Somatic Resources: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach to Stabilising Arousal in Child and Family Treatment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Trauma first and foremost disrupts the normal functioning of the nervous system, leading to extremes of autonomic arousal that often does not return to baseline once traumatic events are over. Dysregulation of arousal is a common feature in relational trauma. Such dysregulation is present for the individuals and for the family unit. When carers are dysregulated their capacities to cope with the challenges of caregiving are compromised. In turn, children are left to manage not only their own dysregulation but also the fluctuations occurring in their carers. Somatic resources and the embodiment of non‐somatic relational resources are efficient for physiological arousal and emotional regulation. Sensorimotor psychotherapy offers a means to better understand arousal and dysregulation as well as employ effective strategies to stabilise children and carers in challenged families. This article will provide a sensorimotor psychotherapy framework that can help in identifying priorities for therapeutic stabilisation efforts for children with abuse and/or neglect histories and their family members. The authors will discuss the value of employing somatic resources in preference to other categories of resources, and suggest practical ways in which to convert any non‐somatic resource into a more embodied experience.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".