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  • About
  • Collaborators
    • SuEllen Hamkins, M.D.
    • Laura Seftel, LMHC, ATR-BC
    • Tina Champagne
    • Charlie Swenson, M.D.
  • Approaches
    • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
    • Narrative Psychiatry
    • Neurofeedback
    • Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics
    • Occupational Therapy
    • Play Therapy
    • Restraint and Seclusion Reduction
    • Trauma Informed Care
    • Wraparound Care
    • Art Therapy
  • Services
  • Trainings

Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics

The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) developed by Dr. Bruce Perry is an evidence-based, therapeutic approach that is trauma informed and neurodevelopmentally focused.

The NMT clinical assessment is not a therapeutic method but a process designed to create a ‘functional brain map’ that identifies a child’s developmental areas of strength and specific areas of need. This structured assessment map can then provide clearly targeted treatment areas and act as a progress tool.

The primary goals of the NMT approach is to:

  1. Provide education about the neurodevelopmental influence of trauma on the developing child,
  2. Structure the assessment process of at-risk children and youth in a manner that is strength-based, while also identifying primary barriers of current functioning
  3. Identify enrichment, educational, and therapeutic interventions, and ways to sequence interventions, to match each child’s strengths and needs

NMT assessments of the child are designed to help family, educational a therapeutic interdisciplinary treatment teams during the clinical problem solving process within the context a child or youth’s individual needs and goals.

References

Perry, B.D. (2006). The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics: Applying principles of neuroscience to clinical work with traumatized and maltreated children.In Nancy Boyd Webb (Ed.) Working with Traumatized Youth in Child Welfare , pp. 27-52. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Perry, B.D. (2009). Examining child maltreatment through a neurodevelopmental lens: clinical application of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 14, 240-255.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Narrative Psychiatry
  • Neurofeedback
  • Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Play Therapy
  • Restraint and Seclusion Reduction
  • Trauma Informed Care
  • Wraparound Care
  • Art Therapy
  • SuEllen Hamkins, M.D.
  • Charlie Swenson, M.D.
  • Laura Seftel, LMHC, ATR-BC
  • Tina Champagne, OTD, OTR/L, CCAP

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