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The polyvagal theory presented in client-friendly language.

This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear explanations of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory, this complex theory is translated into clinician and client-friendly language. Using a unique autonomic mapping process along with worksheets designed to effectively track autonomic response patterns, this book presents practical ways to work with clients' experiences of connection. Through exercises that have been specifically created to engage the regulating capacities of the ventral vagal system, therapists are given tools to help clients reshape their autonomic nervous systems.

Adding a polyvagal perspective to clinical practice draws the autonomic nervous system directly into the work of therapy, helping clients re-pattern their nervous systems, build capacities for regulation, and create autonomic pathways of safety and connection. With chapters that build confidence in understanding Polyvagal Theory, chapters that introduce worksheets for mapping, tracking, and practices for re-patterning, as well as a series of autonomic meditations, this book offers therapists a guide to practicing polyvagal-informed therapy.

The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy is essential reading for therapists who work with trauma and those who seek an easy and accessible way of understanding the significance that Polyvagal Theory has to clinical work.

ISBN-13: 9780393712377

Media Type: Hardcover(New Edition)

Publisher: Norton W. W. & Company Inc.

Publication Date: 06-12-2018

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology

Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, and speaker specializing in complex trauma. She is the leading translator of Dr. Stephen’s Polyvagal Theory for both clinical and general audiences, and the best-selling author of Polyvagal Card Deck, The Polyvagal Flip Chart, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection, The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, and co-editor with Dr. Stephen Porges of Clinical Applications of The Polyvagal Theory (all from W. W. Norton). She trains therapists around the world in how to bring a Polyvagal approach into their clinical practice, and also works with agencies and larger systems to explore how to incorporate a Polyvagal perspective. She is founding member of The Polyvagal Institute, a consultant to Khiron Clinics, and an advisor to Unyte. Visit her website at http://rhythmofregulation.com/. Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory and author of more than 400 papers. He lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida.

Table of Contents

Foreword Stephen W. Porges ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xvii

Section I Befriending The Nervous System 3

Chapter 1 Safety, Danger, and Life-Threat: Adaptive Response Patterns 17

Chapter 2 Autonomic Surveillance: Neuroception 35

Chapter 3 Wired To Connect 44

Section I Summary 49

Section II Mapping The Nervous System 53

Chapter 4 The Personal Profile Map 58

Chapter 5 The Triggers And Glimmers Map 66

Chapter 6 The Regulating Resources Map 72

Section II Summary 78

Section III Navigating The Nervous System 81

Chapter 7 Compassionate Connection 83

Chapter 8 Safely Aware And Able To Attend 100

Chapter 9 Creating Safe Surroundings 110

Section III Summary 119

Section IV Shaping The Nervous System 121

Chapter 10 The Autonomic Nervous System As A Relational System 123

Chapter 11 Toning The System With Breath And Sound 134

Chapter 12 Regulating Through The Body 151

Chapter 13 Vagal Regulation With The Brain In Mind 164

Chapter 14 Intertwined States 178

Section IV Summary 191

Conclusion 192

Appendix: Autonomic Meditations 204

Worksheets 215

References 267

Index 283