deeper brain structures - limbic, midbrain and brainstem - as well as on the autonomic nervous system.  But we are also in our hearts and in our bodies.  At its best, trauma therapy is a deeply human encounter, just as trauma is a deeply human experience, and much of these experience exist outside of the brain and in much larger embodied and interpersonal frameworks.

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Harry posted:

This looks great.  Having access to this kind of training is so important, if we are to assist those who have been so deeply wounded by their experiences of exploitation and captivity.

On some level, I hope the day comes when the headline for this kind of training could read: "Trauma and we Human Beings."

As trauma therapists, we do focus on deeper brain structures - limbic, midbrain and brainstem - as well as on the autonomic nervous system.  But we are also in our hearts and in our bodies.  At its best, trauma therapy is a deeply human encounter, just as trauma is a deeply human experience, and much of these experience exist outside of the brain and in much larger embodied and interpersonal frameworks.

Thanks for highlighting a very important point! 

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