This document discusses the need for EBT (Emotional Brain Training) and how it works. It explains that traditional interventions often do not sustain improvements after treatment ends. It describes how the brain's stress response can encode false associations, leading people to engage in unhealthy behaviors to seek safety and comfort. EBT aims to help rewire these survival circuits through tools and ongoing support so that positive outcomes are sustained long-term.

1. EBT Connect Basic Certification
Why EBT?
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2. Learning Objectives
• Discuss the need for EBT.
• Describe how EBT works.
• Identify the skills and process of
EBT Basics.
• Describe the role of the EBT Connect
Provider.
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3. Why EBT?
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4. Classic “V” Shaped Outcomes
Example:
Weight regain after
treatment ends.
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5. Example: Weight Management
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6. We need our interventions to
sustain improvements after
treatment ends
Example:
Continued
weight loss
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7. The Triune Brain
Neocortical Brain (prefrontal cortex)
Emotional Brain (mammalian brain and reptilian brain)
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8. Stress Level Dominant Area
Perry, BD (1999) Memories of Fear: How the Brain Stores and Retrieves Physiolgical States,
Feelings, Behaviors and Thoughts from Traumatic Events. The Child Trauma Academy, 1 - 19.
A different brain area in charge
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9. Stress Level Dominant Area
Perry, BD (1999) Memories of Fear: How the Brain Stores and Retrieves Physiolgical States,
Feelings, Behaviors and Thoughts from Traumatic Events. The Child Trauma Academy, 1 - 19.
In stress, the reptilian brain is in charge.
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10. It encodes false
associations
between safety
and whatever
provided comfort
at the time.
“I get my safety
from food.”
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11. These brain glitches
or “survival circuits”
can last a lifetime.
“I get my safety
from video games.”
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12. If it’s not one
excess, then it is
another.
“I get my safety
from drinking.”
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13. Sustaining positive outcomes is
hard when these circuits haven’t
been rewired.
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14. “Why do I keep doing what I
know I shouldn’t do?”
It’s just a wire. YOU can rewire it!
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15. How can we help?
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16. It takes a team!
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17. A New Tool: EBT Connect
The tools and support
tools to rewire!
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