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1. Tsuchimochi, S. (2010, July). The possibility of EMDR use with juvenile delinquents. Poster presented at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of EMDR use with juvenile delinquents, such as improvements
of physical and mental mal-adjustment, emotion control, self-recognition and attitudes toward others. It also examined under which conditions in the judicial proceedings, it is possible to apply the EMDR therapy to juveniles. Methods: Three
delinquents whose cases were in the Family Court process, were selected as participants in view of effectiveness, safety
and validity. The measurement scales are as follows: (a)IES-R, (b)the Life Gram ( a wavy line drawn by the participant to
describe ones own life from the birth to present in the range of +10 and -10.), (c)SUDs, VOC, (d)self-reported impression by
the participant, and (e)observation by the writer. Self-tapping on knees under the instruction by the writer was used as the
bilateral stimulation. Each participant was interviewed four or five times during 4 weeks. Baseline measurements were done
on 1st or 2nd interview, while post measurements were done on 4th or 5th interview after the EMDR session was held on
3rd or 4th time. Results: Results showed clear improvements by one EMDR intervention in two cases out of three. Insufficient
care could be the reason for the absence of improvement with one participant. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest
that the EMDR is effective for the improvements of the various symptoms and problems of the juvenile delinquents, if being
properly applied on the certain guidelines set for them.
Keywords: Juvenile Delinquents Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
2. 松本 慶太 , 杉山 登志郎 [Matsumoto Keita & Sugiyama Toshiro]. (2010). 被虐待児の治療 (特集 家族と暴力) [Treatment of abused children (Family Violence Special)]. 児童青年精神医学とその近接領域 51(3), 275-280 [Japanese Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51(3), 275-280].
Language: Japanese
Format: Journal
Keywords: Abuse Children Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
3. Βεντουράτου, Δ. [Ventouratos, D.] (2004. Μιά νέα ελπίδα για τη θεραπεία ψυχικών τραυμάτων [A new hope for treating trauma]. Αθήνα, Ελλάδα Ελευθεροτυπία [Athens, Greece: Free Press][3 pages].
Language: Greek
Format: Other
Μια νεαρή γυναίκα, η Μαρία, δέκα εβδομάδες μετά από να υποστεί μια συντριβή αυτοκινήτων από τους ισχυρούς πονοκεφάλους και πόνους στο λαιμό. Οι δοκιμές, όμως έδειξε ότι δεν υπάρχει καμία οργανική βλάβη. τρομάζει εύκολα, ειδικά όταν είναι σε ένα αυτοκίνητο (φοβάται xanaodigisei μετά το ατύχημα). Η ξαφνική ήχος της κόρνας του προκαλεί πανικό. Όπως μπορεί να αποφύγει να βγουν στον δρόμο, ακόμη και τα πόδια της κυκλοφορίας. Η νύχτα ξυπνά μούσκεμα στον ιδρώτα, ενώ οι εικόνες από ατύχημα δεν τους αφήσουμε να κοιμηθεί. Αισθάνεται ένοχος και κατηγορεί τον εαυτό της ότι δεν ήταν αρκετά προσεκτικοί (από τη σύγκρουση τραυματίστηκαν ο οδηγός του άλλου αυτοκινήτου), επειδή δεν είναι σε θέση να θυμηθεί τι ακριβώς συνέβη. Η οικογένεια θεωρεί αλλάξει, είναι μελαγχολική και κλεισμένη στον εαυτό της.
A young woman, Mary, ten weeks after suffering an automobile
crash from strong headaches and neck pain. The tests, however,
showed that there is no organic lesion. frightens easily, especially when it is
in a car (she is afraid xanaodigisei after the accident). The sudden
sound of a horn of causing panic. As can avoid to go out on road
even foot traffic. The night awakens soaked in sweat, while images from
accident did not let them sleep. He feels guilty and blames herself that
was not careful enough (from the collision injured the driver of the other
car), because they are not able to remember exactly what happened. The
family finds it changed, it is melancholy and closed in on itself.
Keywords: Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
4. Spuijbroek, P. (2013, April). A(S/l)S het samen kan: EMDR in de systeemtherapie [A (S / L) S together can: EMDR in the treatment system]. Presentatie op het congres EMDR Vereniging EMDR Nederland, Nijmegen, Nederland.
Language: Dutch
Format: Conference
Bij het behandelen van kinderen met autisme wordt steeds meer een systemische aanpak gehanteerd. Daar waar het in de ouderbegeleiding vooral over psycho educatie en rouwverwerking gaat rond het autisme, staat in de gezinstherapie het systeem centraal en de samenwerking tussen de gezinsleden, rekening houdend met overeenkomsten en verschillen. Bij het gebruik van de EMDR binnen de gezinstherapie levert dit soms verrassende situaties op die op eigen wijze bijdragen aan veranderingen welke van te voren niet werden te voorzien.
In deze workshop worden een drietal casussen besproken waarbij (delen van) het gezin betrokken zijn. De aangemelde casussen zijn een jongen met laag zelfbeeld, een preverbaal trauma bij een geadopteerd meisje en een meisje dat dreigt zichzelf te beschadigen. Alle drie de kinderen zijn kinderen met ASS. Maar wat gebeurt er tijdens gecombineerde systeem-EMDR sessie?
In de presentatie neem ik deelnemers mee in woord en beeld en ga in gesprek.
When treating children with autism is becoming a systemic approach. Where in the parent guidance particularly on psychoeducation and bereavement goes around autism, family therapy is in the central system and the cooperation between family members, taking into account similarities and differences. With the use of EMDR in family therapy yields some surprising situations which in their own way contribute to changes which in advance were not providing.
In this workshop, three cases are discussed in which (parts of) the family involved. The notified cases are a boy with low self-esteem, a preverbal trauma in an adopted girl and a girl who threatens to harm himself. All three children are children with ASD. But what happens when combined system EMDR session?
In the presentation I take Participants in words and pictures and talk to them.
Keywords: Family Systems Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
5. Beccari, A. (2008). Abuso sessuale sui minori: Il sostegno alle giovani vittime [On child sexual abuse: Support for young victims]. Universita Degli Studi di Parma, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract: Il filo conduttore di questo report sarà il trauma.
La prima parte sarà incentrata sulla definizione di trauma, sulle risposte adattive e su quelle
patologiche di fronte ad un evento negativo e sulle variabili individuali e soggettive che
determinano nellindividuo un vissuto traumatico. Questultimo aspetto, infatti, sappiamo
essere fondamentale per capire la differenza che intercorre tra le diverse reazioni (emotiva,
cognitiva e comportamentale) delle persone che si trovano ad essere esposte anche al
medesimo evento disturbante.
La seconda sezione sarà invece dedicata al trauma dei bambini e alle diverse modalità di
condurre un assessment adeguato.
La terza parte si concentrerà, nello specifico, sul trauma da abuso sessuale: ne prenderà in
considerazione la definizione, le conseguenze a breve e medio-lungo termine nonchè le
possibilità di sostegno alle giovani vittime di abuso sessuale intra ed extra familiare. Inoltre
verrà trattata una tecnica piuttosto recente dimostratasi efficace nel trattamento del Disturbo
Post-traumatico da Stress negli adulti come nei bambini: lEMDR (eye movement
desensitization and reprocessing).
The theme of this report is trauma.
The first part will focus on the definition of trauma, and those on adaptive responses
pathological in the face of a negative event and the individual variables and subjective
determine in the individual a traumatic experience. This latter aspect, in fact, we know
be crucial to understand the difference between the different reactions (emotional,
cognitive and behavioral) of persons who are to be presented on the
same event disturbing.
The second section will be devoted to the trauma of children and the different modes of
conduct a proper assessment.
The third part will focus specifically on the trauma of sexual abuse: it will take
consider the definitions, the short-and medium-long term as well as the
possibility of support for young victims of sexual abuse within and outside the family. also
will be treated fairly new technique proved effective in treating the disorder
Post-traumatic Stress in adults as in children: EMDR (eye movement
desensitization and reprocessing).
Keywords: Children Sexual Abuse
Accuracy Verified: Yes
6. Tarrier, N., Liversidge, T., & Gregg, L. (2006, November). The acceptability and preference for the psychological treatment for PTSD. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44(11), 1643-1656. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2005.11.012.
Language: English
Format: Journal
The acceptability and preference of psychological treatments is important in understanding patient treatment seeking, choice, engagement and attrition and possibly treatment response in health care. The acceptability of, and preference for, 14 different types of psychological treatment for PTSD were investigated in a student population through invitation to participate in a web-based survey. Respondents were asked to rate each treatment on 10 scales and to rank the treatments in order of preference. Respondents were also asked whether they would seek treatment themselves, recommend treatment to friends and family, feel stigmatised by suffering from PTSD, had any prior knowledge of the treatments and if this had been positive or negative, and whether they had a history of psychological problems or treatment. A total of 330 respondents completed the survey. A past or current history of psychological problems and treatment was surprisingly high. Almost all respondents indicated that they would seek or recommend treatment in spite of high levels of stigmatisation. Factor analysis of the 10 scales indicated two factors: Endorsement and Discomfort. Rank ordering on preference and Endorsement scores was highly consistent. The highly preferred and endorsed treatments involved cognitive therapy, exposure, or psycho-education in spite of high levels of discomfort anticipated with exposure. Treatments involving new technologies, EMDR, and psychodynamic psychotherapy received the lowest Endorsement and preference. There was a modest influence of prior knowledge of a treatment. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy Cognitive Therapy Exposure Therapy College Students Computer Assisted Psychotherapy Empirical Study Family Therapy Group Psychotherapy Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Preference Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Psychological Treatment Psychotherapeutic Processes PTSD Quantitative Study Relaxation Therapy Treatment Acceptability Virtual Reality Exposure Web-Based Survey
Accuracy Verified: Yes
7. Crow, C., & Sause, E. (2007, June). Accessing preverbal trauma for effective adult EMDR. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Recent research (Moberg, 2003, The Oxytocin Factor) indicates the potential of early pre-verbal trauma to set up biochemical and neurological responses which activate certain triggers. Since the touchstone event is pre-verbal, it is difficult to identify, but crucial in the resolution of later traumas resistant to full EMDR processing (Those who remain stuck at a greater than 0 SUDs). The antedotal experience is that this model can activate the material more fully and facilitate more thorough competion of phases 4-8. "Once upon a Time" contains every element of the EMDR Protocol in the prescribed order, Incident, Image, NC, PC, VOC, Emotion, SUD, Body sensation. This experimental model is not a substitute for standard EMDR. It facilitates access tohese preverbal traumas and the resultant cognitions which may have formed around them. It allows for a return to the standard EMDR protocol after this early material has been effectively targeted and reprocessed. "Once Upon a Time" model allows for fuller connection with early material. History is collected through antedotal information from third party informants and family photographs and is used to create a metaphor; this technique can access the multiple modalities of pre-verbal experience previously intellectualized. Phase three begins with a short continuation of Phase 1 using an interview format to review and briefly discuss the various elements of the troubling material. A "sentence completion" format is used to obtain the TICES elements. Those spontaneous answers form the script for a "Once Upon a Time" (Crow, 2004, EMDRIA Montreal, Canada), a deviation from Phase 4 of the standard protocol. Pertinent examples of the application of this model will be discussed and demonstrated with video taped excerpts of actual clients. Video taped client reports of the long term effect of the shifts resulting from the "Once Upon a Time" experience will provide validation that this technique enables retur to the standard EMDR protocol and full processing of previously incompletely processed material. Participants will create their own "Once Upon a Time" script from a video example of client history as an experiential introduction to the intricacies of this model. Evidence indicates that this technique is effective on a "consultant" basis, where the "Once Upon a Time" can be conducted by a separate therapist skilled in the technique, and returned to their regular EMDR therapist to complete this treatment. Currently a study is underway utilizing a pre/post text design (N=10) and statistical analysis of the results to measure the quantitative change within the client.
Keywords: Model Poster Preverbal Trauma Theory
Accuracy Verified: Yes
8. Shapiro, F. (2003, September). Adaptive information processing and case conceptualization. Plenary presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Denver, CO.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR is guided by the Adaptive Information Processing paradigm, which differentiates it from other forms of psychotherapy. The model was
formulated to describe clinical phenomena observed in EMDR, successfully
predict treatment effects, and guide clinical practice. These principles, along with EMDR protocols, and procedures will be used to evaluate
various trends in EMDR clinical practice. Clinical cases and questions collected from particlpants will be used to illustrate the ways in which EMDR can be applied.
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model Adolescents Cognitive Processes AIP Cognitive Processes Family Systems Therapy Females Integrative Psychotherapy Memories Plenary Psychotherapeutic Processes Self Concept
Accuracy Verified: Yes
9. Shapiro, F. (2005, June). Adaptive information processing and case conceptualization. Keynote presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Brussels, Belgium.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR is guided by the Adaptive Information Processing paradigm, which
differentiates it from other forms of psychotherapy. The model was
formulated to describe clinical phenomena observed in EMDR, successfully
predict treatment effects, and guide clinical practice. These principles,
along with EMDR protocols and procedures will be used to discuss a wide
range of clinical applications, ranging from acute through chronic and
complex conditions.
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model Adolescents AIP Cognitive Processes Family Systems Therapy Females Integrative Psychotherapy Keynote Memories Psychotherapeutic Processes Self Concept
Accuracy Verified: Yes
10. Shapiro, F. (2004, September). Adaptive information processing: EMDR clinical applications and case conceptualizations. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Montreal, Quebec Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR is guided by the Adaptive Information Procesing paradigm, which differentiates it from other forms of psychotherapy. The implications of this paradigm will be explored in relation to a variety of recent clinical case studies and research reports. Questions from participants will be used to explore potential clinical applications, and to hone case conceptualization skills.
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model Adolescents AIP Females Memories Cognitive Processes Family Systems Therapy Integrative Psychotherapy Psychotherapeutic Processes Self Concept
Accuracy Verified: Yes
11. Molero-Zafra, M., & Perez-Marin, M. (2011, Julio). Adopcion: Un protocolo basado en EMDR, terapia familiar narrativa y la teoria del apego [Adoption: A protocol based on EMDR, family therapy, narrative and attachment theory]. En Aplicación de EMDR en el tratamiento de distintos trastornos (Francisca García Guerrero, Coordinadora). Simposio realizado en el IX Congreso Nacional de Psicología Clínica, San Sebastián, España .
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
La adopción es un tema actual, cuyo interés crece progresivamente. Su vigencia
social resulta incuestionable si atendemos al incremento exponencial de niños adoptados
por familias españolas, especialmente en adopciones internacionales. La Ley de Adopción
vigente en España contempla la adopción como un recurso de protección para aquellos
niños/as que no puedan permanecer en su propia familia. Para que se cumpla este objetivo
deben arbitrarse todos los mecanismos necesarios que garanticen al niño una familia capaz
de asegurar las atenciones propias de la función parental (atención, desarrollo y
Los niños adoptados pueden sufrir trastornos como cualquier otro niño, ahora bien,
sus experiencias de vida anteriores pueden afectar en mayor grado su desarrollo
emocional, social y familiar. Las experiencias vinculares durante la infancia, influyen
significativamente en la capacidad para formar relaciones íntimas y emocionalmente
saludables. Asimismo, para la formación y cambio de actitudes a lo largo de nuestra vida,
van a ser fundamentales nuestros grupo de referencia, siendo la familia uno de los más
importantes (López et al., 1999). La empatía, el afecto, el deseo de compartir, el inhibirse
de agredir, la capacidad de amar y ser amado y un sinnúmero de características de una
persona asertiva, operativa y feliz, están asociadas a las capacidades medulares de apego
formadas en la infancia y niñez temprana (Punset, 2008).
El objetivo de esta comunicación es presentar un protocolo de abordaje psicológico
ante las dificultades que afectan a las familias con problemas de adaptación en casos de
adopción. Partiendo de la perspectiva conceptual de la teoría del apego, intentamos
promover en estas familias una base de apego seguro, mediante el uso de herramientas
terapéuticas de la terapia familiar narrativa y el EMDR. Se presenta el protocolo elaborado
para tal fin y un caso para la comprensión de la aplicación del tratamiento.
Adoption is a current issue, whose interest grows gradually. Its validity
social is unquestionable if we consider the exponential increase of adopted children
Spanish families, especially in international adoptions. The Adoption Act
force in Spain provides for the adoption as a source of protection for those
children / as not to remain in their own family. To fulfill this objective
must be put all the necessary mechanisms to guarantee the child a family able
to secure the attentions of parenting (care, development and
Adopted children may suffer from disorders like any other child, however,
previous life experiences can affect their development to a greater extent
emotional, social and family life. Relational experiences during childhood influence
significantly in the ability to form intimate and emotionally
healthy. Also, for the formation and change of attitudes throughout our lives,
will be essential to our reference group, the family being one of the most
important (Lopez et al., 1999). Empathy, affection, desire to share, the inhibited
of attack, the ability to love and be loved and a host of features of a
assertive person, operational and happy, are associated with the core competencies of attachment
formed in infancy and early childhood (Punset, 2008). The aim of this paper is to present a protocol of psychological approach
to the difficulties affecting families with adjustment problems in cases of
adoption. From the conceptual perspective of attachment theory, we try in these families to promote a secure attachment base through the use of tools therapeutic narrative family therapy and EMDR. We present a protocol developed
for this purpose and a case for understanding the application of the treatment.
Keywords: Adoption Attachment theory Family Therapy Narrative Theory Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
12. Molero-Zafra, M., & Pérez-Marín, M. (2009, June). Adopción: Un protocolo basado en EMDR, terapia familiar narrativa y la tería del apego [Adoption: a protocol base on EMDR, narrativ family therapy and the theory of attachment]. Mosaico, 42, 20-27.
Language: Spanish
Format: Magazine
El objetivo e nuestro articulo es plantear un protocolo de abordaje psicológico ante las dificultades que afectan a las familias con problemas de adaptación en casos de adopción. Partiendo de la perspectiva conceptual de la teoría del apego, intentamos promover en estas familias una base de apego seguro, mediante el uso de herramientas terapéuticas de la terapia famliar narrativa y el EMDR.
The goal and our article is to propose a protocol of psychological approach to the difficulties affecting families with problems of adjustment in cases of adoption. From the conceptual perspective of attachment theory, these families are trying to promote a secure attachment base, through the use of therapeutic tools of traditional family narrative therapy and EMDR.
Keywords: Adoption Attachment Family Narrative Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
13. Litt, B. (2008). Advanced techniques in the use of EMDR to treat complex trauma. www.barrylittmft.com.
Language: English
Format: Other
Pathogenic family dynamics (relational
configurations) are internalized as ego state
The resulting ego state system is a structured
complementation of the loyalty system
The subjective sense of Self (and corresponding
relational attitude) is adaptive to the original,
formative context[Excerpt]
Keywords: Complex Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
14. Miller, E. (1992, December). Anorexia, body image, and self-acceptance. EMDR Network Newsletter, 2(2), 2.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
From the ages of 6 to 13, Melody, who
was a gymnast, practiced 6 to 8 hours
per day and was thin, lean, and wiry.
She cut back on her athletics to focus
on schoolwork, but by her senior
year in high school had begun a
dietary regimen to try to regain her
13 year-old body. This was a goal
that seemed healthy in her mind,
had been promoted as healthy by her
exercise-addicted family, and was the
image she saw paid homage to in the
Keywords: Acceptance Anorexia Body Image
Accuracy Verified: Yes
15. Tarquinio, C., Houbre, B., Fayard, A., & Tarquinio, P. (2009, October-December). Application de lEMDR au deuil traumatique après une collision de train [EMDR applied for traumatic bereavement after train collision]. LEvolution Psychiatrique, 74(4), 567-580. doi:10.1016/j.evopsy.2009.09.004.
Language: French
Format: Journal
Cette étude exploratoire a pour objectif de tester lapplication de la thérapie Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing (EMDR) dans le cadre de la prise en charge du deuil traumatique. Le deuil traumatique, qui
correspond à la perte brutale dun autre significatif, répond à un tableau clinique précis dont les principales
caractéristiques sont les pensées intrusives concernant le défunt et des difficultés dajustement face à la
perte (sentiment de vide, difficultés à reconnaître le décès, irritabilité, absence de réactivité, etc.). Les huit
participants de létude sont tous des membres de la famille des victimes de la collision de train qui a eu lieu
le 12 octobre 2006 à Zoufftgen. Les sujets, âgés en moyenne de 35,2 ans (S.D. = 11,1) et comprenant 75%de
femmes, ont suivi entre huit à 15 séances (m = 10,75 ; S.D. = 2,21) répondant au protocole EMDR. Lefficacité
de la thérapie a été évaluée à partir de plusieurs critères comprenant la mesure du deuil traumatique, de
lanxiété, de la dépression et de la détresse psychologique. Cinq évaluations ont été réalisées : avant la prise
en charge (T0), après six séances (T1), à la fin de la prise en charge (T2), puis à trois mois (T3) et 12 mois
(T4) après la fin de la thérapie. Les principaux résultats semblent indiquer une efficacité de la prise en charge
EMDR. En effet, on note une diminution de tous les indicateurs entre le début (T0) et la fin de la prise en charge (T2). En outre, lorsque cette diminution ne se poursuit pas à trois et à 12 mois, elle reste, au minimum,
stable à un an. Ces premières observations sont dautant plus encourageantes que 10 à 15% des patients
endeuillés peuvent développer une dépression chronique.
The aim of this exploratory study is to test the application of therapy EMDR in case of traumatic bereavement.
The traumatic bereavement, which corresponds to the brutal loss of significant other, answers
a precise clinical picture whose principal characteristics are the intrusive thoughts concerning the late one
and of the difficulties of adjustment to the loss (feeling of vacuum, difficulties of recognizing the death,
irritability, lack of reactivity, etc). The eight participants all of this study are of the members of the family
of the victims of the train collision, which took place on October 12, 2006 in Zoufftgen. The subjects, old
on average 35.2 years (S.D. = 11.1) and including 75% women, followed between eight to 15 meetings
(m = 10.75, S.D. = 2.21) answering protocol EMDR. The effectiveness of the therapy was evaluated starting
from several criteria including traumatic bereavement, anxiety, depression and psychological distress. Five
evaluations were carried out: before the therapy (T0), after six meetings (T1), at the end of the therapy (T2),
then in three months (T3) and 12 months (T4) after the end of the therapy. The principal results seem to
indicate an effectiveness of the therapy EMDR. Indeed, we observe a reduction in all the indicators between
the beginning (T0) and the end of the therapy (T2). Moreover, when this reduction does not continue to three
and 12 months, it remains, at least, stable at one year. These observations are very encouraging especially
when it is known that 10 to 15% of the patient develops a chronic depression.
Keywords: Affective Disorder Anxiety Depression Traumatic Bereavement
Accuracy Verified: Yes
16. De Divitiis, A. M. (2008, Novembre). Applicazione dello sviluppo e installazione delle risorse (RDI) nella psicoprofilassi al parto finalizzata alla prevenzione delle depressione post partum (DPP) [Application of resource development and installation (RDI) in psychoprophylaxis geared to the prevention of postpartum depression(DPP)]. Presentazione le Applicazioni Cliniche del EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Dagli ultimi dati statistici risulta che la Depressione Post Partum viene sviluppata da circa il 13% delle puerpere nel corso del secondo terzo mese successivi al parto e la durata dei sintomi varia da qualche settimana ad un anno, con rischi di recidiva.
A differenza del Baby Blues (colpisce il 70% delle puerpere, insorge in III VI giornata e si risolve spontaneamente nellarco di un paio di settimane), imputabile essenzialmente alle fisiologiche modificazioni ormonali (calo degli estrogeni e progesterone) dellim-mediato post partum, lo sviluppo della DPP sembrerebbe invece essere determinata da fattori di natura strettamente psicologica: lesperienza del parto, il riemergere di problematiche irrisolte nelle relazioni con le figure di attaccamento, il cambiamento di ruolo della donna sia nellambito sociale che allinterno della coppia, il timore di non essere in grado di attendere adeguatamente alle nuove responsabilità (sia sul piano delle proprie capacità, che del nuovo carico di fatica fisica), ecc.
Le donne che hanno vissuto il parto come esperienza traumatica risultano essere maggiormente destabilizzate da tale evento e quindi maggiormente esposte allo sviluppo della DPP.
Il parto richiede alla donna il reclutamento di molteplici risorse personali. Nel corso del travaglio la donna deve riuscire a contenere il dolore, mentre nella fase dellespulsione le viene richiesto inoltre di spingere, ossia di contrastare una reazione antalgica automatica (che chiuderebbe il canale da parto) per andare invece incontro al dolore. Se consideriamo che le Prestazioni di Picco si caratterizzano per essere al di fuori del proprio ambito di sicurezza, di agio e di conforto, nel tentativo di oltrepassare il limite estremo delle proprie capacità, lesperienza del parto può essere inscritta a pieno titolo nelle Prestazioni di Picco.
Nel presente lavoro vengono descritte le modalità e i tempi di applicazione del RDI nel corso della Preparazione al Parto, finalizzata al rafforzamento delle diverse risorse personali di cui ogni gestante ha bisogno per poter vivere il parto come esperienza egosintonica. In tal senso lRDI, tramite EMDR, è da considerarsi un vero e proprio Intervento di Prevenzione Primaria, in grado di insegnare alle donne qualcosa di positivo riguardo sé stesse, contrastando efficacemente linsorgere della DPP. Verranno esposti, inoltre, i risultati dellapplicazione di tale tecnica su 48 gestanti, raccolti nella fase del Post Partum.
The latest statistics show that postpartum depression is developed by about 13% of mothers during the second to third months after delivery and the duration of symptoms varies from few weeks to a year, with risks of recurrence. Unlike the Baby Blues (affects 70% of mothers, occurs in III - VI day and resolves spontaneously within a couple of weeks), largely because of the physiological hormonal changes (decline in estrogen and progesterone) of IM-mediated post-partum, the development of the DPP seems to be determined by factors strictly psychological: the experience of childbirth, the resurgence of unresolved issues in relations with attachment figures, the changing role of women both in social the couple, the fear of not being able to wait adequately to new responsibility (both in terms of its ability, that the new burden of physical labor, etc.). Women who have experienced childbirth as a traumatic experience become more undermined by this event and, therefore, at greater risk of developing the DPP. The birth of the woman requires the recruitment of many personal resources. During the "Labor" the woman must be able to contain the pain, while in phase the 'expulsion' is the also required to "push", i.e. a reaction to counter analgesic automatic (which close the channel by birth) to go instead "to meet the pain." If we consider that "Peak Performance" are characterized by being "outside" the extent of its security, ease and comfort, in an attempt to go beyond the bounds of their abilities, experience delivery can be fully inscribed in the "peak performance". The present paper describes the methods and timing of application of RDI during the preparation for childbirth, which aims to reinforce the various personal resources which each pregnant woman needs to live the experience of childbirth as ego syntonic. In this sense, the RDI, through EMDR is considered true primary prevention interventions that can teach women something positive about themselves to effectively counter the rise DPP. Will be exposed, in addition, the results of applying this technique on 48 pregnant women, collected at the stage of post-partum.
Keywords: Postpartum Depression RDI Resource Development and Installation
Accuracy Verified: Yes
17. De Sensi Fontera, A. (2008, Novembre). Applicazione dellEMDR i soggetto di 9 anni affetto da ADHD [Applying EMDR the subject of 9 years with ADHD]. Poster presentato al Applicazioni Cliniche dell'EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
LEMDR è stato applicato in un caso di una ragazza danni nove, Iris, affetta da ADHD (DSM IV F90. 0). LEMDR è stato integrato in un percorso di psicoterapia classica e con interventi sullinterazione dei sistemi Famiglia, Sanità, Scuola. LEMDR è stato rivolto anche alle figure parentali per elaborare alcuni degli eventi traumatici che avevano contribuito allo sviluppo del disturbo nella bambina e, in particolare, per la madre sulla diagnosi. Il ruolo dellEMDR è stato significativo nella risoluzione dei sintomi e ha contribuito allefficacia dellintervento complessivo.
E stato particolarmente efficace per la risoluzione della coazione a ripetere e per lintegrazione intrapsichica della personalità dIris.
EMDR has been applied in a case of a girl of nine years, Iris, who suffers from ADHD (DSM -- IV F90. 0). EMDR has been integrated into a course of psychotherapy and classical interventions interaction of the family system, Health, School. EMDR has been addressed also to the figures parental to process some of the traumatic events that had contributed to the development of disorder in children and, in particular, for the mother on the diagnosis. The role of EMDR was significant in the resolution of symptoms and has contributed to the effectiveness of the intervention overall. It 'been particularly effective for the resolution of the "repetition compulsion" and Integration Intrapsychic personality of Iris.
Keywords: ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
18. Verzolatto, N. (2008, Novembre). Applicazioni patriche dell'EMDR in ambito ospedaliero [Applications practice EMDR in hospitals]. Presentazione le Applicazioni Cliniche del EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
In ambito ospedaliero lintervento psicologico presenta peculiarità che rispondono ad alcune caratteristiche come :
- la velocità di intervento;
- l esigenza di applicare protocolli rapidi ed efficaci.
La necessità della rapidità è data dal fatto che il paziente allettato è generalmente in sofferenza fisica (spesso è presente dolore) oltre che psicologica e quindi non disponibile ad indagini ed interventi di tipo tradizionale (come assesment prolungati o studio approfondito della biografia);
lefficacia è intesa nel senso che gli strumenti devono centrare la domanda dellinviante, che solitamente non è il paziente ma il reparto di degenza, e devono intervenire sul disagio del paziente che spesso esprime sintomi specifici.
Generalmente i motivi per i quali vengono richieste le consulenze sono ascrivibili ad alcune precise categorie diagnostiche quali:
-PTSD e PTSD sottosoglia. Riguardano generalmente: le comunicazioni di diagnosi gravi e/o prognosi infausta, sia nel paziente che nel familiare; eventi traumatici quali la violenza sessuale e domestica, traumi per incidenti, traumi per ricoveri in reparti particolari come le Stroke Unit o le Unità di Rianimazione).
-disturbi dansia e DAP. Rientrano in questa categoria le consulenze per le fobie per sala operatoria, per lanestesia, la paura del non risveglio e i timori per esiti del post-interveto (per es. nel caso di prostatectomie o laringectomie).
Nei casi sopra citati luso dellEMDR diventa spesso lo strumento delezione per le peculiarità proprie che rispondono perfettamente alle caratterizzazioni sopra citate.
Nellworkshop si confronterà lesperienza di tale attività e si discuterà di come luso dellEMDR risponda per efficacia e velocità alle esigenze sopra esplicitate.
Psychological intervention in the hospital has special features that meet certain characteristics such as:
- The speed of intervention;
- 'S need to implement protocols for rapid and effective.
The need for speed is the fact that the patient is usually bedridden physical suffering (pain is often present) as well as psychological and therefore not available to traditional investigations and interventions (such as prolonged or assesment study of the biography);
effectiveness is understood that the instruments must hit dell'inviante demand, which is usually not the patient but the ward and must act on the discomfort of the patient often expresses specific symptoms.
Usually the reasons for which are claimed are attributable to some specific advice diagnostic categories such as:
-PTSD and subthreshold PTSD. Generally relate to: the Communications Diagnostic serious and / or poor prognosis, both in the patient in family trauma such as sexual and domestic violence, trauma caused by accidents, trauma admissions to particular departments as the Stroke Unit or the Intensive Care Unit) .
-Anxiety disorders and CAD. This category includes advice for phobias to the operating room, anesthesia, fear of not waking up and fears of post-surgical outcomes (eg. In the case of prostatectomy or laryngectomy).
In the above cases the use EMDR is often the tool of choice for the special features that perfectly meet the above characterizations.
Nell'workshop you compare the experience of this activity and will explore how to use EMDR effectiveness and speed to meet the requirements spelled out above.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
19. Lecoq, J. C. (2007, June). Applied EMDR in sport in the World Equestrian Games of Aachen. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
I had only three weeks to work. Only 15 days to restore self-confidence, serenity, and determination for a woman rider. One week during the competition.
The woman rider had a bad experience during the Olympic Games of Athens. She had the best and the worst during the Olympic Games, The best was a bronze model and 0 mistakes during the jump.
The worst, she made several mistakes and fell down with her horse.
I felt during the first meeting a big atmosphere of fragility (no self confidence, no serenity, big stress) because there were difficulties with her ex-husband and family (her boys).
We had a short time and I decided to use an arrangement with mental imagery and specific EMDR exercise, like butterfly exercise, to install peak performance.
I used Sam Fosters protocol for the sport and butterfly technique. We began with a SUD=8 and VOC=6 and the SUD finished at 2. This combination gave an amazing result because she rode well and she had a good result in these world equestrian games of AAchen (semi final: 23 place).
The specific exercise in EMDR (butterfly exercise) permits a peal performance in a few times. I gave you an example about the power of EMDR in sport.
Keywords: Aachen Horses Poster Sports World Equestrian Games
Accuracy Verified: Yes
20. Devilly, G. J. (2004, December). An approach to psychotherapy toleration: The Distress/Endorsement Toleration Scale (DEVS) clinical outcome studies. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 35(4), 319-336. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2004.08.001.
Language: English
Format: Journal
The issue of treatment tolerance within the field of psychotherapy is, at best, a nebulous construct and has been commonly evaluated via rates of subject attrition and homework compliance. This research presents the psychometric properties of a ten-item scale which endeavours to measure treatment distress and participant endorsement of therapy protocols used in clinical research. Two factors emerged and the subscales of Distress and Endorsement were derived. These subscales displayed good reliability with acceptable inter-item correlations within each subscale. The subscales were also able to differentiate the perspectives of male Vietnam veterans from their spouses on a lifestyle management course at the termination of intervention. However, this scale also displayed a cognitive behavioural trauma treatment protocol and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing to be equivalent in treatment distress and participant endorsement in the treatment of PTSD. Preliminary findings suggest that the relationship between these two subscales and outcome may, to some extent, be population specific. First evidence suggests that intervention distress ratings may be influenced by severity of presentation, whilst endorsement ratings are more influenced by symptomatic improvement over time. Suggestions for future research are presented and the full questionnaire is attached as an appendix. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Adults Australians Cognitive Therapy Distress Family Therapy Endorsement Females Males Outcome Psychotherapeutic Processes Questionnaire Self Report Instruments Spouses Tolerance Treatment Treatment Effectiveness Veterans Vietnam War
Accuracy Verified: Yes
21. Klaff, F. (1999, December). Ask Doctor Frankie, because There is no such thing as a silly question (Although I may have a silly answer). EMDRIA Newsletter, 4(4), 11-12.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
I provide some of the questions that people have asked at my trainings on working with children in a family context.
Keywords: Children Questions and Answers
Accuracy Verified: Yes
22. Carter, A. (2007, June). Assessment and treatment of complex PTSD and dissociative disorders in childhood and adolescence, the role and use of EMDR. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Damage occurs to a childs self in the context of relationship when raised in an environment of abuse and neglect. This damage to self is manifested through disruptions in development. A child or adolescent will be unable to perform tasks a non-traumatized child or adolescent has not difficulty mastering. These tasks may be physical, emotional, intellectual, sexual, social, or spiritual. When these disruptions become manifest in the environment with which the child or adolescent is interacting, home, school, or community, conflict arises. The conflict is both internal with self and external in relationship, behavioral, and biological. This is generally when a child or adolescent is brought into therapy for intervention Caregivers are not always aware of the impact traumatic events have on a childs life or may not want to deal with the impact and the long term implications. The therapeutic relationship is a context outside of the system where the child was traumatized that provide the potential environment and relationship which can facilitate healing for the child, adolescent, and possible, the system in which they live.
Children and adolescents with a complex PTSD will often employ the use of dissociation as a way to cope with overwhelming events or chronically dysfunctional lifestyles. The degree and way in which the child dissociates to self regulate internal systems will determine behavioural and neurological trajectories in their life such as, how the child will cope, rupture of developmental task attainment, and it will determine what type of attachment process the child experiences. Also determined are: impulse control, sleep regulation, meta cognitive functioning, neurobiological processes and the integrative processes of self. When there is no therapeutic intervention, the self which emerges as a result of these processes is a traumatic self organization, that is a self structural in response to traumatic experience determined to avoid the repetition of the traumatic experience at all costs. The biological body that emerges is the traumatized body organized for avoidance in the forms of fighting, fleeing, or freezing and submitting.
The assessment phase of therapy will map for the therapist and client where the internal dysregulation occur, what are the maladaptive response which have been developed, and what the negative beliefs are which all contribute to the construction of the traumatic self." There are a variety of assessment tools specifically designed for this purpose.
Once the map is established, a plan can be developed to use with children and adolescents and family for therapy and for EMDR. There are a variety of models which have been developed to use with children and adolescents to process bad memories, negative cognitions and to strengthen internal resources. EMDR can also be used to facilitate state change, strengthen self regulatory capacities, and promote integrative processes of authentic self, facilitating healing throughout self, body, and relational systems.
Keywords: Adolescents Children Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Complex PTSD C-PTSD Dissociative Disorders
Accuracy Verified: Yes
23. Pham, T., & Willocq, L. (2005, June). Assessment of traumatic stress among incarcerated homicide perpetrators. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Brussels, Belgium.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Homicide perpetrators present a high prevalence of major mental disorders,
particularly major depression associated with a substance diagnostic, and
schizophreny (Cote & Hodgins, 1992). Recently, it has been suggested that
the homicide behaviour itself may be conceived as a traumatic event
generating multiple symptoms (Gray, et a1., 2003; Pollock. 1999}. This study
assesses the relations between homicide and traumatic stress in a Belgian
prison population, on the basis of a self-report questionnaire (SASRQ).
Therapeutic implications of the results and relevance of EMDR practice in
homicide populations will be discussed.
Keywords: Homicide Incarceration Perpetrators Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
24. Gorisse, E., de Jongh, A., & Hassan, B. (2010). Behandeling van idiopathische aangezichtspijn na plaatsing implantaat [Treatment of idiopathic facial pain following implant placement]. Ned Tijdschr Tandheelkd, 117(2), 75-78.
Language: Dutch
Format: Magazine
Een 39-jarige vrouw had een chronische vorm van atypische
aangezichtspijn en klachten behorende bij een posttraumatische
stressstoornis. De pijn was ontstaan na chirurgische verwijdering
van een wortelrest onder een implantaat en haar klachten waren
daarvan een gevolg. Uiteindelijk had deze problematiek geleid tot
ontslag door haar werkgever en problemen in het gezin. Een periodiek
mondonderzoek door haar huistandarts was vanwege extreme
angst onmogelijk. Medicamenteuze behandeling, accupunctuur,
homeopathie en hypnotherapie hadden geen verbetering gegeven.
Behandeling met een aanpak gericht op de verwerking van
herinneringen aan tandheelkundige behandelingen door middel
van eye movement desensitization and reprocessing leidde uiteindelijk
tot vermindering van klachten. Deze casus maakt duidelijk
hoezeer dit type orale problematiek het dagelijks leven van
patiënten kan ontwrichten en hoe psychotherapie een aanvulling
op de orale of medicamenteuze behandeling kan zijn.
A 39-year-old woman suffered from chronic atypical facial pain and complaints associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The pain originated from the surgical removal of a residual tooth root under an oral implant and the stress symptoms were the consequences of the pain. Eventually, these problems had led to dismissal from work and family problems. She was unable to attend her dentist for a periodic oral survey due to extreme fear. Pharmacologic treatment, acupuncture, homeopathy and hypnotherapy had not improved her condition. Treatment aimed at coping with the memories of the oral treatment using 'eye movement desensitization and reprocessing' ultimately led to decline of complaints. This case report demonstrates that an oral problem may disrupt a patient's life and how psychotherapy can complete medical treatment.
Keywords: Oral Implant Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Tooth Root
Accuracy Verified: Yes
25. Kraft, S., Schepker, R., Goldbeck, L., & Fegert, J. M. (2006). Behandlung der posttraumatischen belastungsstörung bei kindern und jugendlichen. Eine übersicht empirischer wirksamkeitsstudien [Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents -- A review of treatment outcome studies]. Nervenheilkunde: Zeitschrift für interdisziplinaere Fortbildung, 25(9), 709-716.
Language: German
Format: Journal
Basierend auf einer systematischen Literaturrecherche wird der aktuelle Stand des Wissens über die Wirksamkeit von pharmakologischen und psychotherapeutischen Behandlung der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung bei Kindern und Jugendlichen zusammengefasst und bewertet. Neunzehn kontrollierten randomisierten klinischen Studien wurden für die Psychotherapie gefunden, und keiner für die Pharmakotherapie. Die Wirksamkeit von kognitiver Verhaltenstherapie Programme erhärtet worden ist, mit der Teilnahme der Eltern oder Betreuer in die Behandlung zu sein scheint vorteilhaft. Es gibt vielversprechende Studien für Eye Movement Desensitizafion und die Wiederaufbereitung (EMDR) und für Multisystemische Familientherapie. Aufgrund der kleinen Fallzahlen und fehlenden Replikation, haben ihre Ergebnisse als vorläufig zu betrachten. Bis jetzt gibt es keine kontrollierten klinischen Studien zu pharmakologischen Therapien für traumatisierte Kinder und Jugendliche. Weitere Studien zu diesem zahlenmäßig relevant und zum Teil erheblich beeinträchtigt Gruppe sind, geltend gemacht werden. Untersuchungen zur differentiellen Indikation von verschiedenen Behandlungsansätze und über die Wirksamkeit von Kombinationstherapien, die Psychotherapie plus Pharmakotherapie, fehlen. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, alle Rechte vorbehalten)
Based on a systematic literature search, the current state of knowledge on the efficacy of psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders in children and adolescents is summarized and reviewed. Nineteen randomized controlled clinical trials were found for psychotherapy, and none for pharmacotherapy. The efficacy of cognitive behavioral treatment programs has been substantiated, with the participation of a parent or caretaker in the treatment seeming to be beneficial. There are promising studies for Eye Movement Desensitizafion and Reprocessing (EMDR) and for Multisystemic Family Therapy. However, because of small sample sizes and lacking replication, their results have to be regarded as provisional. Up to now, there are no controlled clinical trials on pharmacological treatments for traumatized children and adolescents. More studies on this numerically relevant and partly severely impaired group are to be claimed. Studies on differential indication of different treatment approaches and on the efficacy of combination treatments, as psychotherapy plus pharmacotherapy, are lacking. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Adolescent Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Drug Therapy Literature Review Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychotherapy Treatment Outcomes
Accuracy Verified: Yes
26. Litt, B. (2009, August). Beyond trauma resolution: EMDR and the growth of the relational self. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Atlanta, GA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This workshop explores family dynamics contributing to ego fragmentation and interlocking ego-state conflict in individual and couples therapy. Participants will learn about the relationship between family dynamics and ego structure, reenactments from the family of origin, and the manifestations of ego-state conflict in individual and conjoint therapy. Participants will learn a contextual model for EMDR-based assessment and treatment planning, the indications and contraindications of conjoint EMDR, a model of the Self that zeroes in on the salient negative cognitions being triggered, and learn a progression of techniques to control and focus desensitization within the optimal zone of arousal.
Keywords: Family Dynamics
Accuracy Verified: Yes
27. Litt, B. (2010, April/May). Beyond trauma resolution: EMDR and the growth of the relational self. Presentation at the annual meeting of EMDR Canada, Toronto, Ontario.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This workshop explores family dynamics contributing to ego fragmentation and interlocking ego state conflict in individual and couples therapy. Participants will learn about the relationship between family dynamics and ego structure, re-enactments from the family of origin, and the manifestations of ego state conflict in individual and conjoint therapy. Participants will learn a contextual model for EMDR-based assessment and treatment planning, the indications and contraindications for conjoint EMDR, a model of the Self that zeroes in on salient negative cognitions, and a progression of techniques to control and focus desensitization within the optimal zone of arousal. (Intermediate/Advanced)
Keywords: Relational Self
Accuracy Verified: Yes
28. Litt, B. (2011, April-May). Beyond trauma resolution: EMDR and the growth of the relational self. Presentation at the EMDR Canada Workshop in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This workshop will explore family dynamics contributing to ego fragmentation and interlocking ego state conflict in individual and couples therapy. Participants will learn a model for EMDR-based assessment and treatment planning, describe ego state manifestations in couples conflict and learn to manage ego states in the desensitization phase of processing.
In Part One, participants will learn about the relationship between family dynamics and ego structure, reenactments from the family of origin, and the manifestations of ego state conflict in individual and conjoint therapy.
In Part Two, participants will learn a model for EMDR-based assessment and treatment planning using contextual family therapy, the indications and contraindications of conjoint EMDR, a model of the Self that zeroes in on the salient negative cognitions being triggered, and learn a progression of techniques to control and focus desensitization within the optimal zone of arousal.
This interactive workshop will include videotape and didactic material designed to facilitate a deeper understanding of this exciting new integrative model. For individual, couples, and family therapists.
Learning Objectives:
Individual and conjoint therapists will sharpen their diagnostic skills by learning to assess intergenerational patterns that contribute to ego fragmentation in their clients.
Couples therapists will use knowledge gained to evaluate repetition compulsions or reenactments in their client couples.
Individual and conjoint therapists will learn to deconstruct reenactments to identify negative cognitions preparatory to doing EMDR.
Conjoint therapists will assess for indications and contraindications for conducting conjoint EMDR sessions with client couples.
Therapists will be able to rapidly assess negative cognitions using a new typology of Domains of the Self.
EMDR therapists will be able to employ a model of the zone of optimal processing for efficient and safe desensitization.
EMDR therapists will be able to use a variety of techniques for maintaining their clients within the zone of optimal processing.
Keywords: Ego State Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
29. Smith. T. C. (2010, April). Bloody Sunday - Surviving post traumatic stress disorder with EMDR. Lulu.com.
Language: English
Format: Book
Bloody Sunday is an honest and riveting look into the rarely exposed vulnerabilities of the author. His attempts to understand and honestly convey the physical, emotional, and psychological consequences on him and his family as a result of a tramatic event, offer a perspective to the reader that most people would never be exposed to in their own life. Bloody Sunday is a true story that will both expose the human side of our heroes that put their life on the line everyday in the service of others. It also gives hope to those who are dealing with Post Tramatic Stress Disorder themselves or with a loved one.
Keywords: Police Shootings Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
Accuracy Verified: No
30. Bush, Y. R. (1999, June). Bonding and attachment. Prescott College, AZ.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
This paper reviews the issues of major importance in the current study of bonding and attachment. Adopted children and children who have spent some of their childhood in foster care account for a disproportionate number of unattached children. A review of the history of literature relative to bonding and attachment from Freud to Bowlby and to present day experts is presented. The relatively new diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder and the DSM IV diagnostic features are addressed.
The treatment process, including the various accepted techniques that have been somewhat successful, is described. The newest technique, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), developed by Francine Shapiro, is being used to help children who have been diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder. The technique is explained in this paper.
Chapter six includes information regarding how to complete a family history and assessment and the outline for a more formal narrative report.
This paper was written to explain bonding and attachment and its format was planned so that parts of it can be used as a teaching tool. The purpose of the paper is to gain knowledge and understanding in this field of study so that children will benefit. Assessing the level of bonding and attachment will assist the helping professional plan appropriate treatment for children and families.
Keywords: Adoption Attachment Bonding Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
31. Klaff, F. (2012, October). Bonding the pieces: Treating children unglued by family disruptions - An integrated EMDR-family systems approach. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Arlington, VA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Major family structural changes, as in divorce and adoption, impact childrens adjustment. Integrating neuroscience research, the AIP-EMDR model and family systems theory, a comprehensive therapeutic approach facilitates treatment of the childs whole experience. Videotaped case material demonstrates effectiveness of the EMDR treatment component, addressing interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences for adopted brothers Antwon, 4 and Tony,7, exposed to past poverty, drugs,abuse and murder; and Gina, 8, impacted by divorce, current family instability, alcoholism,and other unrevealed ghosts. These children are representative of the complex cases therapists must deconstruct, with sometimes disturbing or complicating revelations emerging as treatment progresses.
Keywords: Children Family Systems Approach
Accuracy Verified: Yes
32. Dellucci, H. (2007, June). Can EMDR treat transgenerational transmitted trauma?. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
In certain cases, we can be confronted to a need for retreatment of targets that the person in front of us cannot have experienced by herself: second war events, being in a prison or concentration camp
But the person in therapy show real disorders, including dissociation which seems related to those targets.
How could be treat such transgenerational trauma with EMDR? With which results? Which hypotheses could we formulate out of this work? Which are the implications on the persons family environment?
Out of three clinical cases, I propose to share my experience and think together on transgenerational trauma transmission and its treatment, by using the concept of mirror neurons.
Keywords: Family Mirror Neurons Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
33. Lovett, J. M. (1994). Case report: Treating a toddler with EMDR. EMDR Network Newsletter, 4(3), 10.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
A 20-month-old Chinese boy was
referred to me by his pediatrician
because of symptoms which began
immediately after an automobile accident.
The accident occurred when a
car spun out of control on the freeway
and smashed into the side of a car driven by the child's uncle. All of the
doors of the car were temporarily
jammed, and the family panicked
when they could not get out. The
uncle sustained some physical injuries,
but did not require hospitalization.
The toddler was examined by his
pediatrician and did not have any
signs of a physical injury. However,
for the month following the accident,
the toddler awakened crying several
times nightly. During the day he was
irritable, cried easily, and was frequently
Accuracy Verified: Yes
34. Angell, J. D. (1995). Case study. EMDR Network Newsletter, 5(3), 6.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
The client is an intelligent, attractive,
46-year-old married woman with an
abusive background (as well as multiple
dysfunctions in her blended family).
Using EMDR, as well as other
approaches, we have worked through
many issues of co-dependency, anger,
self-worth, boundaries, and
assertiveness. Although she was feeling
better, something was still amiss.
Keywords: Case Report
Accuracy Verified: Yes
35. Mendoza-Weitman, L. (1992, May). Case study. EMDR Network Newsletter, 2(1), 11-12.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
A ten year-old Hispanic boy was referred
by his mother for outpatient
psychotherapy. The mother described
her son as having been depressed
since the father abandoned
the family over five years ago. The
depression was now worsening, although
the mother could not identify
any new stressors. The boy was described
as having little or no interest
in pleasurable activities, doing poorly
academically, experiencing significant
weight loss, panicking each
morning about leaving home for
school, complaining of stomachaches
every morning, and having sad affect.
Additionally, the mother was
distressed that the boy had an intense
phobia of eating in public and refused to do so. He complained of
"picturing vomit" each time he tried
to eat. The boy's stated goal of treatment
was "to stop thinking about
throwing up." He also asked for help
" to not feel sick every morning, even
though I'm not really sick."
Keywords: Case Study Throwing Up Vomiting
Accuracy Verified: Yes
36. Went, M. (2009). Casus 8 Ik kijk echt met andere ogen!: Via moeder worden de problemen met haar 3-jarige dochter behandeld [Case 8 - I really look with new eyes! Through the mother the problems with her 3-year-old daughter are treated]. In H. K. Hornsveld & S. Berendsen (Eds.), Casusboek EMDR, 25 voorbeelden uit de praktijk (1st Ed.), (pp. 129-141). Houten: Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum. doi:10.1007/978-90-313-7358-1_13.
Language: Dutch
Format: Book Section
Yvonne en Robert, ouders van dochter Eva van ruim 3 jaar en zoon Koen van ruim 1 jaar, melden hun dochter aan in verband met ernstige gedragsproblemen. Ze verleidt hen de hele dag tot een verbale strijd. Zij is in het gezin allesbepalend en erg negatief tegen haar broertje. Ze is snel overspoeld bij drukte en onverwachte gebeurtenissen. Eva krijgt woedebuien waarmee ze haar ouders angstig maakt. Ze kijkt dwars door je heen.
Yvonne and Robert, parents of daughter Eva and son Koen than 3 years of over one year, send their daughter associated with severe behavioral problems. She seduces them all day until a verbal battle. It determines everything in the family and very negative against her brother. She's soon overwhelmed by crowds and unexpected events. Eva gets her rage rainfall which makes parents anxious. 'She looks right through you. "
Keywords: Children Daughters Mothers
Accuracy Verified: Yes
37. Wesselmann, D., & Potter, A. E. (2009). Change in adult attachment status following treatment with EMDR: Three case dtudies. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 3(3),178-191. doi:10.1891/1933-3220.127.116.11.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Three case studies illustrate pre- and post-eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) adult attachment status as measured by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). Two adult males and one adult female presented for outpatient therapy; all of them were categorized with an insecure or disorganized attachment status at pretreatment. All presented with symptoms of depression and anxiety and complaints regarding problems in their current marital and family relationships. The three patients received 10 to 15 EMDR sessions over the course of approximately 1 year, interspersed with talk therapy sessions for the purpose of debriefing and psychoeducation. The EMDR approach utilized all eight phases of treatment within the three-pronged approach. Following EMDR therapy, all three patients made positive changes in attachment status as measured by the AAI, and all three reported positive changes in emotions and relationships. This article provides an overview of the literature related to adult attachment categories and summarizes the effect of adult attachment status on emotional and social functioning. The rationale and scoring procedures for the AAI are explained.
Keywords: Adult Attachment Interview Attachment Outcome Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
38. Wesselmann, D. (2013, April). Changing the lives of children with reactive attachment disorder behaviors through EMDR treatment. Keynote presented at the Congress EMDR Vereniging EMDR Nederland, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Many children exhibit severe and challenging behaviors such as aggressive outbursts, arguing and defiance, lying, stealing, and sexualized behaviors due to very early life relational trauma. EMDR Integrative Team Treatment involves family therapy and EMDR. With intervention from family therapy and EMDR Attachment Resource Development, parents can provide better emotional support, allowing their children to open up emotionally. As the EMDR therapist implements therapeutic attunement, storytelling, empowerment interweaves, and role-plays, hurt children can find healing and hope. Videos will supplement this presentation.
Keywords: Children Reactive Attachment Disorder
Accuracy Verified: Yes
39. Borrelli, S. (2002). Chaper 5: Into the new millennium: Child advocacy and EMDR. The EMDR Practitioner. Retrieved from http://www.emdr-practitioner.net on 12/27/2008.
Language: English
Format: Other
When planning treatment for a child, we must assess carefully the developmental issues
(internal press) that seem to be ascendant at different life stages, the context (external
press) in which these issues are being accomplished and probably frustrated, and
secondary gains issues. Especially for a child, the risks of change must be prepared for.
Family therapy theories remind us that as the child improves, the status quo of the family
"crisis" will also need to adapt. Were all aware of the obvious and subtle resistances to
change offered by family members. all of whom might be vying for survival guarantees.
A sensitive assessment of the family context, then, is an essential aspect of the treatment
process. Which family members are most likely to be allies in the quest for change, and
who are the most at risk, and likely to challenge positive changes? [Excerpt]
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
40. Helen. (2011, February). Child abuse and voice hearing: Finding healing through EMDR. Psychosis, 3(1), 90-95 doi:10.1080/17522439.2010.542827.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Public education campaigns are needed to proclaim the right of children to be safe in their own homes and to encourage both abusers and victims to seek help. Broad-based discussion of this problem, its causes, its consequences and its remedies, would help lift the veil of secrecy and shame that surrounds the topic of sexual abuse within the family, preventing many individuals from seeking assistance. We therefore urge that all means, including the media, be used to raise public awareness about the need to end the sexual abuse of children, particularly within the family. (Rights of The Child: Sexual abuse of children within the family. Statement submitted by the Bahai International Community to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, February 1998). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Child Abuse Voice Hearing
Accuracy Verified: Yes
41. Litt, B. (2007). The child as identified patient: Integrating contextual therapy and EMDR. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 306-324). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
It is estimated that as many as 2% of children under age 12 and from 5% to 18% of adolescents suffer from a depressive disorder (Birmaher et al., 1996; Northey, Wells, Silverman, & Bailey, 2003) that will likely persist into adulthood (Northey et al., 2003; Wagner & Ambrosini, 2001). Contextual Therapy is a differentiation-based (e.g., Kerr & Bowen, 1988; Schnarch, 1991) approach in that it promotes self-determination in the face of family pressure for compliance, reliance on internal resources for self-validation rather than dependence on others for approval, and the overcoming of emotional discomfort in the interests of responsible action (Boszormenyi-Nagy & Krasner, 1986). Both the contextual approach and the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model predict that formative childhood experiences affect both psychological health and relational functioning. With its systemic paradigm and its ethical dimension of relationship, the contextual approach is complementary and additive to Shapiro's (2001) AIP model. The contextual approach shows the clinician where to look for the targets, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) provides the potency to transform the experience. A general structure of phase-oriented therapy can be described that accounts for most, if not all, referrals for treatment. An assessment phase, a contracting phase, and an intervention phase characterize the main tasks of the therapist. In practice, these phases may overlap, coincide, or repeat themselves over the course of minutes, weeks, or months. This chapter describes only those practices that are unique to the integrated approach. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model Affective Disorders Child Patients Contextual Therapy Depressive Disorder Integrated Approach Integrative Psychotherapy Major Depression Models
Accuracy Verified: Yes
42. Morris-Smith, J. (2006, June). Child, adolescent and family in trauma and EMDR in the process of law. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Assocation, Istanbul, Turkey.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Children Families Grief
Accuracy Verified: Yes
43. Grosso, F. C. (1996, June). Children and OCD: Extending the treatment paradigm. EMDRIA Newsletter, 1(1), 10-11.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Tammy, a vivacious 6-year-old, was brought to my office by her parents who had observed the development of ritualistic behaviors soon after Tammy started to walk. These rituals consisted of arranging her toys to such a precise degree that she was unable to leave her room until each toy was exactly in its place. As she grew older, cleaning became another compulsive behavior that paralyzed her. Tammys ritualistic behavior was affecting the whole family to such an extent that her parents were blaming and fighting with each other, and her younger siblings were becoming difficult and uncooperative.
Keywords: Children Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD
Accuracy Verified: Yes
44. Klaff, F. (2007). Children of divorce. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 284-305). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Much attention has been devoted to examining whether divorce negatively impacts children's psychological adjustment, or whether divorce is now so prevalent that it can be considered a normative transitional event (Kaslow, 1981). Divorce brings many structural and functional changes. These include the logistic and emotional complications of a nonresidential parent, financial disequilibrium, and two systems with differing rules and expectations. Additionally, there are new subsystem components, such as parental figures, step- and half-siblings, and extended families with a potentially motley cast of new characters and different environments impacting the system. What constitutes "family" for children of divorce is often quite different from what is traditionally viewed as the nuclear family. This chapter discusses divorce effects on childhood adjustment; family systems-based treatment of divorce; adaptive information processing model applied to divorce issues; and the therapy process--integrative family therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Two case examples are presented, followed by a concluding discussion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model Adjustment Children of Divorce Divorce Emotional Adjustment Family Family Systems Family Systems Theory Family Therapy Integrative Family Therapy Integrative Psychotherapy Models Therapy Process
Accuracy Verified: Yes
45. Greenwald, R. (1995, June). Children-case presentations. Presentation at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
One major limitation of EMDR is that it is an individual treatment modality. However, individual treatment of a child may be
insuflicient, and broader interventions are often required. This is especially likely when environmental forces are unsupportive or in
opposition to the healing process. This presentation will focus on the use of EMDR on several levels in child treatment, including
individual treatment of traumatic memories, enhancing family support for healing, and addressing family obstacles to healing.
Format will include lecture, vignettes, and a video case presentation of the EMDR treatment of a young girl who had been raped by
a babysitter, along with the EMDR treatment of her older brother who bullied her.
Assessment of child problems includes consideration of many factors. The focus here will be on the child's trauma history, and on
the current family situation it pertains to treatment of the child's traumatic memories. Methods of assessment addressed here include
interview of the child and the parent, observation of family interactions, and observation of the child's progress, both during and after
EMDR treatment.
A number of interventions are available to enhance or augment individual EMDR treatment of the child. Vignettes will be
presented to illustrate the following interventions: referral to family therapy when successful EMDR highlighted the symptom's
functional role; EMDR with a parent to reduce reactivity to the child; and prompting the parent(s) to produce statements and
behaviors to be used later as content for installations.
A challenging case will be presented in which a family, though motivated, demonstrated a number of behaviors which threatened to
undermine the child's treatment. The family consisted of a single father in his late twenties, an eight year-old boy, and a seven-yearold
girl. The presenting problem was the girl's ongoing post-traumatic symptoms, particularly nightmares and social withdrawal,
some two years after having been raped by a babysitter. (the boy also had social and behavioral problems in school.) Unfortunately,
the "lessons" of the girl's traumatic experience were frequently reinforced in the family context, through the brother's bullying of his
younger sister, the father's complicity in the bullying, and the father's own tendency to be overly controlling and threatening.
Treatment began with two family sessions and one with the father alone. The next three sessions were split to provide some
individual time for each child as well as for the father. The seventh, final session included a family meeting and then some time for
each individual. Work with the father was difficult and slow, as he was very defensive regarding his own possible contributions to
his children's problems. Early interventions included delicate attempts to help the father understand the effect of his yelling and
threatening - even though he was no longer in the habit of physically striking his children. Meanwhile, in part to enhance the
therapeutic alliance, the primary focus was on direct treatment of the children. Some of this is shown on video.
The girl was asked to draw a picture of her bad dream, and then to draw it "all better." She first drew a dark picture of a large man
with fangs dripping blood. The next picture was of a nicer man on a sunny day. This activity was used as part of her introduction to
the upcoming EMDR work. In the next session she agreed to do EMDR and completed processing in 25 minutes. The following
session she indicated that the memory was no longer disturbing, and many of the symptoms had disappeared. She began to raise her
next concern, by playing with a doll and a baby bottle, and complaining that she did not get to see her mother enough.
Over the same three sessions the boy was also treated with EMDR for a number of relatively minor traumatic memories, including a
car accident, the loss of two pets, and a vision of the devil. Despite apparently successfull processing, he was unable to conclude that
he was a "good boy," due to evidence to the contrary: memories of his father's anger at him. Cognitive interweave was used to
access a sense of inner goodness. The bullying behavior reportedly disappeared both at home and at school, and he also moved on,
to express concerns about missing his mother.
Treatment was interrupted due to a change in insurance coverage, so continued treatment and follow-up was not accomplished. This
case illustrates some ways that EMDR can be enlisted to address aspects of the family context which may constitute obstacles to
healing. The girl's brother was treated with EMDR to reduce his mistreatment of her; and the boy's sense of badness, largely gained
by interaction with his father, was overcome by accessing internal resources in the absence of parental support. In conclusion,
EMDR can play multiple roles in both the diagnosis and treatment of family obstacles to healing.
Keywords: Case Presentations Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
46. Capps, F. (2006, January). Combining eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with Gestalt techniques in couples counseling. Family Journal, 14(1), 49-58. doi:10.1177/1066480705282055 .
Language: English
Format: Journal
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is gaining acceptance as efficacious treatment for PTSD for individuals but not for couples. This article reports three case studies of couples in which EMDR is combined with Gestalt therapy in a single session to resolve relational trauma effects, increase empathy and awareness in the supportive partner, and deepen intimacy within the couple. Case studies are described, and implications for research and clinical applications are discussed. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Adults Americans Couples Therapy Family Therapy Gestalt Therapy Nonclinical Case Study Qualitative Study Perpetrators Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychotherapeutic Processes PTSD Spouse Abuse Survivors Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
47. Khosropour, F., Ebrahiminejad, G. H., Salehi, M., & Farzad, V. (2012, April-May). Comparing the effectiveness of psychological debriefing, eye movement desensitization reprocessing, and imaginal exposure on treatment of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 19(2), 149-159 .
Language: Farsi (Iran)
Format: Journal
Background & Aims: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is considered as one of the most prevalent disorder during the life time and can negatively influence the individual, family and social relationships of patients, so, prevention and treatment of this disorder is highly important. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), psychological debriefing (PD), and imaginal exposure (IE) are some treatment methods, but there is controversy about long effects of these treatments, especially among chronic patients.
Method: In a semi experimental study, a total of 54 adult male patients, based on Davidson scale and psychiatric diagnostic, were randomly selected, and then were divided into 3 equal therapy groups. All participants were evaluated before, after and 3 months after the treatment. Data were analyzed through the repeated variance and Duncan post-hoc tests.
Results: Psychological debriefing and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing were better than imaginal exposure in relief of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder signs and remaining the effectiveness in three months follow-up.
Conclusion: It is concluded that all of the above methods are effective on chronic post-traumatic stress disorder and the efficacy of the therapeutic techniques would be still in force even after 3 months.
Considering the importance of psychological interventions, it is necessary that such methods be taught to psychologists so that they can use them after traumatic accidents.
Keywords: Imaginal Exposure Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychological Debriefing PTSD
Accuracy Verified: Yes
48. Tofani, L. R. (2007). Complex separation, individuation processes, and anxiety disorders in young adulthood. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 265-283). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Research has shown that anxiety in children is highly influenced by parenting style, perception of family support (Rapee & Melville, 1997), and family relational patterns. Social Anxiety Disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) is considered to be a common disorder in young adults. According to Shapiro's (1995, 2001) Adaptive Information Processing model, a neurotic symptomatic situation in a young adult with an unfinished separation process may be connected to unresolved separations and other past traumas. This chapter discusses research and clinical evidence, and treatment of young adults with complex separation problems. Integration of family systems therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR; Shapiro, 2001) is discussed. In this integrated treatment procedure, family therapy follows the experiential family systems therapy approach (Giat Roberto, 1992; Napier & Whitaker, 1978), with elements of multigenerational and Structural Family Therapy styles (Bowen, 1978; Minuchin & Fishman, 1992). The EMDR standard protocol is followed. A case example and concluding discussion complete the chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Anxiety Disorders Family Relations Family Systems Therapy Family Systems Theory Family Therapy Individuation Integrative Psychotherapy Separation Anxiety Separation Individuation Separation Problems Separation Reactions Structural Family Therapy Young Adulthood
Accuracy Verified: Yes
49. de Keijser, J., Denderen, M., & Verster-Bosman, M. (2013, April). Complicated grief and PTSD after murder, etiology and treatment: Research into treatment with EMDR and CBT in relatives of murder [Complexe rouw en PTSS na moord, etiologie en behandeling: Onderzoek naar behandeling met EMDR en CGT bij nabestaanden van moord]. Presentatie op het congres EMDR Vereniging EMDR Nederland, Nijmegen, Nederland.
Language: Dutch
Format: Conference
Directe nabestaanden van slachtoffers van moord krijgen vaak te maken met een PTSS en gecompliceerde rouw. De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is, met medefinanciering door het Fonds Slachtofferhulp, een onderzoek gestart naar de vraag of professionele hulp effectief is.
Het onderzoek kent twee doelstellingen:
In hoeverre draagt een behandeling bestaande uit EMDR en CGT voor familieleden en partners van een vermoord persoon bij aan het verminderen van symptomen van gecompliceerde rouw.
Daarnaast hoopt het onderzoek inzicht te krijgen in de mate waarin het effect van de behandeling met EMDR en CGT gemedieerd wordt door een afname van intrusies, vermijdingsgedrag, extreme woede en disfunctionele cognities.
In de presentatie komen drie sprekers aan het woord:
- Jos de Keijser, klinisch psycholoog/psychotherapeut en projectleider van het onderzoek, zal een theoretisch kader schetsen over gecompliceerde rouw en PTSS bij nabestaanden na moord, inclusief implicaties voor de praktijk.
- Mariette van Denderen, criminologe en promovendus, zal de resultaten van de behandelingen met EMDR en CGT tot nu (dan) toe presenteren.
- Moniek Verster, een van de behandelaren in het onderzoek, zal over de praktijk van het toepassen van EMDR en CGT bij nabestaanden van moord vertellen.
Casuïstiek komt aan bod, indien mogelijk met gebruikmaking van videofragmenten.
Immediate relatives of murder victims often have to deal with PTSD and complicated grief. The University of Groningen, with co-financing by the Fund Victim, launched an investigation into whether professional help is effective. The study has two objectives:
To what extent does a treatment consisting of EMDR and CBT for family members and partners of a murdered person to reducing symptoms of complicated grief.
Additionally this study aims to understand the extent to which the effect of the treatment with EMDR and CBT is mediated by a decrease of intrusions, avoidance behavior, extreme anger and dysfunctional cognitions.
During the presentation, three speakers to talk:
- Jos de Keijser, clinical psychologist / psychotherapist and leader of the research, a theoretical framework sketches about complicated grief and PTSD in survivors after murder, including implications for practice.
- Mariette of Denderen, criminologist and researcher, the results of the treatment with EMDR and CBT until now (then) to present.
- Moniek Verster, one of the practitioners in the study, will the practice of using EMDR and CBT in relatives of murder tell.
Casuistry is discussed, where possible using video clips.
Keywords: CBT Cognitive Behavior Therapy Complicated Grief Murder Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Violence
Accuracy Verified: Yes
50. Olson, M., & Lackie, B. (2002). Contextual family therapy. In R. A. DiTomasso, & E. A. Gosch (Eds.), Comparative Treatments for Anxiety Disorders, (pp. 160-180). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Co.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
No abstract available.
Keywords: Anxiety Disorders Anxiety Problems Contextual Family Therapy Family Systems Perspective Family Therapy Systems Theory Multigenerational Perspective
Accuracy Verified: Yes
51. van der Kolk, B. A. (1997, July). Current understanding of the psychobiology of trauma. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, San Francisco, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Trauma as an etiological agent in the genesis of psychopathology was largely ignored between the end of the
second world war and the end of the Vietnam war, forty years later. Trauma-based psychiatric problems were
generally dismissed, as exemplified by the above quote about the impact of childhood sexual abuse in the leading
textbook of psychiatry in 1972. In the wake of the Vietnam war the diagnosis of PTSD was constructed for inclusion in
the DSM-Ill in order to capture the psychopathology associated with traumatization in adults. However, over the years,
it has become clear that in clinical settings the majority of treatment seeking patients have been exposed to a range of
different traumatic events over their life-span, and suffer from a variety of psychological problems that are not included
in the diagnosis of PTSD. These include depression and self-hatred, dissociation and depersonalization, selfdestructive
behaviors, problems with close relations and an impairment in the capacity to experience pleasure,
satisfaction and 'fun'. These other problems are generally relegated to the status of "co-morbid conditions", rather than
being recognized as part of a spectrum of extremely treatment resistant trauma- related problems that occur
depending on the age at which the trauma occurred, the relationship to the agent responsible for the trauma, social
support received and the duration of the traumatic experience(s).
Keywords: Psychobiology
Accuracy Verified: Yes
52. Mazorati, C., & Bonardi, A. (2008, Novembre). Dal DSM IV allEMDR: Dalla diagnosi psichiatrica alla relazione di aiuto: riflessioni e ipotesi di integrazione [From DSM IV to EMDR: From diagnosis to report psychiatric help: Ideas and assumptions of integration]. Poster presentato al Applicazioni Cliniche dell'EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Le autrici ,una psichiatra e una psicologa riflettono sulla loro esperienza con EMDR. Prendono lo spunto da due casi di abuso sessuale in famiglia vissute da bambine da due loro pazienti, anche se il motivo iniziale della richiesta di aiuto era stato un altro.
Nel primo caso la paziente si era presentata su richiesta del suo medico curante per la presenza di una sintomatologia depressiva vissuta dalla stessa come pesante, invalidante e che la portava a voler uscire in fretta dalla situazione depressiva. Rispetto alla sintomatologia si è lavorato in termini di psicoeducazione della depressione come sindrome si è mantenuto un atteggiamento di ascolto e di attenzione ai vari disagi lamentati dalla paziente. Tale modalità nella relazione terapeutica ha permesso alla paziente di prendere coraggio e di raccontare il segrete che si portava dentro di un tentativo di abuso che in famiglia era stato negato. Si è quindi Utilizzato lEMDR per aiutarla a liberarsi dai fantasmi del passato.
Nel secondo caso, la richiesta era di aiuto psicologico per un disagio relazionale non ben identificato, ma che aveva prodotto nella paziente un graduale impoverimento delle risorse, un atteggiamento depressivo nei confronti della propria esistenza e nella coppia problematiche sessuali. E stata quindi presa in carico la coppia, associato ad un trattamento individuale alla paziente e utilizzando lEMDR quale strumento atto a risolvere le angosce delle molestie subite.
In entrambe le pazienti, dopo trattamento con EMDR, si è assistito ad cambiamento significativo del tono dellumore, un aumento della stima si sé , un aumento della loro capacità difensiva e del rispetto verso se stesse, ma soprattutto si è notato una accettazione del passato che, proprio perché ormai le rendeva libere finalmente di vivere il presente con il proprio sé.
The authors, a psychiatrist and a psychologist reflect on their experience with EMDR. Taking the cue from two cases of sexual abuse in the family experienced as children by two of their patients, even if motive of the request for aid was another. In the first case the patient had presented at the request of his doctor to the presence of depressive symptoms experienced by herself as "heavy", "disability" and that led to want to exit quickly from depressive situation. Compared to the symptoms you have worked in psychoeducation for depression as a syndrome has maintained an attitude of listening and attention to the various inconveniences complained of by the patient. This mode in the therapeutic relationship has enabled the patient to "take courage" and to tell the secret that was within an attempt to abuse in the family had been denied. Was then used EMDR to help get rid of ghosts of the past. In the second case, the request was for a psychological relationship distress is not well identified, but the patient had produced a gradual depletion of resources, a attitude "depression" to its own existence and problems in the couple orientation. It 'was then taken over the couple, combined with individual treatment to patient and using EMDR as a tool to resolve the anxieties of the harassment. In both patients, after treatment with EMDR, there has been significant change mood, increased self-esteem is an increase in their defensive ability and respect for themselves, but mainly it was noted that an acceptance of the past, precisely because now finally made them free to live the present with the self.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
53. Bertino, G. (2008, Novembre). Dal sistema, all'individuo, al sistema: l"EMDR nella terapia famigliare e nella terapi de coppia [The system, the individual, the system: EMDR and family therapy in couples therapy]. Presentazione le Applicazioni Cliniche del EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
(Chair, A. Onofri)
Nel costruire questo protocollo di lavoro parto dal presupposto che esiste nel sistema individuo e nel sistema coppia la capacità di trovare una modalità adattiva per superare lo stato di sofferenza e blocco, e che questa capacità possa essere maggiormente stimolata lavorando direttamente con l EMDR sugli episodi disturbanti e sulle convinzioni negative che la persona ha costruito in relazione a sé e allaltro. Epossibile in alcuni casi aiutare al persona a fare dei collegamenti con la propria storia di attaccamento e lavorare sui blocchi relativi alla propria storia personale.
In constructing this protocol work, I assume that exists in the system and individual
pair system the ability to find the appropriate method to overcome the state of suffering and block, and that this capacity could be further stimulated by working directly with 'on EMDR disturbing incidents and negative beliefs that the person has built in relation to themselves and another. It is possible in some cases help the person to make connections with their history attachment and work on the blocks for their own personal history.
Keywords: Couples Therapy Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
54. Knipscheer, J., van Middendorp, H., & Kleber, R. (2011, August). De rol van cultuur in het omgaan met psychotrauma [The role of culture in coping with psychotrauma]. Psychologie & Gezondheid, 39(3), 125-131. doi:10.1007/s12483-011-0026-4.
Language: Dutch
Format: Journal
The role of culture in coping with psychotrauma
In this paper, the theme of the special issue on Culture and Trauma is introduced. In both empirically oriented articles as well as theoretical and contemplative contributions, the role of culture and migration context in the development of psychological problems following trauma, culture-specific or generic coping with the consequences, help-seeking behavior, and the need for culturally sensitive treatment is explored. First, the influence of the migration context is considered with regard to the possible sickening role of the asylum procedure, the burden for immigrant women who have undergone female genital mutilation and now live in a society that seriously condemns it, and the dilemma of Islamic migrants who experience homosexual feelings while living in a secularized society. Following are some contributions on cultural diversity in the expression of trauma symptoms, like somatization among refugees and the articulation of rage and embitterment among labor migrants. The impact of trauma in combination with migration on families and how children can be affected by the traumatization of their parents is the topic of two contributions in which the role of the (extended) family is explored and a contextual approach to working with families with trauma-related symptoms (a mentalization based multifamily therapy) is described. The factors that impede therapyseeking behaviour and drop-out are discussed in a study on Moroccan or Turkish girls who were raped. Finally, the applicability and efficacy of evidence-based interventions for treating ethnic minority patients with posttraumatic stress disorder is illustrated by a study on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing with refugees and an article on specific elements of intercultural trauma therapy that appear to be culturally sensitive.
Keywords: Asylum Procedure Cultural Diversity Culture Ethnic Minority Patients Female Genital Homosexuality Islamic Migrants Mentalization-Based Multi-Family Therapy Mutilation Migration Context Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Psychotrauma Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
55. Forgash, C. A. (2005, June). Deepening EMDR treatment effects across the trauma spectrum: Integrating EMDR and ego state work. Föreningen EMDR Sverige, EMDR Tidningen, 7(2), 6-14.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
The concepts, interventions, and techniques presented in this workshop are culled from theory and techniques of
working with the range of the dissociative disorders). They have proved to be an effective addition to the preparation
stage of the EMDR protocol. In other words, they can be used with clients who dissociate under certain conditions but
do not have a dissociative disorder
Most of the traumatized clients seen for EMDR treatment have a range of dissociative symptoms as well as
symptoms of PTSD. This combination of PTSD and a dissociative disorder is often labeled DDNOS. However, people
with a more complex variety of PTSD usually have experienced very early and enduring severe physical or sexual
abuse (generally perpetrated by a family member), atrocities, war, or severe environmental disruption such as
earthquakes. They are more accurately diagnosed with disorders of extreme stress (DESNOS). For these clients, the
dissociated neural networks, or dissociative fragmentation, cause serious problems in adult life.
The adaptive information processing system is on hold for these dissociated fragments or parts. They are easily
triggered by internal or external cues to which they can have extreme reactions, (flashbacks, amnesia, losing time and
place, and so forth.)
Our goal as therapists is to use EMDR to help clients (and their internal dissociated neural networks or parts) find
stability and resources to function adaptively in their present life, and then desensitize and reprocess the dissociated
trauma memories and the PTSD symptoms.
We aim to help our clients manage their symptoms. It is not our goal to eliminate dissociation, which has been a
major survival strategy, but to help the client utilize it with conscious control.
It is important to note that attachment issues are an aspect of development that are especially impacted by trauma.
The attachment styles of the family pre trauma may have already affected the client in negative ways, impacting the
client's resources and responses to trauma.
One way to look at this set of problems is to utilize two approaches in the preparation phase of EMDR. These
approaches combine the treatment of dissociative symptoms with ego state work and are an essential aspect of treating
these clients with EMDR. This work may extend the preparation phase considerably, but will add safety and structure
to the trauma processing experiences for these clients.
Keywords: Ego State Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
56. Popky, A. J. (2005). DeTUR, an urge reduction protocol for addictions and dysfunctional behaviors. In R. Shapiro (Ed.), EMDR solutions: Pathways to healing (pp. 167-188). New York: W W Norton & Co.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
The Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing (DeTUR) model and the theories involved are based on experience from personal client observation and anecdotal reports received from other therapists using this same protocol. It is an eclectic model and combines many methodologies, including but not limited to cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, Ericksonian hypnosis, narrative, object relations, and emotional freedom techniques (EFT), to name a few. The bilateral stimulation (BLS) in the accelerated information processing model of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) seems to form the catalyst for rapid processing and change, the turbocharger that speeds the healing process.This protocol represents only a small part of a complete treatment model. The therapist's role is that of a case manager, orchestrating any resources necessary to aid the patient through recovery and relapse to a successful and healthy state of functioning and coping. The therapist has to assess the severity of the addiction and also determine any other diagnosis associated with the case. This overall treatment model includes outside help, such as referrals for medication, testing for physical or neurological problems, and, depending on the situation, inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, or detox. Other outside resources include support systems, such as 12-step groups, educational programs, skills training; couples, group, or family therapy; or acupuncture. Comorbidity issues, day-to-day stressors, and survival issues are addressed. An extremely high percentage of these populations are dually diagnosed and can therefore run the full dimensional spectrum of disorders and behaviors as described in the DSM-IV. [Text, pp. 167-168] [Pilots]
Keywords: Addiction Addictions Behavior Problems Behavior Therapy Bilateral Stimulation Compulsions Craving Desensitization of Triggers Dysfunctional Behaviors Information Processing Model Psychotherapeutic Techniques Urge Reduction Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
57. Gelbach, R. A., & Davis, K. E. B. (2007). Disaster response: EMDR and family systems therapy under communitywide stress. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 387-404). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Disaster is commonly understood as an overwhelming misfortune that is not easily overcome or set right. Though our lives may go on after a disaster, it is virtually certain that they will have been transformed in some profound way. Nevertheless, it is very clear that not all who live through a disaster will be traumatized by it and that only a fraction of survivors will develop trauma-related disorders such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Societies that have resources and choose to use them to shore up the infrastructure quickly and effectively will buffer their populations from increasing levels of PTSD. The impact of disasters on family and societal function and intervention priorities are discussed here. Report of the Task Force (2002) of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies is summarized next. The chapter then discusses psychotherapy as a response to disaster. Two approaches to postdisaster psychotherapy that have adapted well in diverse cultural environments are Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR; Shapiro, 2001) and family systems approaches. The therapy process is presented next. Other topics here include family and cultural considerations and group treatment. A case example is presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Disaster Response Disasters Emotional Trauma Family Systems Therapy Family Therapy Post Disaster Psychotherapy Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Stress Society Therapy Process
Accuracy Verified: Yes
58. Yule, W. (2008, April). Disaster, crisis and trauma psychology: Meeting the needs of children and adolescents. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Psychological Society of Ireland and NIBPS, Dublin,Ireland.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This presentation will summarise the work undertaken by the Standing Committee
and describe the developments in Disaster, Crisis and Trauma Psychology as they
relate to children and adolescents. Post Traumatic Stress Reactions are now well
described in children, although much has still to be learned about pre-schoolers.
Developmental and gender differences as well as family influences have all been
investigated within a broad developmental psychopathology framework. Most
excitingly, efficient and effective brief interventions such as trauma focused cognitive
behaviour therapy and EMDR have been developed, applied and validated. These individually oriented interventions
have also been adapted for large group interventions as are needed after major disasters and war. Recent developments
will be highlighted and future directions indicated.
Keywords: Adolescents Children Crisis Disaster Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
59. Butler, K. (1995, July-August). Divided memories. Family Therapy Networker, 19(4), 1.
Language: English
Format: Magazine
Ann Norris first went to see Laguna Beach psychologist Doug Sawin in 1988. She had recently graduated from college with a degree in music and suffered from insomnia and drank alcohol to sleep. But it was her relationship with her mother, Judy, that troubled her most. After Ann's triumphant college graduation vocal recital, Judy hadn't even congratulated her. Two days later, Judy had called and angrily attacked Ann over the phone until Ann cried.
It was the kind of issue that a good family or individual therapist might have addressed by building on Ann's obvious strengths, teaching her to contain and manage her feelings, and coaching her to develop a better relationship with her mother. But Sawin instead focussed intensely on the past. Ann soon had memories of her father sexually abusing her, and later of elaborate cultic abuse, which her three siblings didn't come close to corroborating. She was hospitalized after attempting suicide, and Sawin bluntly told her father, Al, over the phone, of Ann's charges Al collapsed in tears.
Over the years, Ann drew closer to Sawin while her relations with her family and her own mental state grew more troubled. She was diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder and, with Sawin's support, sued her parents and grandparents for $20 million. She spent six years in therapy with Sawin She now describes psychiatric hospitals where she still stays periodically because she cuts and burns herself as her "institutional mothers." She has not spoken to her true mother in six years. And she no longer sings.
It doesn't take a PhD in psychology or a seat on a state licensing board to see that Ann is worse off than when she entered therapy. Millions of nontherapists undoubtedly made just such an assessment when Ann, her therapist and her family told their stories before millions of prime-time viewers on "Divided Memories," a four-hour PBS Frontline documentary screened in early May.
In her wide-ranging investigation of therapy, sexual abuse and memory, producer Ofra Bikel used as her primary subject families divided by recovered memories of abuse. She also managed to persuade nearly half a dozen therapists to do therapy while her camera was running. It was a remarkable event, in which all of America was invited behind the one-way mirror to see therapy in action in the midst of its most divisive controversy and to judge it for themselves.
Keywords: MPD Multiple Personality Disorder
Accuracy Verified: Yes
60. Shapiro, F. (1995, September/October). Doing our homework. Family Therapy Networker, 19(5), 49-53.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Michael Lerner's call to arms at last spring's Family Therapy Network Symposium (see page 44) challenged therapists to become a greater moral force in the world and to take more responsibility for the collective good. Lerner stirred an audience of 2,500 therapists with his impassioned appeal for the mental health community to mobilize politically, yet 1 was struck by an important omission in his address there was little mention of our own individual and collective responsibility for the current crises feeing our profession. I don't think therapists can take the moral high ground with anyone when we haven't cleaned up our own house.
I remember hearing about a conversation in which a therapist who said he did family therapy was asked where he was trained. "What's the big deal?' he replied. "I'm a therapist and 1 was born into a family. What more do I need?" I asked the person who told the story, "How did you respond to that?" She shrugged and said, "Nothing. You know how people are. It goes on all the time."
In a field that prides itself on its mavericks and creative innovators, from Freud to Milton Erickson, doing therapy without training is often viewed as an indicator of a willingness to reject stultifying orthodoxies and break with outmoded clinical traditions. But the argument that individual clinicians need the autonomy to work intuitively can often become an excuse for not bothering to become thoroughly prepared and knowledgeable about what has already been developed.
As the originator of a new therapeutic approach called Eye Movement De-sensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), I have had the opportunity to get a close-up view of how therapists incorporate new clinical methods into their practices. After publishing a controlled study on EMDR in 1989, I decided to teach it to licensed mental health professionals as an experimental procedure. This way, as we awaited further research, clinicians could use EMDR judiciously, careful to employ other procedures if the method did not work. However, I soon began getting reports about clients who appeared to be harmed by EMDR and discovered that they had been treated with improvised versions of the method taught to their therapists by past participants in EMDR trainings. Some participants had even trained lay hypnotists and massage therapists in their version of EMDR. There seemed to be little understanding that you are not qualified to teach something you just learned. My psychiatrist friends laughed at my shock and said, "Why are you surprised? Haven't you heard of 'See one, do one, teach one?" Advertisements for "eye movement therapy" started appearing around the country taught by people who had never been fully trained themselves. Some even started to run workshops based on their reading of the two-page procedure section of my eight-year-old research publication.
The intentions of these therapists may have been benign, but the consequences for their clients were sometimes disastrous. One young woman who had been raped was treated by a therapist who had heard that EMDR was useful for treating trauma. Without any other information, preparation or procedural safeguards, the therapist started using the eye movement component of EMDR, without any real grasp of the method. The young woman appeared to calm slightly, but when she returned home, she started crying uncontrollably, ended up in a fugue state and had to be hospitalized. When I told the story to another therapist, his response was, "Clients do that all the time. How do you know it wouldn't have happened anyway?" The answer is I don't, but I know that there is much less likelihood of a client being hurt if clinicians are well trained in their methods. As long as we shrug off the use of methods by colleagues who haven't been adequately trained in them, we have to accept part of the responsibility for their results.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
61. Kleinman, M., & Kleinman, M. (1998, July). The dynamics of family violence: Its impact on women and children: Using EMDR to treat victims and perpetrators. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Baltimore, MD.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will: 1) understand the subtleties and complexities of abusive relationships; 2) be able to assess children for subtle signs of abuse and coercion, including brainwashing; 3) be taken through a case of successful treatment of a perpetrator; 4) be able to employ EMDR with victims of domestic vilence to "unhook" them from a controlling partner; 5) know the strategic points to address therapeutically with children growing up in these families and how to use EMDR to process past trauma and to restore self esteem; 6) better understand what makes an abuser "tick" and to assess whether or not to use EMDR with perpetrators; and 7) gain a fuller understanding of domestic violence.
Keywords: Brainwashing Children Domestic Violence Family Violence Perpetrators Victims Women
Accuracy Verified: Yes
62. Martin, G. (2007). Editorial - On rural services for mental. Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, 6(1), 1-4.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Sumithra attended the village clinic for three sessions of CBT and EMDR lasting ninety minutes each, during a three week period. EMDR involved supporting her to describe her fears and hold all the elements in mind while simultaneously engaging in bilateral eye-movements. Feedback was obtained on the material that was emotion provoking. This cycle was repeated, while observing for shifts in affect, physiological states and cognitive insights. Sumithra identified emotions and physical sensations, elicited when visual images of death and destruction were combined with the belief that my family is dead, I have no one, and I am alone in this world. Three cycles were carried out by rewinding to sections of the narrative that generated sadness and fear. On each occasion she reported the level of distress she experienced, and her distress scores (SUDS) were noted.
Keywords: Editorial Mental Health Rural
Accuracy Verified: Yes
63. Becker, L. (2000). Effect size. Lee Becker, Ph.D..
Language: English
Format: Other
Effect size (ES) is a name given to a family of indices that measure the magnitude of
a treatment effect. Unlike significance tests, these indices are independent of sample
size. ES measures are the common currency of meta-analysis studies that summarize
the findings from a specific area of research. See, for example, the influential metaanalysis
of psychological, educational, and behavioral treatments by Lipsey and
Wilson (1993).
There is a wide array of formulas used to measure ES. For the occasional reader of
meta-analysis studies, like myself, this diversity can be confusing. One of my
objectives in putting together this set of lecture notes was to organize and summarize
the various measures of ES.
In general, ES can be measured in two ways:
a) as the standardized difference between two means, or
b) as the correlation between the independent variable classification and the
individual scores on the dependent variable. This correlation is called the "effect size
correlation" (Rosnow & Rosenthal, 1996).
These notes begin with the presentation of the basic ES measures for studies with two
independent groups. The issues involved when assessing ES for two dependent groups
are then described.
The psychotherapies include: behavioral treatments (primarily different forms of
exposure therapies), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR),
relaxation therapy, hypnosis, and psychodynamic therapy.
The control conditions include: pill placebo (used in the drug treatment studies), wait
list controls, supportive psychotherapy, and no saccades (a control for eye movements
in EMDR studies).
Keywords: Effect Size
Accuracy Verified: Yes
64. Dexter, B. A. (2006, September). Effective therapy with military and their families. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Many more families are now affected dramatically
by military service and combat. War is a
disturbing experience for the service member and
the family. Yet military culture is something that
mental health providers do not receive training
on in graduate school. Military medical systems
tend to lead military families to expect certain
services and knowledge when they seek help from
a therapist. If military families are able to utilize military medical facilities they expect they providers to be experts on military culture. It is not neccssary however, for therapists to have served in the military in order to provide high
quality service to military individuals and their
families. The military community is an entire culture with many honorable customs and
traditions. To fail to learn about military culture
when working with military families would be
tantamount to telling a client that ethnic minority
issues were not worthy of therapeutic
consideration. It is more critical now for mental health providers to learn about military culture
because many Activated Reservists, National
Guard and their families will need to receive
mental health services outside of the structured
military mental health setting. There is no one
"central source" for military information needed
by a clinician in order to provide the most effective
therapy. In this workshop we will include up-todate
handouts and referral sources for therapists
serving military families. We will also identify
how to use military culture knowledge to build
rapport and to set up effective targets for EMDR
Accuracy Verified: Yes
65. Coch , I. (2012, June). The effects of trauma on gender. Poster presented at the annual meeting of EMDR Europe, Madrid, Spain.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: The main aim of this work is primarily centred on the concept of trauma (PK and PS) and their influences to the psychological parameters of the population. In order to understand these relations, the study is split in two parts. First, whether there could be some type of correlation between trauma with some other variables (HY, MF, D and Es) or not. And, to analyse any similarities and differences in relation to trauma arising from within the two groups, female and male.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
66. Oppermann-Schmid, F. (2010, Oktober). Effektivität der behandlung mit EMDR bei traumafolgestörungen in der allgemeinarztpraxis [Effectiveness of treatment with EMDR for trauma related disorders in the general practice]. EMDRIA Deutschland e.V.Rundbrief, 21, 24-25.
Language: German
Format: Newsletter
Patienten mit Traumafolgestörungen suchen meistens frühzeitig ihren Hausarzt auf. Das liegt
einerseits daran, dass der Hausarzt in unserem Gesundheitssystem für den Erstkontakt
kurzfristig zur Verfügung steht und gegebenenfalls zum Facharzt weiterleitet. Zum anderen
besteht meist eine langjährige und tragfähige Beziehung: Vertrauen zum Hausarzt seitens des
Patienten und ein guter Einblick in die persönliche und gesundheitliche Situation des Patienten
seitens des Hausarztes.
Patients with traumatic stress disorders often look to their GP early. This is
One reason that the doctor in our health care system for the first contact
available at short notice and, where appropriate, will forward to the specialist. On the other
there is usually a long and lasting relationship: trust on the part of the family doctor
Patients and a good insight into the personal and health situation of the patient
by the family doctor.
Keywords: General Practice Practice Theory Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
67. Bumke, P. J., & Sodemann, U. (2010, July). The efficacy of EMDR in a new context: Some findings from the ACEH survey. Symposium (Carolyn L. Neunuebel, Chair) conducted at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Context: As a response to the Tsunami in 2004 the Aceh Project organized by TraumaAid and sponsored byTDH and the BMZ
from 2007 to 2009 treated more than 3200 clients for psychic disorders related to traumatic experiences .The treatment was
given by Indonesian therapists who against the background of a lack of local therapists trained in psychotraumatology had to
be trained within the project under the auspices of TraumaAid. This combination of EMDR-Training and EMDR-Therapy in an
extremely challenging context also offered an unique opportunity for a parallel and wide ranging monitoring and evaluation
of the social and diagnostic parameters involved. Methodology: To guide the therapeutic process and to check on its long
term efficacy 1200 adults and 1000 children were at the outset of their therapies asked to contribute detailed diagnostic
data. While for adults the Hopkins Anxiety and Depression scales along with a 42-item Harvard Trauma Questionnaire was
administered, children and adolescents up to age of 17 were given an adapted version of the CBCL. At the conclusion of their
therapies 20 % of all respondents were rechecked with the same diagnostic scales, another group of 5 % again after 6 months.
Results: The diagnostic data indicate a dramatic improvement after therapies that involved a range of therapeutic techniques
including stabilising and EMDR protocols. The relation between diagnostic dimensions (intrusions, somatic reactions, social
relations, expression of feelings and attention problems) and social factors (gender, age) was further explored.
Keywords: ACEH Survey
Accuracy Verified: Yes
68. Molero-Zafra, M., & Perez-Marín, M. (2009, June). El duelo, la familia, el trauma y el EMDR: Analisis de un caso clínco [Grief, the family, trauma and EMDR: analysis of a clinical case]. Mosaico, 42, 28-35.
Language: Spanish
Format: Magazine
El objetivo de este articulo es mostrar como el acercamiento terapéutico del EMDR puede integrarse en la terapia familiar y narrative favoreciendo y potenciando su poder para restablecer el proceso de duelo. Para ello presentamos el análisis de una caso de duelo complicado tratado con protocolo de EMDR e incluido en un proceso terapéutico de terapia familiar y narrativa.
The aim of this paper is to show how EMDR therapeutic approach can be integrated into family therapy and narrative encouraging and enhancing their power to restore the grieving process. We present the analysis of a case of complicated grief treated with EMDR protocol and included in a therapeutic process of family therapy and narrative.
Keywords: Family Grief Narrative Therapy Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
69. Molero-Zafra, M., & Pérez-Marín, M. (2010, Abril). El EMRD aplicado al trastorno de duelo patológico. Presentación de un caso [EMDR applied to pathological grief disorder. Case report]. In EMDR: Un abordaje integral de la personalidad traumatizada (Francisca García Guerrero, Coordinadora). Simposio realizado en el Congreso Internacional sobre Avances en Tratamientos Psicológicos, Granada, Espagna.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
La pérdida de un ser querido es un evento de gran impacto emocional
que afectando a todo el sistema familiar, puede ser muy diferente en el modo
en que cada uno de sus miembros perciba, interprete, afronte y se adapte
a la nueva situación tras la pérdida y las demandas por ella creadas. Es
frecuente que una pérdida no elaborada de forma adecuada dé paso a problemas
emocionales e incluso trastornos psicopatológicos al cabo de meses
o incluso años; sin embargo, un duelo adecuadamente elaborado mejora las
capacidades futuras para enfrentarse a las situaciones de pérdida, frustración
o sufrimiento.
La premisa fundamental del modelo de procesamiento adaptativo de información
(PAI) en la que se basa la terapéutica de EMDR sería: la perturbación
que la persona sufre en la actualidad es el resultado de un almacenamiento
disfuncional de la información (Shapiro, 2001). El procesamiento
implica el forjar nuevas asociaciones con información adaptativa proveniente
de otras redes de memoria disponibles para vincularse en la red de memoria
restaurando la información disfuncional almacenada. Desde este modelo, el
duelo complicado se desarrolla cuando los componentes individuales son
tan dolorosos, que se desarrolla una alta sensibilidad cada vez que se reactiva
un fragmento del recuerdo y no se logra la integración. Los fragmentos
activados pueden competir por la atención en la mente, haciendo que ésta
vaya de atrás para adelante entre dos o más aspectos de la muerte. Esta
falta de foco impide el procesamiento de los fragmentos individuales, como
cuando el procesamiento de la pérdida en si misma se desvía por el recuerdo
de los detalles de cómo la persona murió.
En esta comunicación, presentamos el protocolo de EMDR aplicado al
duelo complicado a través del análisis de un caso clínico.
The loss of a loved one is an event of great emotional impact
that affect the entire family system, may be very different in the way
in that each of its members perceive, interpret, and adapt confronts
to the new situation after the loss and the demands created by it. this is
loss often not adequately prepared to give way to problems
psychopathology emotional and even after months
or even years, but properly prepared duel improves
future capabilities to face situations of loss, frustration
or suffering.
The fundamental premise model adaptive information processing
(AIP) which is based on EMDR therapy would be: the disturbance
the person is currently suffering is the result of a storage
Dysfunctional information (Shapiro, 2001). processing
involves forging new partnerships with adaptive information from
other networks available memory on the network to link memory
restoring the dysfunctional information stored. From this model,
Complicated grief occurs when the individual components are
so painful that develops high sensitivity reactive whenever
a fragment of memory and integration is not achieved. fragments
activated can compete for attention in the mind, causing it
go back and forth between two or more aspects of death. this
lack of focus prevents processing of the individual fragments, as
when processing the loss itself is diverted by the memory
the details of how the person died.
In this paper, we present the EMDR protocol applied to
Complicated grief through the analysis of a clinical case.
Keywords: Bereavement Case Study Grief Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
70. Mattioli, G. (2006, June). El estrés postraumatico y la terapia del EMDR [Traumatic stress and EMDR therapy]. Presentación en la Asociación EMDR España, Madrid .
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Hay expresiones que cambian la historia de nuestra profesión. "Inconsciente" "doble vínculo", "indefensión aprendida", "homeostasis familiar" o "burn out" para no poner más que unos pocos ejemplos y pidiendo perdón a tantos otros. Cambian la historia de las ideas, suele decirse, basándose quizás en la ilusión de que las ideas son entelequies que flotan en el cosmos. Sin embargo es mucho más. Cuando nace una verdadera idea ya ha cambiado o está a punto de cambiar una determinada práctica social, que entonces provoca más cambios en un determinado contexto (un "discurso" vaya, ya puestos...). La palabra "autoestima", por ejemplo, surgida hace unos años se ha ido extendiendo y dejando su huella como una marca de origen en muchas expresiones alusivas a estados de ánimo hasta convertirse en moneda de cambio. Tener la autoestima "baja" o "alta", o "veo que no tienes ningún problema de autoestima" son enunciados que se ha convertido en una "seña de identidad". Feliz expresión esta última! Todos la usamos sin la menor obligación de haber leído la novela de Juan Goytisolo que la acuñó, ni tan solo la necesidad de saber que era el título.
There are expressions that change the history of our profession. "Unconscious" double bind ","learned helplessness"," family homeostasis "or" burn out "for not putting more than a few examples and asking forgiveness as many others. Change the history of ideas, they say, perhaps based on the illusion that ideas are pipe dreams floating in the cosmos. However it is much more. Birth of a true idea has changed or is about to change a particular social practice, which then causes more changes in a particular context (a "speech" will, for that matter ...). The word "esteem"for example, born a few years ago has spread and leaving his mark as a mark of origin in many expressions suggestive of moods to become currency. Having self-esteem "low" or "high" or "I see you have no self-esteem problem" are statements that has become a "hallmark. " Happy latter expression! All we use it without any obligation to have read the novel by Juan Goytisolo who coined it, not even the need to know which was the title.
Keywords: Traumatic Stress
Accuracy Verified: Yes
71. Konuk, E., & Ergun, B. M. (2012, June). EMDR & complex post traumatic stress disorder [EMDR y Trastorno por estrés post-‐traumático complejo]. Presentation at the annual meeting of EMDR Europe Association, Madrid, Spain.
Language: English
Format: Conference
1. Alterations
2. Alterations
3. Alterations
4. Alterations
5. Somatization
6. Alterations
1. Alteraciones
2. Alteraciones
3. Alteraciones
4. Alteraciones
5. Somatización
Keywords: Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder C-PTSD Complex PSTD
Accuracy Verified: Yes
72. Bonstein, U. (2008, March). EMDR היבטים היפנוטיים בשיטת [Hypnotic Aspects of EMDR method/Professor Oren Kaplan]. Israel Society of Hypnosis, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Language: Hebrew
Format: Other
תרגום לאנגלית של עברית: המאמר בוחן את ההיבטים שיטת Hhifnotim - EMDR. אין ספק כי ה-EMDR אינו היפנוזה סמכות פורמלית. אם EMDR היא סוג של היפנוזה, ואז זה היפנוזה Arixoniani טבע, מתירנית פתוח. זה פותח את האפשרות עבור מטופלים אשר מתקשים תהליך היפנוזה פורמלית בעיניים עצומות (לרוב בשל קושי או פחד מאובדן שליטה) כדי היפנוזה "EMDR" בעיניים פקוחות מתוך אשליה כי זה לא ממש טראנס היפנוטי. גם אם ה-EMDR אינו היפנוזה יש בהחלט אלמנטים רבים ההופכים מערכת משפחתה תופעות המצב הייחודי מודעות מערכת שמשתמשת בעקרונות של תקשורת היפנוטית - סוגסטיבי. המאמר עוסק גם את המגבלות והסכנות של זה שייך
The article examines aspects Hhifnotim method - EMDR. There is no doubt that EMDR is not hypnosis formal authority. If EMDR is a form of hypnosis, then it is hypnosis Arixoniani nature, open permissive. This opens the possibility for patients who find it difficult to process a formal hypnosis with eyes closed (usually due to difficulty or fear of losing control) to "EMDR hypnosis" with open eyes from the illusion that this is not really a hypnotic trance. Even if EMDR is not hypnosis has certainly many elements that make her family system phenomena unique situation awareness system that uses the principles of hypnotic communication - suggestive. The article also discusses the limitations and dangers of this belonging.
Keywords: Hypnosis
Accuracy Verified: Yes
73. Shapiro, F. (2009, December). EMDR and adaptive information processing: Applications to individual and family therapy. Presentation at the 6th Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR directly addresses the physiologically stored
memory networks that underlie both psychological problems
and mental health. This orientation to both case conceptualization
and treatment will be explored to address
diverse clinical applications, including attachment issues,
body image, chronic pain, substance abuse, sexual dysfunction,
personality disorders, and other presenting complaints.
The Integration of EMDR with family therapy
practices will also be discussed.
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing
Accuracy Verified: Yes
74. Shapiro, F. (2005, December). EMDR and adaptive information processing: Clinical applications and case conceptualization. Presentation at the 5th Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract: EMDR is guided by the Adaptive Information Processing paradigm, which differentiates it from other forms of psychotherapy. The implications of this paradigm will be explored in relation to a variety of recent clinical case studies and research reports. Questions from participants will be used to explore potential clinical applications.
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model Adolescents AIP Cognitive Processes Family Systems Therapy Females Integrative Psychotherapy Memories Psychotherapeutic Processes Self Concept Video
Accuracy Verified: Yes
75. Protinsky, H., Flemke, K., & Sparks, J. (2001, June). EMDR and emotionally oriented couples therapy. Contemporary Family Therapy, 23(2), 153-168. doi:10.1023/A:1011193518301.
Language: English
Format: Journal
When reviewing past and current research on the role of emotion in couples therapy, there appeared to be a lack of articulation concerning how emotional expressions and relational dynamics are affected by emotional trauma that has not been accessed. The authors demonstrate how emotionally and experientially oriented therapy with couples can be enhanced by accessing stored trauma through the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). This approach is called Eye Movement Relationship Enhancement (EMRE) therapy and includes key clinical areas such as accessing and tolerating previously disowned emotion, reprocessing emotional experiences, and amplifying couple intimacy. These key areas are discussed and illustrated with case examples. [Springer]
Keywords: Empirical Study Family Therapy Literature Review Marital Problems Nonclinical Case Study Psychotherapeutic Processes Survivors Treatment Effectiveness
Accuracy Verified: Yes
76. Moore, P., & Renville, M. (1996, June). EMDR and family therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Assocation, Denver, CO.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
77. Silvestre, M., & Morris-Smith, J. (2010, June). EMDR and family therapy around the issue of domestic violence. Preconference presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Hamburg, Germany.
Language: English
Format: Conference
During this pre-conference, we will discuss the integration of EMDR and family therapy through the work done with domestic violence cases. In these particular situations, the therapist is faced with complex clinical issues that require one to think and intervene at different levels: the victim, the children's victim, the perpetrator, the family dynamics. This complex clinical situation is challenging us to develop a multilevel way of thinking and working; it is a good example of integration between personal and interrelation issues. Such an integration proves to be a necessary process when faced with the trauma consequences of domestic violence, which we all know impact each family member greatly. We will look into attachment disorder, problems with affect regulation, safety issues and the transmission of perturbed family dynamics.
We will also discuss treatment planning and how to articulate work with one person and work with a family with regard to the therapist's affiliation.
Keywords: Domestic Violence Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
78. Stowasser, J. E. (2007). EMDR and family therapy in the treatment of domestic violence. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 243-261). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Domestic violence (DV) has been defined as a pattern of verbal and physical behavior intended to control another person in an existing, former, or desired intimate relationship (Walker, 1979). Although DV is not confined to heterosexual unions or to males as abusers, this chapter focuses on heterosexual males as offenders because 85% of DV is directed by men toward women (Rennison & Welchans, 2000). This chapter discusses integrating Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR; Shapiro, 1995, 2001) and Therapy of Social Action (TSA) in the treatment of couples with domestic violence issues. A case example is then presented. The concluding discussion asserts that TSA and EMDR appear to be a powerful combination for the treatment of DV. When used with carefully selected couples, EMDR and TSA can repair the damage caused to the victims, strengthen relationships, inhibit abuser and victim tendencies in children, eliminate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), increase personal responsibility, develop nonviolent conflict resolution skills, and increase empathy for self and others. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Domestic Violence Family Therapy Integrative Psychotherapy Therapy of Social Action
Accuracy Verified: Yes
79. Sochaczewsky, E. M. (2001, May). EMDR and intergenerational violence in a children's psychiatric hospital. Presentation at the EMDR Europe Association annual meeting, London, UK .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Most of the children who come to our Clinic are multi-traumatised and very often they have
been hurt in their own families. Domestic violence is usually understood as physical and
sexual abuse and neglect, and we have learned to look at the "T-traumatas", Silent Violence,
the "t-traumatas", including constant negative feedback to the child, devaluation and
narcissistic abuse suffered from for many years in the "ghetto family" do also cause severe
woundings, which we have not yet learned to look at.
Keywords: Children Intergenerational Violence
Accuracy Verified: Yes
80. Chandarasiri, P. (2008, June). EMDR and play therapy in traumatised children. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, London, England .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Young children who are not yet fully developed mentally can not differentiate the past traumatic memory from
the present reality and in metabolising disturbing trauma memories. Children usually mix their past experience
and the present through play to help them connect the pieces of experience into a narrative that is
understandable for them. Every piece of trauma in the past is integrated into their life and may adversely
influence their personality formation. Trauma work with children through play and EMDR techniques can be
helpful in preventing such distortion, especially among disable children. EMDR method was applied to a 10 years
old boy with learning disability. He was separated from his family and stayed at the residential home. He had his
past experience of witnessing domestic violence since early infancy. The injuries sustained by his mother had
caused great concern for him. He also experienced sexual abuse by another boy which was reflected in sex play
with his peers. He had attention problem, aggressive behaviours together with difficulty in regulating his moods.
Because of his limitation, he preferred to communicate his emotions through action and play rather than
verbally. His preoccupation was expressed through figures fighting that typically resulted in death. During the
play session, the therapist would intermittently take a pause with him and the bilateral tapping was applied
corresponding with the event in play, for example checking through the worst event, the negative event, the
positive event, the strength, the changes taking place in their mind and the play. Most of his play started with
the fighting and ended with the good figures won. The installation was applied at the end. His behaviours were
monitored at the residential home and at the school. It was found later that he could control his anger better and
he was able to tell the caretakers showing that he was aware of his feelings and his behaviours. The conclusion
can be drawn that the use of bilateral stimulation during play therapy has facilitated changes in his behaviours,
affects, and communication.
Keywords: Children Play Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
81. Konuk, E., & Epozdemir, H. (2010, July). EMDR and strategic family therapy. Presentation at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Strategic Family Therapy developed some 50 years ago by a handful of visionaries at MRI (Mental Research Institute) in Palo
Alto, California. This is why sometimes it is known as the Palo Alto Group. The kind of therapy evolved at that time changed
the therapy world radically. The major shift was that:
The theory was a theory of change. The emphasis was on change rather than to understand how and why problems
The focus was relationships rather than the phenomena going on under the skin of an individual. This meant that the way
the therapist approached the clients was Systemic or interactional.
Strategic map was large enough to allow the therapist work with almost any kind of problem, borrow and use different
techniques that belong to other approaches without conflict and confusion.
At that time therapy meant globally 4-5 sessions a week for many years. This was reduced to an average of 7-10 sessions.
So when a therapist learned one of the Family Therapies, he learned essentially how to do therapy briefly.
One of the approaches that EMDR therapists may integrate efficiently into their practice is Family Therapy. It may speed up
the therapy especially when both trauma and relationships are particularly having a role in the formation and maintenance
of the problem.
In this workshop, the participants will learn:
The basic principles and techniques of Strategic Family Therapy,
Why and how change occurs,
When Strategic Family Therapy is called upon for help,
How interventions are designed and implemented.
Keywords: Strategic Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
82. Konuk, E. & Epozdemir, H. (2010, March). EMDR and strategic family therapy. Presentation at the XVIII World International Family Therapy (IFTA) Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract: Strategic Family Therapy developed some 50 years ago by a handful of visionaries at MRI (Mental Research Institute) in Palo Alto, California. This is why sometimes it is known as the Palo Alto Group. The kind of therapy evolved at that time changed the therapy world radically. The major shift was that: The theory was a theory of change. The emphasis was on change rather than to understand how and why problems exist. The focus was relationships rather than the phenomena going on under the skin of an individual. This meant that the way the therapist approached the clients was Systemic or interactional. Strategic map was large enough to allow the therapist work with almost any kind of problem, borrow and use different techniques that belong to other approaches without conflict and confusion. At that time therapy meant globally 4-5 sessions a week for many years. This was reduced to an average of 7-10 sessions. So when a therapist learned one of the Family Therapies, he learned essentially how to do therapy briefly. One of the approaches that Family and Marriage Therapists integrate efficiently into their practice is EMDR. Though EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is relatively new in the therapy world, now it is credited by many professional and governmental organizations as either treatment of choice or a valid psychotherapy approach. Especially when trauma is particularly have a role in the formation of the problem, then EMDR is a life saver for the therapist. In this workshop, the participants will learn: The basic principles and techniques of EMDR and Strategic Family Therapy Why and how change occurs When EMDR is called upon for help How interventions are designed and implemented The cases will be presented by live video recordings of sessions.
Keywords: Strategic Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
83. DeGraffenried, D. F. (2007, March). EMDR and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) recipients: A case study of trauma treatment in the home. EMDRIA Newsletter, 12(1), 6-9.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
This article, in case study format, seeks to expand how we think about and use EMDR in agency and community
mental health settings. EMDR has been slow to grow in agency settings, and this article challenges the stereotype that
EMDR is impractical in community mental health settings by describing the use of EMDR in a time-limited, homebased,
solution-oriented framework within a non-profi t community family service agency. The client was a Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) recipient who had been the victim of domestic violence and who had developed
post traumatic stress disorder.
Keywords: Home-based Interventions Needy Families TANF
Accuracy Verified: Yes
84. Weston, D. L. (1995, June). EMDR and the issues of gay clients. Presentation at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR is an effective therapeutic method for working with the emotional issues of gay clients. The first portion of this workshop
will examine the "pubic" and "relationship" definitions of homosexuality. Being gay is much more than how people express
themselves sexually.
A brief historical and cultural kamework for understanding the emotional issues of lesbian I gay persons will be presented. There
will be a review of the psychological theories and the research about the origins of homosexuality.
The second portion of the workshop will focus on the psychological path of persons recognizing they are gay. The changes in the
"pre-stonewall' and "post-stonewall" experience will be highlighted. This review of psychological experience will look at the points
where EMDR therapists can be sensitive to the presence of emotional issues related to being gay.
Feeling "different" is often a precursor to recognizing that one is gay. It is impossible to grow up in our culture without
internalization of negative attitudes about gay people. When an individual recognizes (s)he is lesbian or gay, this negative learning
now applies to one's self. EMDR is effective in resolving this "internalized homophobia."
"Coming out" to one's self is a shock because, "I am no longer the person I believed myself to be." EMDR helps clients see gayness,
not as an event happening in Me at this moment, but as something with a history related to earlier life experiences and feelings.
This perception of continuity reduces the sense of crisis around being homosexual. As internalized homophobia is resolved,
acceptance and valuing of self increases.
Using the EMDR "future template" protocol assists people in preparing to "come out" to family, fiiends, employers, etc. Gay
activists suggests that lesbian/gay persons need to be "out" in all situations. EMDR can help people understand why they want to
come out to various people in various situations. It assists in idenhfxation of what people want as the result of "coming out."
EMDR is effective in workmg with the myths about homosexuality; the cultural homophobia. Among the myths to be focused are:
gay men are promiscuous, being gay is immoral, gay sexual expression is perversion, gay relationships don't last, lesbian/gay
persons recruit young people, etc.
The third portion of this workshop will focus on issues of HIV disease. There will be a brief epidemiological presentation and focus
on the medical and psychological issues of persons with HIV disease. Application of EMDR at "crisis points" of HIV disease will
be presented: (1) the worried well, a diminishing population as the aids epidmc continues, (2) the time of HIV+ diagnosis when
the potential for suicide is highest, (3) the time of the first AIDS defining illness, (4) response to declining health and approaching
death, and (5) issues of "meaning" as life moves toward death.
EMDR's application in grief and multiple loss will be presented. Our culture's attitude that grief is something to "be resolved" and
"get over" is a mistake. Grief is an ongoing process, especially when people are dealing with multiple losses of partners, fiends, etc.
EMDR is effective in reducing the pain around loss so that the grief process can proceed more comfortably.
The workshop will end with discussion of characteristics which therapists need to evaluate in relation to the decision to work or not
work with gay and gay HIV infected clients. Working with gay men leads to working with clients with HIV disease. Therapists
need to be clear about their boundaries and comfort in dealing with home and hospital visits, touching people who have AIDS, being
present at the death of a client, and other issues that arise in HIVIAIDS care.
The rewards of working with this population and the life changes it may make for the therapist will also be highlighted.
Keywords: Gay Clients Homosexuality
Accuracy Verified: Yes
85. Knudsen, N. J. (2006, September). EMDR and the treatment of chronic relationship problems. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
A history of failed or disappointing relationships
is a primary symptom for many clients. Bowen
Theory is a family systems model that offers a
conceptual roadmap for working with individuals,
as well as families on enhancing the capacity to be
a Self, while staying in healthy connection to others.
The theory helps guide clear thinking about how
the emotional system works within a
multigenerational frame and offers concepts that
predict human relational behavior over time. Yet,
as we know, intellectual understanding can only
bring us so far without the kind of whole brain
integration that can be so swiftly brought about
with EMDR treatment. By integrating the Adaptive
Information Processing Model and the EMDR
approach with Bowen Theory, this treatment model
facilitates a client learning to have a whole new
experience in their significant relationships. This
workshop will provide a basic overview of Bowen
Theory. An integrative model using Bowen Theory
and EMDR will then be described, followed by an
in-depth case analysis illustrating the approach. The treatment includes an extensive assessment of the family system, the selection and processing of
EMDR targets causing high levels of reactivity
involving closeness to others, coaching to re-work
and repair significant relationships in the family
of origin, and finally the targeting of present day triggers in a newly forming relationship.
Keywords: Bowen Theory Relationship Issues
Accuracy Verified: Yes
86. Levin, C. (1992, July). EMDR and the treatment of partners of survivors of sexual abuse. Presentation at the Fourth World Congress on Behaviour Therapy, Queensland, Australia .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Although there are estimated to be millions of survivors of child sexual abuse, little has been said about the partners of these survivors and the extreme difficulties which they encounter. Awe believe that these partners are vicarious victims of child sexual abuse themselves. As the survivor begins to deal with the issues of his/her own sexual abuse, it catalyses experiences of guilt, shame, rage, feelings of dissociation, fear, sadness, resentment, etc. The victims feelings towards the family or origin and the perpetrator is both emotionally draining and reoccupying to the detriment of the current relationship. The partner may be blamed for lack of understanding and caring and, almost certainly, the quality of the sexual relationship changes for the worse. Often, as the victim bombards the partner with disparaging comments and temper tantrums, the partner may begin a process of emotionally distancing. The survivor experiences this distancing as a further injury and the relationship continues a downward spiral.
Keywords: Partners of Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
87. Donovan, L. (2002, June). EMDR and traumatized children/adolescents: Systemic affect regulation. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, San Diego, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Developmental and systemic perspectives support incorporating the caregiver/family in EMDR treatment of children and adolescents to
maximize efficacy and minimize risks. Participants will learn to: 1)
identify multiple options, risk factors, and guidelines (eg, for timing,
sequencing, identifying the need for EMDR/RDI in the traumatized parent/caregiver as well as the child); 2) identify strategies to maximize vicarious
processing, and promote resource development and affect regulation in
the caregiver/family; 3) define with the family ways to provide safety,
take rerponsibility and guide choices; and 4) utilize the nartural relational
context to develop affect regulation in the child/adolescent.
Keywords: Adolescents Affect Regulation Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
88. Epozdemir, P., Haciomeroglu, S., & Konuk, E. (2012, June). EMDR and treatment of stuttering: Towards a protocol [EMDR y el tratamiento del tartamudeo: Hacia un protocolo]. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Madrid, Spain.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Stuttering can be defined in general terms as disturbance in the fluency of speech. Stuttering shows itself with psychological
reactions as abstaining from talking, being afraid of making mistakes and with motor reactions as tics in different parts of the body, elongations,
repetitions of the words and hesitations. In addition stuttering people are often observed to avoid speaking in certain situations, with certain
people, showing social anxiety, high levels of distress and muscle contractions before and/or while speaking. They are also noted to experience
relational difficulties and poor quality of life related to all the above factors.
Even though there are different etiological approaches for stuttering, we observe that people with stuttering problem have early childhood
traumas. Throughout their lives, other traumatic events, mostly related to stuttering; feelings of humiliation, inadequacy, rejection and others
worsen the problem. According to our limited number of cases working with those traumas significantly decreases our clients social anxiety
and this improvement is positively reflected to the fluency of their speech.
In this workshop, we will first give general information about stuttering and its etiology, emphasize how relations are organized around
stuttering and with video clips we will present how we approach the treatment of stuttering from an EMDR perspective.
En términos generales, se puede definir el tartamudeo como una alteración en la fluidez del lenguaje. El tartamudeo se
manifiesta a través de reacciones psicológicas tales como abstenerse de hablar, tener miedo de equivocarse y con reacciones motrices como
tics en distintas partes del cuerpo, prolongaciones, repeticiones de las palabras y vacilaciones. Es más, a menudo se observa que las personas
que sufren del tartamudeo evitan hablar durante ciertas situaciones, con algunas personas en particular; muestran ansiedad social, niveles
altos de estrés, y contracciones musculares antes y/o mientras hablan. También se ve que sufren dificultades con las relaciones y una mala
calidad de vida relacionada con los factores previamente mencionados.
Si bien existen planteamientos etiológicos distintos para tratar el tartamudeo, hemos observado que los individuos con problemas de
tartamudeo han sufrido eventos traumáticos en la infancia. A lo largo de sus vidas, otros sucesos traumáticos, en su mayoría relacionados
con el tartamudeo; sentimientos de humillación, ineptitud, rechazo y otros empeoran el problema. En nuestra experiencia limitada, el trabajo
con estos sucesos traumáticos disminuye significativamente la ansiedad social de nuestros clientes y dicha mejoría se refleja positivamente
en la fluidez de su habla.
En este taller, empezaremos por ofrecer información general acerca del tartamudeo y su etiología; señalaremos cómo se organizan las
relaciones entorno al tartamudeo y, con vídeos, presentaremos nuestra forma de afrontar el tratamiento del tartamudeo desde la perspectiva
de EMDR.
Keywords: Stuttering
Accuracy Verified: Yes
89. Wesselmann, D., Davidson, M., Armstrong, S., Schweitzer, C., Bruckner, D., & Potter, A. E. (2012). EMDR as a treatment for improving attachment status in adults and children. Revue Européenne De Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, 62(4), 223-230. doi:10.1016/j.erap.2012.08.008.
Language: English
Format: Journal
The purpose of the article is to examine the current literature regarding evidence for positive change in attachment status following Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and to describe how an integrative EMDR and family therapy team model was implemented to improve attachment and symptoms in a child with a history of relational loss and trauma.
The EMDR method is briefly described along with the theoretical model that guides the EMDR approach. As well, an overview of attachment theory is provided and its implication for conceptualizing symptoms related to a history of relational trauma. Finally, a literature review is provided regarding current preliminary evidence that EMDR can improve attachment status in children and adults.
Clinical findings:
A case study is described in which an EMDR and family therapy integrative model improved attachment status and symptoms in a child with a history attachment trauma.
The case study and literature review provide preliminary evidence that EMDR may be a promising therapy in the treatment of disorders related to attachment trauma.
Keywords: Adult Attachment Interview Attachment Disorder Family Therapy Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
90. Preston, J. (2000, September). EMDR as an approach to systems work. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will: 1) review basic tenants of systems theory and its application to family or couple therapy; 2) know several important aspects of using EMDR with couples and families, such as safety issues, selection of EMDR targets; and decisions about who should be present during sessions; 3) learn ways to apply systems thinking to work with individuals; and 4) review using EMDR in light of a systemic approach to individual work.
Keywords: Couple Therapy Family Therapy Safety Issues Systems Theory Targeting
Accuracy Verified: Yes
91. Shapiro, F. (2002). EMDR as an integrative psychotherapy approach: Experts of diverse orientations explore the paradigm prism. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.
Language: English
Format: Book
Beyond the talking cure: somatic experience and subcortical imprints in the treatment of trauma; The developing mind and the resolution of trauma: some ideas about information processing and an interpersonal neurobiology of psychotherapy; EMDR and psychoanalysis; EMDR and cognitive-behavior therapy: exploring convergence and divergence; Combining EMDR and schema-focused therapy: the whole may be greater than the sum of the parts; EMDR: an elegantly concentrated multimodal procedure?; EMDR and hypnosis; EMDR and experiential psychotherapy; Feminist therapy and EMDR: theory meets practice; EMDR in conjunction with family systems therapy; Transpersonal psychology, eastern nondual philosophy, and EMDR; Integration and EMDR.
Keywords: Adults Psychotherapy Psychotherapeutic Processes Stressors Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
92. Aelen, F., & Chateau, K. (2005, November). EMDR bij systeemtherapie [EMDR therapy and systems]. Workshop gepresenteerd aan de eerste congres van de Vereniging EMDR Nederland, Ede, The Netherlands.
Language: Dutch
Format: Conference
Bij de keuze systeemleden bij de behandeling te betrekken spelen, ook bij behandelaren, cognities een rol mee.
Cognities over de groei-en helingmogelijkheden die het gezin (van oorsprong) biedt en over zijn beperkende of zelfs schadelijke invloed op de ontwikkeling van individuen.
De systeemtherapeut beweegt zich in het -voor anderen soms onoverzichtelijke- moeras van kansen en gevaren voor het individu: zij heeft leren sturen en wijken, neemt risicos om gedragsverandering te bewerkstelligen, maar stelt veiligheid voorop.
Hoe kan een individueel therapeut op een veilige manier systeemleden betrekken en waartoe kan een systeemtherapeut EMDR inzetten ?
Getraumatiseerd is een individu op zijn kwetsbaarst: Het besluit om systeemleden bij de behandeling te betrekken moet dan ook altijd in het voordeel van de getraumatiseerde cliënt zijn
Wanneer traumatisering heeft plaatsgevonden binnen het gezinssysteem van oorsprong (of wanneer de ouders niet bij machte zijn geweest om op traumatisering van buiten adequaat te reageren) ontwikkelt een individu disfunctionele cognities over zichzelf en over zijn kernrelaties, die vaak generaliseren naar de wereld buiten het gezin. Dit is van invloed op o.m. latere partnerrelaties. Het betrekken bij de EMDR-behandeling van een good enough partner kan de individuele cliënt helpen deze gegeneraliseerde cognities te vervangen door passender en meer productiever cognities.
In de workshop besteden we aandacht aan de vraag hoe een individueel therapeut op een veilige manier systeemleden kan betrekken bij de EMDR-behandeling en aan de vraag waartoe een systeemtherapeut EMDR kan inzetten.
Een eerste stap in het gebruik maken van de extra kansen die het systeemdenken biedt aan EMDR-therapeuten, is het, hypothetisch, in kaart brengen van de positieve en negatieve systeeminvloeden voor de cliënt middels het maken van het genogram . Dit om de effecten van de EMDR te plaatsen in de relationele leergeschiedenis van het individu.
Een tweede stap is het betrekken van liefdevolle en betrouwbaar geïnvolveerde partners (of vrienden) en het verzilveren van de EMDR met de kernrelatie, waarbij op natuurlijke wijze verbeteringen of soms (tijdelijke) moeilijkheden aan bod komen.
Een derde stap is het ineenweven van EMDR en systeemgesprekken, waarbij naast traumaverwerking gezonder verhoudingen het doel zijn en resultaten op beide gebieden elkaar logischerwijs versterken.
In select members for the treatment system involvement, here when medical professionals play a role with Cognitions.
Cognitions about the growth and healing potential of the family (or origin) and limiting or Has Been here Harmful Effects on the Development of Individuals.
The therapist moves the system to others-Sometimes-confuse Morass of opportunities and risks for the Individual: the therapist has learned to steer and districts, taking risks for behavior change, but does put safety first.
How Can an Individual therapist in a safe way to members and involvement System Which Can Deploy a system EMDR therapist?
A traumatized individuality to be vulnerable: The decision to members in the treatment system involvement Should therefore always in favor of the traumatized client
When trauma occurred HAS Within the Family System of Origin (or When parents are Unable to bone traumatization 'outside' appropriate response) initially develop an individuality Dysfunctional Cognitions about himself and his key relationships in loss or That Generalize to the world outside the family. This subsequent component seem ambiguous to partner relationships. The involvement of the EMDR treatment or a 'good enough' partner, an individuality to help client thesis generalized Cognition to replace more and more Productive Appropriate Cognitions.
In the workshop we focus on how an individuality in a safe system therapist members Can Participate in the EMDR treatment and to demand a System Which Can use EMDR therapist.
A first step in making use of the extra opportunities the system offers to think EMDR Therapists, it is, hypothetically, identify the positive and negative Influences on the client system through the creation of the genogram. That the effects of EMDR to place in the relational learning history of the individuality.
A second step is the involvement or permission and secure agreement of the partners (or friends) and "Redeem" the core relationship with EMDR, which Sometimes Naturally Speaking Improvements or (temporary) problems to be addressed.
A third step is weaving together of EMDR and system calls, which in addition to trauma and healthy relationships are the results in objectifying both areas reinforcement each other logically.
Keywords: Systems Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
93. Sterpone, R., & Paiuzzi, E. (2008, Novembre). EMDR come momento di ulteriore integrazione professionale tra differenti operatori di cura di un ospedale infantile [EMDR as a moment of further integration between vocational different operators care children's hospital]. Presentazione Le applicazioni cliniche del EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
La presentazione si propone di raccontare come lEMDR sia diventata, in un ospedale infantile, strumento di ulteriore integrazione professionale tra i differenti operatori di cura.
LEMDR viene utilizzata, infatti, non solo con bambini e adolescenti che giungono nella Struttura Operativa di Psicologia, ma viene richiesta dai medici dei vari reparti per i pazienti, ed eventualmente per i loro familiari, ricoverati in seguito ad esposizione ad eventi critici. Lintervento con EMDR viene, inoltre, effettuato con alcuni genitori i cui figli sono ricoverati in merito a malattie gravi o croniche. Gli stessi operatori di cura, in seguito ad eventi potenzialmente traumatici in ambito lavorativo, vengono aiutati con gruppi di debriefing, e, se necessario, con lEMDR per riprocessare situazioni dolorose, ritrovare benessere e funzionalità lavorativa. Operatori di cura differenti, sistemi conoscitivi$differenti, ma insieme
insieme per cocostruire con il paziente e la sua famiglia una nuova narrativa ed aiutarli ad attribuire nuovi significati ad esperienze dolorose o fallimentari.
The presentation aims to "tell" how EMDR has become, in a children's hospital, tool for further integration between the different operators of professional care. EMDR is used, in fact, not only with children and adolescents who come in the Structure Works on psychology, but is required by doctors of various departments for patients, and possibly for their families, hospitalized after exposure to critical events. Intervention with EMDR is also made with some parents whose children are hospitalized on serious or chronic illnesses. Operators themselves to care, in the aftermath of potentially traumatic in employment, are helped with groups of debriefing, and, if necessary, with EMDR for reprocess painful situations, to find wellness and functionality work. Operators care
ifferent cognitive systems different, but together ... together with the patient and cocostruire its family a new narrative and help to give new meaning to experiences painful or unsuccessful.
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
94. Salomoni, S. R. (2012, Novembro). EMDR e terapia familiar: Um caso de fibromialgia [EMDR and family therapy: A case of fibromyalgia]. In EMDR e fibromialgia. Apresentação no II Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Terapia Familiar Sistêmica, de forma integrada. Objetivo: Demonstrar como a associação das duas abordagens permite alterar o foco do individual para o familiar e do familiar para o individual, resultando em superação de traumas e integração individual, com relações mais saudáveis. Método: O EMDR foi
utilizado para reprocessar traumas, a partir de queixas da cliente. Segundo Bruck, o trauma é uma experiência que explode a capacidade de suportar um revés, traz perda de sentido, desorganização corporal e paralisação da consciência corporal; pode deixar marcas que influenciam a criatividade e a motivação para a vida. Assim, mesmo uma pessoa com boa estrutura de personalidade, resiliente e com família funcional, não está imune ao trauma.O outro pilar teórico norteador do trabalho é a Terapia Familiar, uma vez que os modelos de transação experimentados na família de origem constituem-se matrizes de aprendizagem para as transações sociais futuras. Para Souza, a família é um microcosmo, um universo em miniatura, representativo do mundo lá fora e do lá dentro de cada um de nós. Considera-se também a rede social pessoal, definida por Sluzki como a soma das relações que o indivíduo percebe serem significativas para si. Desta maneira, busca-se a dinâmica na família, que pode facilitar ou dificultar o trabalho com o indivíduo. Com o EMDR lidamos com traumas recentes e antigos e com crenças limitantes, e a partir daí são mobilizados recursos positivos inacessíveis até então, devido ao bloqueio de traumas. Esses recursos individuais já mais acessíveis são então integrados na vida familiar e social. Resultados: Apresento o caso de uma moça de 28 anos com diagnóstico médico de fibromialgia, universitária, que tinha abandonado os estudos e estágio, com fortes dores e muito tempo na cama, que após 15 sessões de psicoterapia, incluindo as sessões familiares, voltou às suas atividades normais.
Systemic Family Therapy, seamlessly. Objective: To demonstrate how the combination of the two approaches allows you to change the focus from the individual to the family and the family for the individual, resulting in overcoming traumas and individual integration with healthier relationships. Method: The EMDR was
used to reprocess trauma, from customer complaints. According to Bruck, "trauma is an experience that explodes the ability to support a setback, brings loss of meaning, and paralysis of body clutter body awareness, can leave marks that influence creativity and motivation for life." Thus, even a person with good personality structure, resilient and functional family, is not immune to trauma.O another pillar guiding theoretical work is Family Therapy, once the transaction models experienced in the family of origin constitute matrices of social learning for future transactions. For Souza, the family is a microcosm, a miniature universe, representative of the outside world and the inside of each of us. It is also considered a social network, defined by Sluzki as the sum of the relations that the individual perceives itself to be significant. In this way, search the dynamics in the family, which can facilitate or hinder the work with the individual. With EMDR deal with recent and old traumas and limiting beliefs, and from there are positive resources mobilized hitherto inaccessible, due to blockage of trauma. These individual features are now more accessible then integrated into family and social life. Results: I present the case of a girl of 28 years with a medical diagnosis of fibromyalgia, university, who had abandoned his studies and internship, with severe pain and a lot of time in bed, that after 15 sessions of psychotherapy, including family sessions, returned to their normal activities.
Keywords: Family Therapy Fibromyalgia
Accuracy Verified: Yes
95. Baita, S. (2012, June). EMDR en niños con trastornos disociativos [EMDR in children with dissociative disorders]. Pre-Conference presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Madrid, Spain.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Sandra Baita will describe the case of a dissociative girl whose traumatization was a consequence of early exposure to chronic sexual abuse
by her father. In this case, Dr. Baita will explain the challenge of working with systems surrounding the child other than the family, for example,
the Justice System. She will focus on the paramount importance of the first stage of treatment and the achievement of external security when
working with severely traumatized children. Dr. Baita will offer for discussion with the attendees, the development of a treatment plan for this
dissociative girl using EMDR during the therapeutic stages of security and stability, working with traumatic memories, and integration.
Sandra Baita expondrá el caso de una niña con un trastorno disociativo en el cual la traumatización ha sido consecuencia de la exposición
temprana a abuso sexual por parte del padre. En este caso, la Dra. Baita explicará el desafío que implica trabajar con otros sistemas además
del familiar, tales como el sistema de Justicia. Ilustrará además la relevancia que adquiere la primera etapa del tratamiento y el establecimiento
de un contexto real de seguridad externa en el tratamiento de niños severamente traumatizados, y mostrará, para su discusión con los
asistentes, el desarrollo del tratamiento exhaustivo de esta niña utilizando EMDR a lo largo de las etapas de seguridad y estabilidad, trabajo
con las memorias traumáticas e integración.
Keywords: Children Dissociative Disorders
Accuracy Verified: Yes
96. Laurel Parnell, L., & Burns, M. (2010). EMDR for the traumatized caregiver. Vernon, CT: Fair Point Productions.
Language: English
Format: Video
Live EMDR demonstration session conducted by Laurel Parnell with a participant from her EMDR training course. The session took place in a classroom setting with EMDR trainees observing the work. In this video, the client is a woman bothered by a recent traumatic event: the serious/chronic illness of a close family member.
Keywords: Caregivers
Accuracy Verified: Yes
97. Farrell, D., Keenan, P., & Basil, J. (2006, March). EMDR HAP training in India in the aftermath of the tsunami. Presentation at the 4th annual Conference of the EMDR UK & Ireland Association, London, UK.
Language: English
Format: Conference
On 26th December 2005 the southern coastline of India was hit by a tsunami, which resulted in the deaths of over 28,000 people. This natural disaster caused the widespread devastation to the region. As part of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programme as series of EMDR Levels 1 and 2 were established in Chennai, Southern India offering training to mental health workers specifically working the tsunami affected areas. The project was funded by Cerner/First Hand Foundation project with the remit primarily focusing upon the trauma impact upon children. For the purpose of this presentation, the Chennai project will be outlined, providing insight into how the trainings were carried out from a teaching and learning perspective. It will also consider trauma experiences from a cultural viewpoint, which potentially challenges western constructs of PTSD phenomena. Particular attention wil be focused upon the aspects of the Negative and Positive Cognition and how this seems to be potentially a cultural component to the EMDR protocol. Indian practitioners determined that 'mind and body' are one in the same. Yet EMDR training emphasises the importance of distinguishing between thoughts and feelings. As a result many of the trainees struggled with this aspect. Discussion will also explore more widespread trauma characteristics of the tsumani including how the trauma impacted from an individual, family, and community perspective.
Keywords: HAP Training Tsunami
Accuracy Verified: Yes
98. Gambuzza, C. A. (2010, June). EMDR in complex trauma of perinatal disorder and abuse. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Hamburg, Germany .
Language: English
Format: Conference
This paper reports a case of PN-PTSD (Perinatal Disorder),
this being a disorder that is not frequently diagnoses and
not classified in DSM-IV, where a technical variation of floatback,
i. e., floatback-floatforward on timeline successfully overcame the posttraumatic amnesia, optimized access to the dissociated parts
of the Self, and integrated the Internal Family System with EMDR
and Ego State Therapy.
The sixteen year old patient, S, sniffed heron and practised self mutilation.
After two years' therapy the family secret was revealed in a
dream and led us towards the abuse. I adopted the theoretical
reference models on dissociation reported by M. Steinberg, B. A.
van der Kolk, 0. van der Hart, and C. McFarlane's operative
EMDR model and Ego State Therapy.
The aim of the therapy was to rebuild integrity of the Self and to
foster individualization- separation processes. The main goal was
create a sense of loyalty during therapy that would allow S to be
able to control in transitions in her dissociated mental states. Negotiation
between the ego states were created so that S could face
the states of terror and anxiety and gradually become integrated.
Alter had different names and distinctively different preferences
and personality traits, at times those alter took complete executive
control of the body and of the self. Initially the alter has
names outside the Self, then during the course of therapy their
names began with '5'. The dissociated alters have become targets
far EMDR.
The story of S, revolves round two traumas: PN-PTSD and
Perinatal trauma and uterine perception of her mother's depressive
emotional states triggered difficulties in the child latching on
to the mother's breast, and the lack of mirroring and affective
syntonization caused the failure of internalization processes that
lead to identity.
5 was aware of the trauma of abandonment, but not of the trauma
of abuse that she defined as 'a deep impenetrable hole'. In order
to address the life-threatening trauma. S used an invasive ego-dystonic
coping mechanism: dissociation of the object and the Self.
By placing the abuse in an alter, S could still feel attached to her
family members that abused her, actively or passively using silence.
While the DES scale did not provide significant dissociation
results, the SCID-LIST furnished high values.
The self-mutilation practised by S may represent her hate of her
body that did not rebel to the abuse it was subjected to, or, as she
said it may represent "a way to punish herself for the guilt
of existing or to inflict upon herself physical pain to conceal the
anxiety of death".
EMDR was a challenge; it reached the preverbal states of the
arena of the primary process, it bound with emotions and led her
to symbolization, t resolved the traumatic matter that was frozen
In the neural networks and determined Self- integration. The Ego
States Therapy was a useful tool.
Keywords: Perinatal Disorder
Accuracy Verified: Yes
99. Kaslow, F. W., Nurse, A. R., & Thompson, P. (2002). EMDR in conjunction with family systems therapy. In F. Shapiro (Ed.), EMDR as an integrative psychotherapy approach: Experts of diverse orientations explore the paradigm prism (1st ed.) (pp. 289-318). Washington: American Psychological Association.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
The field of family therapy seemed to coalesce around 1960, although some of the early pioneers were already conducting and writing about family systems and treating multipatient units before then. This chapter offers a brief overview of the field and then provides case studies in which EMDR is the primary treatment methodology, used within a family systems perspective, or both. [Text, p. 289]TOPICS TREATED: Evolution of the field (key concepts; various conceptual models); EMDR and family systems therapy (Case studies: EMDR used to break an impasse, EMDR used to facilitate effective coparenting during a divorce, EMDR used in a transgenerational transmission process; additional uses of EMDR with family systems therapy); EMDR and traditional thought in family systems therapy; Description of positive treatment effects of EMDR; How EMDR lets family therapists use what they know; How EMDR extends the outcomes of family therapy; Suggestions for strengthening EMDR; Using EMDR to investigate interesting areas in family therapy.
Keywords: Adults Family Therapy Life Experiences Marital Problems Psychotherapeutic Processes Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
100. Gaudin, M. (2011). EMDR in terapia familiare: tre diversi utilizzi con una stessa famiglia [EMDR in family therapy: Three different applications with the same family]. Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
Keywords: Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
101. Browning, C. (2000, March). EMDR in the inner city: Paterson, New Jersey. EMDRIA Newsletter, 5(1), 26.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
During my Level I training, I couldnt
help thinking about a family Id treated
several years earlier while working in
Paterson, New Jersey, a
socioeconomically impoverished inner
city. The family was a grandmother and
four young grandchildren who had
recently been placed in her custody.
Their mother and little sister had been
brutally slaughtered with a knife by their
father while they were home. The four
surviving children were suffering from
nightmares about the incident, grief and
loss issues, and fears that their father
would get out of jail and come after them.
One of the children, a five-year-old girl,
had developed elective mutism. She had
narrowly escaped the same fate as her
mother and sister. The little girl had been
an eyewitness to the murders and as she
fled from her father, she slipped on her
mothers blood and was nearly caught
by him. As I listened and learned at Level
I, I wished that Id known EMDR when
I was working in Paterson.
Keywords: Family Violence: HAP Training
Accuracy Verified: Yes
102. Silver, S. (2012, October). EMDR in the military: Trauma, attachment and families. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Arlington, VA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This workshop provides participants with information on the unique nature of military service, including sources of stress and trauma not commonly found in the civilian sector. The current operational environment of the Global War on Terror as well as experiences and issues of veterans of other eras are covered. Military-based trauma can be complex and therapeutic approaches often need to take this into account as well as the value systems of military personnel. While EMDR is highly effective with service members, fine tuning of the protocol is often useful. Family problems in attachment are addressed.
Keywords: Attachment Families, Military Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
103. Klaff, F., & Dutton, P. (2000, September). EMDR in the playroom: Creative processing. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will: 1) understand the necessity of eliciting material from children in indirect, projective ways; 2) understand the meaning of "creative processing" in the EMDR context as a method of both accessing and treating children's problems where direct methods may fail to produce desired outcome; 3) learn specific skills which apply the EMDR method through the medium of fantasy, play, story, metaphor, sensory experience, and enactment; 4) learn how to apply the creative process to separate elements of the standard EMDR protocol, and to make adjustments appropriate to the age and developmental stage of the individual child; 5) observe direct use of EMDR creative processing techniques via case material and videotaped therapy sessions; and 6) recognize the importance of integrating family systemic issues into use of the techniques, as well as embedding the method into a total contextual treatment of the child.
Keywords: Children Enactment Fantasy Metaphor Play Sensory Experience Storytelling
Accuracy Verified: Yes
104. Zampieri, M. A. J. (2012, Novembro). EMDR no espaço pessoal and relacional [EMDR within personal and relational]. In EMDR e visão sistêmica. Apresentação no II Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Proposta focalizando conceitos do EMDR, Teoria de Papéis e da Teoria Sistêmica de Terapia Familiar, de modo que o profissional já treinado (ainda que parcialmente em EMDR) possa trabalhar associando ao EMDR, situações inter e intrapsíquicas. Para tanto utilizar-se-á recursos propostos por Shapiro, Kaslow e Maxfield, e, recursos adicionais apresentados por MAJZampieri no I Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, acrescidos por novas experiências da proponente sobre EMDR no espaço pessoal e relacional.
Proposal focusing on concepts of EMDR, Theory Papers and the Theory of Systemic Family Therapy, so that the already trained professional (albeit partially in EMDR) EMDR can work linking to, inter and intra-psychic situations. To use both features will be proposed by Shapiro, Kaslow and Maxfield, and additional resources provided by the MAJZampieri I Brazilian Congress on EMDR, plus new experiences on EMDR proponent of personal and relational space.
Keywords: Family Therapy Family Therapy Intervention Combined Inter- and Intra-Psychic
Accuracy Verified: Yes
105. Maccarrone, B., & De Divitiis, A. M. (2008, Novembre). EMDR per eventi recenti - Un modello e un nuovo protocollo [EMDR to recent events - a model and a new]. Presentazione Le applicazioni cliniche del EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Il ricordo di un trauma recente differisce da quello di un trauma avvenuto in un passato più distante, poiché è ancora frammentato e disorganizzato e quindi non si è ancora integrato allinterno di un evento coerente, pertanto potrebbe non essere ancora generalizzato e rappresentato da unimmagine. Questo è il motivo per cui per il trattamento terapeutico di eventi traumatici avvenuti da alcune settimane, o forse anche da pochi mesi, sarà necessario ricorrere ad un protocollo specifico che pur preservando lintegrità delle 8 fasi del protocollo EMDR standard, sia in grado di approcciare levento allinterno di un resoconto.
In questo lavoro verrà descritto un protocollo, elaborato da Elan Shapiro e Brurit Laub per il trattamento dellEpisodio Traumatico Recente ( Recent Traumatic Episodi Protocol ; R-TEP), il quale approccia levento in termini di episodio intero (definito come il periodo che va dallevento traumatico ad oggi) ed introduce una strategia per la scelta del target, da loro denominata Google Search. Lipotesi è che lassimilazione e lintegrazione dellinformazione traumatica avvenga ristabilendo la regolazione adattiva dellattenzione; le relazioni parte/tutto si muovono attraverso catene associative nella direzione della differenziazione e integrazione puntando al completamento, nel senso dellintegrazione armonica delle esperienze negative e positive. Lelaborazione si muove da un ristretto focus sullimmagine (livello percettivo), ad un più ampio focus sullevento /episodio (livello esperienziale), sino ad un focus esteso riferito al tema/identità (livello di significato).
Il completamento dellelaborazione di un trauma recente potrà prevenire lo sviluppo di un PTSD, ristabilendo lElaborazione Adattiva dellInformazione (AIP).
The memory of a recent trauma differs from that of a trauma occurred in a past more distant it is still fragmented and disorganized and therefore not yet integrated in a event consistent, so it may not yet be generalized and represented by an image. That is why for the treatment of traumatic events that occurred some weeks, or maybe even a few months, you must use a specific protocol that even preserving the integrity of the 8 phases of EMDR standard protocol, is able to approach the event within a report.
In this paper we describe a protocol, developed by Elan Shapiro and Laub Brurit for Traumatic handling of the episode recently (Traumatic Recent Episodes Protocol, R-TEP) which approaches the event in terms of the whole episode (defined as the period from event traumatic present) and introduces a strategy for choosing the target, which they called "Google Search. The hypothesis is that the assimilation and integration of information occurs traumatic adaptive re-establishing control of attention, relations part/whole move through associative chains in the direction of differentiation and integration aiming at completion, harmonious integration in the sense of positive and negative experiences. Processing moves by a narrow focus on the image (perceptual level), to a broader focus on the event/episode (experiential level), up to an expanded focus refers to theme / identity (level of meaning).
Completing the development of a recent trauma may prevent the development of PTSD, restoring the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP).
Keywords: Recent Events Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
106. Omaha, J. (1998, July). An EMDR protocol for treatment of chemical dependency disorder. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Assocation, Baltimore, MD.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will learn: 1) the Chemotion Model for chemical dependency disorder describing how substance abuse presents an reenactment of childhood emotional trauma: 2) how specific object relations deficits constitute emotional traumas that translate into specific chemical dependencies in the adult substance abuses; 3) how the object relations deficits driving chemical dependency can be evoked through Gestalt communication technique or recognized in dreams; and 4) how to apply principles of EMDR to desensitize and reprocess object relations deficits driving chemical dependency.
Keywords: Chemotion Dreams Gestalt Object Relations Deficits
Accuracy Verified: Yes
107. Gomez, A. (2012, May). EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children: Complex trauma, attachment, and dissociation. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
Language: English
Format: Book
This is the first book to provide a wide range of leading-edge, step-by-step strategies for clinicians using EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children with severe dysregulation of the affective system. Written by an author internationally known for her innovative work with children, the book offers developmentally appropriate and advanced tools for using EMDR therapy in treating children with complex trauma, attachment wounds, dissociative tendencies, and compromised social engagement. The book also presents the theoretical framework for case conceptualization in EMDR therapy and in the use of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model with children.
Principles and concepts derived from the Polyvagal Theory, affective neuroscience, attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, developmental neuroscience and the neurosequential model of therapeutics, which can greatly support and expand our understanding of the AIP model and complex trauma, are presented. The text also offers an original and pioneering EMDR therapy-based model to working with parents with abdicated caregiving systems. The model is directed at assisting parents in developing the ability for mentalization, insightfulness, and reflective capacities linked to infant's development of attachment security.
A unique and innovative feature of this book is the masterful integration of strategies from other therapeutic approaches, such as Play therapy, Sandtray therapy, Sensorimotor psychotherapy, Theraplay and Internal Family Systems (IFS), into a comprehensive EMDR treatment maintaining appropriate adherence to the AIP model and EMDR therapy methodology.
Key Features:
Provides creative, step-by-step, "how-to" information about the use of EMDR therapy with children with complex trauma from an internationally known and innovative leader in the field
Explores thoroughly the eight phases of EMDR therapy in helping children with attachment wounds, dissociative tendencies and high dysregulatio
Incorporates adjunct approaches into a comprehensive EMDR therapy while maintaining fidelity to the AIP model and EMDR therapy methodology
Contains an original EMDR therapy-based model for helping parents with abdicated caregiving systems to develop metalizing and reflective capacities
Keywords: Adjunct Approaches Attachment Children Dissociation Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
108. Knipe, J. (2012, October). EMDR toolbox: Methods of extending EMDR to traumatized clients with significant vulnerability to dissociative abreaction and/or psychological defenses. Presentation at the 29th annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Long Beach, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:The focus of this workshop will be to describe a theoretical framework, and specific EMDR-related therapy tools which may be useful during Janets Phase 2, the Phase of trauma processing, for multiply-traumatized clients with Complex PTSD. Points of similarity and difference will be described between the EMDR Adaptive Information Processing Model, and two other models of dissociation treatment: the Theory of Structural Dissociation of the Personality and the Internal Family Systems model. EMDR variations will be described which increase emotional safety, and thereby extend the use of EMDR to clients who might otherwise be vulnerable to the intrusion of overwhelming post-traumatic memory material. Through transcript and video examples, the Loving Eyes method (for safely accessing a traumatized Part), the Back-of-the-Head Scale (for measuring the degree of dissociative experience, moment-to-moment, in a therapy session), and the method of Constant Installation of Present Orientation and Safety (for maintaining emotional safety during the processing of a traumatic memory) will be presented. In addition, the structure and treatment of psychological defenses will be conceptualized within the Adaptive Information Processing Model.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the Loving Eyes method of developing a co-consciousness between an adult Part and a traumatized child Part.
2. Describe the clinical situations in which the use of the Back-of-the-Head Scale and the method of Constant Installation of Present Orientation and Safety would be likely to be helpful to a traumatized client.
3. Describe how psychological defense may be conceptualized within the Adaptive Information Processing model, and how defenses may be safely released, so that underlying post-traumatic material may be processed.
Keywords: Dissociative Abreaction Psychological Defenses Toolbox
Accuracy Verified: Yes
109. Tormey, M. E. (2003, May). EMDR treatment of children and adolescents with school refusal in the outpatient setting: The role of trauma resolution, imaginal exposure and in vivo desensitization and reprocessing resulting in student reintegration to the classroom. In EMDR with children and adolescents. Symposium conducted at the annual mmeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Rome, Italy.
Language: English
Format: Conference
School refusal behavior is defined as a child-motivated refusal to attend school, or difficulties remaining in school for the entire day. As a heterogeneous condition, it can encompass aspects of phobic-type responses or separation anxiety disorder. This condition interferes with the childs development as it impacts upon academic performance, family and peer relationships in the short-term realm. Long-term effects may include fewer employment and educational opportunities, as well as the development of psychiatric sequelae. This presentation will describe the use of EMDR as a comprehensive treatment for the child or adolescent with school refusal. Case presentations will describe assessment of the problem, with treatment of targets in the individual child or as part of a family systems intervention. Highlights will be placed on the rapid resolution of school refusal behaviors through the processing of traumatic incidents, versus those conditions requiring a more extended and extensive treatment program. The creative implementation of in vivo EMDR will be described in the successful classroom reintegration of two students
[Author abstract]
Keywords: Adolescents Children Imaginal Exposure, In Vivo Desentization, Outpatient Setting School Refusal Student Reintegration Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
110. Konuk, A. (2010, June). EMDR treatment of chronic daily headache and migraine. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Hamburg, Germany.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Chronic headache is a prevalent clinical problem
which affects negatively the majority of the population. The
most common type of headache is migraine and tension headache.
These can decrease the functioning and the quality of
life of people who suffer from headaches in different contexts
as work, family, school and social life. In addition, a lot of psychological
disorders such as depression and anxiety are seen or
occur in people who have headaches.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness
of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
on Chronic Daily Headache and Migraine. Within this
framework there are three goals, one of which is to measure the
efficiency of EMDR treatment on chronic headache population.
The second one is to develop an EMDR Headache Protocol so
that the treatment is standardized and will be used, revised and
updated by researchers and clinicians in the future. The third
one IS to find an answer to the question: How long does it take
to treat a headache? That is, to determine the minimum and
maximum sessions necessary for the treatment.
Method: The study is carried out at Gaziosmanpa,sa Hospital
Neurology Department in Istanbul with 11 Turkish patients
who had suffered from chronic daily headache and migraine.
The sample of this study consisted of 9 women and 2 males.
Results: The results demonstrated that the frequency, the intensity
and the duration of headaches were reduced by using
EMDR Also it was shown that the number of emergency visits
and the amount of painkillers used were decreased. The study
will be explained in more detail and the results will be discussed
during the presentation.
Our learning objectives are:
1. to gain theoretical information about the rationale of using
EMDR in treatment of chronic headache and migraine
2. to gain empirical information about the efficacy of this treatment
3. to discuss the EMDR Headache Protocol as well as the number
of sessions necessary for the treatment.
In previous studies, EMDR has been found to be efficient in the
treatment of chronic pain. Nevertheless, there was a gap in the
literature regarding the efficacy of EMDR in the treatment of
chronic daily headache and migraine.
The novelties that are provided by this current study are
1. It may be an alternative treatment for chronic headache and
migraine in the future
2. although the research question needs further investigation, it is the first empirical study which examines the effectiveness
of this treatment.
Keywords: Headache Medical Issues Migraine Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
111. Manon, M. (2007). EMDR Treatment of family abuse: Eye movement to "I" movement. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 95-110). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
This chapter presents an inside view of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) narrated by a client who was requested to tell her story to educate clinicians and clients so that others might be healed. The client's vivid account of her emotional history, along with the description of various memories targeted in treatment and the results of her processing sessions, provide an illustration of the therapy. Her emotional upheaval and adult relationships are a reflection of the cauldron of abuse, deceit, and chaos intrinsic to her family of origin. As indicated by the Adaptive Information Processing model, her symptoms were largely the result of the earlier negative experiences from childhood that were dysfunctionally stored in her brain. These memories had inherent within them the emotions and perspectives that generated her negative sense of self and inability to function happily in the world. The processing of the memories of these early events resulted in accelerated learning and a concomitant transmutation of her personal identity and self-efficacy. An addendum to the case by Kaslow elucidates the family systems perspective. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model Child Abuse Cognitive Processes Early Memories Family Abuse Family Systems Perspective Memories
Accuracy Verified: Yes
112. Bethiaume, B. (2001, May). EMDR treatment with two school-based referrals. Poster presented at the EMDR Europe Association annual meeting, London, UK .
Language: English
Format: Conference
School referral for behaviour is many times a last resort for teachers and administrators at a
loss to deal with a student's distress. This post illustrates two such cases and the effective use
of EMDR to clear underlying trauma at the core of the observable behaviour. It raises the
issue of age of trauma with critical developmental tasks of children and implications for
treatment. The first is a single trauma at age 11 and treated at age 13. The second occurred at
age 3 and treatment occurred at age 7.
L. is a 13 year old girl whose family had moved three times in the past 3 years and at her new
school, she became extremely distressed in the morning to the point of not being able to stay
in class. The underlying trauma took place 2 years ago, and did not manifest itself
behaviourally until the current move. Using EMDR, resolution was achieved in a short
period of time. C. is a 7 year old girl referred because her fears were preventing her from normal activities of her grade level. The sound of fire alarm bells were particularly distressful. The family recently moved from another country and reported no prior history of this type of behaviour.
Interweaving EMDR in the treatment process was effective in treating past traumas, some of
which appeared to have no verbal memory and culminated in her current distress. Parental
understanding and involvement in using EMDR was crucial to the treatment.
Keywords: Children Poster School Referrals
Accuracy Verified: Yes
113. Saint Paul, N. V. (2001). EMDR und systemische familientherapie [EMDR and family systems therapy]. EMDRIA Deutschland e.V. Rundbrief, 2, 14-17.
Language: German
Format: Newsletter
Bei der gemeinsamen Betrachtung von EMDR mit familientherapeutischen Ansätzen fallen zunächst die Gegensätze auf.
EMDR wird üblicherweise im Einzelsetting angewendet. Die Behandlung steht meist im Kontext von bestimmten Krankheitsdiagnosen (typischerweise von traumabedingten - aber auch anderen - Störungen).
In der (systemischen) Familientherapie wird eine Diagnostizierung möglichst vermieden, Konzepte werden "verflüssigt", Symptome werden im Hinblick auf ihre Wirkung im (Familien-)System hin untersucht. Beispielsweise wird ein Patient als "Symptomträger" innerhalb der Familie bezeichnet. Man sucht also nach dem Sinn oder Nutzen, den die Symptomatik für die Familie hat. Insofern ist man recht weit davon entfernt, gezielte Interventionsmethoden zu suchen, mit denen dann der einzelne behandelt wird, um ein Symptom zu beseitigen. Allerdings wurde dies von den Begründern der Familientherapie keineswegs für ausgeschlossen erklärt (vgl. bspw. Stierlin et al. 1977, 16).
EMDR ist dementsprechend in der familientherapeutischen Literatur und den einschlägigen Fachzeitschriften bisher so gut wie nicht zur Kenntnis genommen worden. Eine Ausnahme bildet The Family Therapy Networker im Jahr 1993, der dem Thema EMDR ein Special Feature widmet (vgl. Butler (1993) und O'Brien (1993)).
Von Seiten der EMDR Praktizierenden gibt es durchaus Hinweise auf die Vereinbarkeit. Tinker & Wilson (2000, 229) verweisen auf die Nützlichkeit der Ergänzung der EMDR-Arbeit durch familientherapeutisches Vorgehen. Lempa (2000) beschreibt die Verbindung der EMDR-Einzelbehandlung mit familientherapeutischen Gesprächen innerhalb des stationären Settings und berichtet über positive Erfahrungen im Hinblick auf die Akzeptanz der Behandlung in den Familien.
Ich halte die wechselseitige Betrachtung der Ansätze für sehr fruchtbar und möchte hier einige Gedanken und Erfahrungen dazu darstellen.
In the common view of EMDR with family therapy approaches, first fall to the opposition.
EMDR is usually applied in individual settings. Treatment is usually in the context of specific disease diagnoses (typically from trauma-related - errors - but also others).
In the (systemic) family therapy, a diagnosis will be avoided where possible, concepts will be "liquefied" symptoms in terms of their effect in the (family) system were investigated. For example, a patient is a "symptom carrier" within the family. Therefore, we look for the meaning or benefit that the symptoms for the family. In this respect it is quite far from seeking specific intervention methods by which the individual is then treated to remove a symptom. However, this was by the founders of family therapy not declared excluded (see, for example, Stierlin et al. 1977, 16).
EMDR has been accordingly in the family therapy literature and the relevant journals previously taken almost no notice. The Family Therapy Networker an exception is in 1993, the subject of EMDR devotes a special feature (see Butler (1993) and O'Brien (1993)).
Sides of the EMDR practitioner, there are indications of the compatibility. Tinker & Wilson (2000, 229) point to the usefulness of supplementing EMDR work with family therapeutic approach. Lempa (2000) describes the connection of individual EMDR treatment with family therapy calls within the inpatient setting and reported positive experiences with regard to the acceptance of the treatment in the home.
I think the mutual inspection of approaches for very fruitful and would like to present some thoughts and experience to do so.
Keywords: Family Systems Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
114. Saint Paul, N. V. (2001). EMDR und systemische familientherapie [EMDR and systemic family therapy]. Institut fur Traumatherapie.
Language: German
Format: Other
Bei der gemeinsamen Betrachtung von EMDR mit familientherapeutischen Ansätzen fallen zunächst die Gegensätze auf.
EMDR wird üblicherweise im Einzelsetting angewendet. Die Behandlung steht meist im Kontext von bestimmten Krankheitsdiagnosen (typischerweise von traumabedingten - aber auch anderen - Störungen).
In der (systemischen) Familientherapie wird eine Diagnostizierung möglichst vermieden, Konzepte werden "verflüssigt", Symptome werden im Hinblick auf ihre Wirkung im (Familien-)System hin untersucht. Beispielsweise wird ein Patient als "Symptomträger" innerhalb der Familie bezeichnet. Man sucht also nach dem Sinn oder Nutzen, den die Symptomatik für die Familie hat. Insofern ist man recht weit davon entfernt, gezielte Interventionsmethoden zu suchen, mit denen dann der einzelne behandelt wird, um ein Symptom zu beseitigen. Allerdings wurde dies von den Begründern der Familientherapie keineswegs für ausgeschlossen erklärt (vgl. bspw. Stierlin et al. 1977, 16).
In the common view of EMDR with family therapy approaches, first fall to the opposition.
EMDR is usually applied in individual settings. The treatment is usually in the context of specific disease diagnoses (typically from traumatic - but also others - problems).
In the (systemic) family therapy, a diagnosis will be avoided where possible, concepts will be "liquefied" symptoms are examined in terms of their effect in the (family) system down. For example, a patient as a "symptom carrier" means within the family. It therefore seeks for the meaning or benefit that the symptoms for the family. In this respect it is quite far away from seeking specific intervention methods by which the individual is then treated to remove a symptom. However, this was by the founders of family therapy does not declared excluded (see, for example, Stierlin et al. 1977, 16).
Keywords: Systemic Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
115. Chomin, L. A. (2009, February 22). EMDR unlocks traumatic events frozen in time. Observer & Eccentric, B8.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Complicated grief is one
of traumatic events
in which Eye Movement
Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR) can
be used to unlock and resolve
disturbing events that remain
frozen in time. Chaloux had
been partying with a friend
on Super Bowl Sunday and
missed the call that his
grandmother was dying.
Family thought his presence
might have strengthened her
her will to live since the two were
close. Chaloux's grandmother
helped raise him.
Keywords: Complicated Grief David Breeden General Overview
Accuracy Verified: Yes
116. Yuksek, H., Ozgun, S., & Eke, I. (2009, Mart). EMDR ve stratejik aile terapisi'nin entegre kullanimi [Integrated use of strategic family therapy and EMDR]. Presentation at the Ulusal Aile ve Evlilik Terapileri Kongresi [National Family and Marriage Therapy Congress], İstanbul, Turkey.
Language: Turkish
Format: Conference
Bu çalısma grubunda Göz Hareketleriyle Sistematik Duyarsızlastırma ve Yeniden Đsleme (Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing-EMDR) ve Stratejik Aile terapisinin entegre
kullanımı ile ilgili örnekler katılımcılarla paylasılacaktır.
Öncelikle EMDR terapisinin kısa bir açılımı yapılacak ve sonrasında, sunum sahipleri, her iki
terapinin efektif ortak kullanımı ile ilgili vaka örneklerini katılımcılarla paylasacaktır.
In this workshop, examples of the integrated practice of Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR) and the Strategic Family Therapy will be shared with the audience.
First, the EMDR Therapy will be introduced, and then the presenters will demonstrate case
examples in which the two therapeutic approaches were effectively combined.
Keywords: Strategic Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
117. Darker-Smith, S. (2007, June). EMDR vs CBT in the treatment of anorexia nervosa: A preliminary study. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
In working with clients with anorexia nervosa for the past 18 months, it has become apparent that while many clinicians continue to utilise a variety of treatment means, CBT or systemic family therapy are often treatments most frequently offered to the sufferer. However, what does appear to be consistent is the general view (e.g., Waller; Treasure; Brewer) that recovery will take an average between 1 to 2 years with many clients suffering from this disorder never making a full or complete recovery.
With this in mind, sixteen clients with a previous diagnosis of anorexia nervosa and under medical supervision with a BMI of 16.5 18 and still meeting the mental criteria of anorexia nervosa (DSM IV) were offered either EMDR (N.10) or CBT (N.6). Starting with the premise that most sufferers of anorexia nervosa argued that simply eating is not the answer but rather the mechanism by which control is maintained it was agreed that regular weigh-ins and the use of food journals would form part of the study however, no therapeutic emphasis would be placed directly on food in either the CBT or the EMDR group.
Those receiving EMDR recovered substantially quicker and with less food-related exposure, once the target memory precipitating the anorexic onset was identified. Interestingly, food intake and weight increased without needing to be targeted as a separate matter, once the feeder memory had been adapted in 8 out of the 10 EMDR clients. In the remaining two clients, behavioural experiments targeting the practice of behaving (and eating) normally one day a week in order to reduce the fear of normality was used with good effect.
Whilst the CBT group did improve, they continued to fluctuate in terms of active anorexic patterns of behaviour and their weight or food intake did not appear to improve significantly.
Although the trial lasted for 6 months duration, on average, the EMDR group reached recovery at around 3-4 month mark, compared to the CBT group of which five noticed improvement, however, did not appear to have increased weight and still reported phobic reactions to both body-mage and food at the 4 month mark. One in the CBT group did make a significant improvement based on cognitive restructuring alone and this client did increase weight and intake significantly at the same ratio as the EMDR group.
At the initial 1-month follow-up post-study, the CBT group were still exhibiting symptoms of mental pre-occupation with diet/weight compared to the EMDR group who had reached normal BMI ranges (N.9) and all reported little to no pre-occupation with diet/eight.
Although this study is still pending follow-ups of all clients, there would appear, on the basis of this preliminary study that anorexia nervosa appears to respond better to EMDR in shorter treatment duration than CBT.
Furthermore, six of the EMDR group reposed using safe-space imagery to reduce their anxieties surrounding food and this may have been a contributory factor.
Keywords: Anorexia Nervosa CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
118. Ward, C. (2010, March). EMDR with a family using a group protocol. Presentation at the 8th EMDR Association UK & Ireland Annual Conference & AGM, Dublin, Ireland.
Language: English
Format: Conference
I will
present a way of working with families using EMDR, offer question and discussion time
and the opportunity to explore the approach. I would very much like to provide an arena
to discuss and share learning about EMDR with families and to agree some success criteria
for working in this way.
The focus of my presentation is the successful use of the EMDR group protocol to work
with domestic abuse.
I will describe the use of images to process memories and current fears.
I will cover what made the approach successful in the context of the existing resources.
Conference Abstracts
I will describe our learning about co-working across different modalities in the way that we
The workshop will have an interactive and experiential focus, which I hope will capture the
energy and creativity of the approach.
New Learning points:
Adapting and developing a group EMDR protocol
Co-work with a parent and a colleague from another modality
Using EMDR to process the legacy of domestic abuse
Keywords: Family Group Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
119. Ward, C. (2010, June). EMDR with children and adolescents in a family setting using a group protocol. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Hamburg, Germany.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Our aim: We will present some EMDR family work,
offer question and discussion time and the opportunity to explore
the approach. We would very much like to provide an
arena to discuss and share learning about EMDR with families
and to agree some success criteria for working in this way.
The focus of our presentation is the successful use of the EMDR
group protocol with a family of 5 children. The children
had witnessed domestic abuse and had been physically abused themselves. We were greatly assisted by the children's mother Lea
who co-worked with us. We will include how we structured 1. I
support for her to carry out this difficult role.
We will describe the use of images to process the children's
memories and current fears.
We will cover what made the approach so successful in the children's and our opinion, including the context of the existing resources.
We will describe what we learnt about co-working across different
modalities in the way that we did.
The workshop will have an interactive and experiential focus which
we hope will capture the energy and creativity of the approach.
Learning points:
- Adapting and developing a group EMDR protocol to work
with a family of 5 children.
- Co-work with a parent and a colleague from another modality.
- Using EMDR to process the legacy of domestic abuse by the children's father including processing current fears.
As co-workers we found that, using the vehicle of the EMDR
group protocol has been an exciting and effective initiative. My
colleague and I came from different agencies and worked together in the family's home in a collaborative way with the children, parent and each other We will include in our presentation the children's and parent's views on what worked for them and on the process as a whole.
Keywords: Adolescents Children Family Group Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
120. Silvestre, M., & Morris-Smith, J. (2010, July). EMDR with children and families. Presentation at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
During this practical skills gaining workshop using video examples of clinical material and theoretical presentation, we will talk
about basic ideas of EMDR work with children, EMDR protocol adaptation according to the child developmental level, safety
and attachment issues, family dynamics and integration with family therapy work. We will discuss case conceptualisation
and treatment planning through video clips analysis. The participants will be invited to bring case material and questions
during the course of the workshop.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
121. Morris-Smith, J., & Silvestre, M. (2009, June). EMDR with children, adolescents and family relationships in the context of domestic violence. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Children Domestic Violence
Accuracy Verified: Yes
122. Lovett, J. M. (1995, June). EMDR with Children: Eleven months to eleven years. Presentatioj at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
There are special considerations when treating children for critical incidents, anxiety, or other "EMDR amenable" conditions.
Especially challenging for EMDR practitioners, young children may not be able to verbalize their thoughts, feelings, or beliefs
children old enough to understand treatment options may choose to keep their symptoms rather than experience temporarily
increased anxiety during treatment. Even cooperative children may not be able to identify a positive cognition because their life
experience and/or cognitive development have not yet permitted resources for self-soothing or making sense of life changing events.
Furthermore, children are dependent on an adult or family for their physical safety and emotional wellbeing. Although the child may
be the "identified patient," the parents' own post-traumatic beliefs may be triggering the child's symptoms, and a successful outcome
for the child may depend on the parents' reprocessing of traumatic material.
Case studies will be presented to illustrate how the EMDR practitioner workmg with children can integrate EMDR techniques with
play therapy, use "EMDR enhanced" games, choose an appropriate positive cognition for a young child, introduce creative
interweaves to reach trauma resolution, and work with parents to separate their PTSD triggers from their child's behavior.
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
123. Meignant, I. (2011, June). EMDR with couples in the context of family therapy [EMDR mit paaren im kontext der familientherapie]. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Vienna, Austria.
Language: English
Format: Conference
The use of both Mony Elkaïms systemic model and the AIP model is a new perspective for couplestherapy and for EMDR target plan and further in individual therapy where relational problems are involved. This workshop will teach present a way to do a target plan for relational problem treatment. Focusing on couplestherapy the workshop will show how to do an EMDR case conceptualization integrating the systemic model. It will propose clinical question/answer that will help to decide to use EMDR or not in the couple session, choosing the position of the other member of the couple during the reprocessing phases. It will show the use of individual safe places as a safe place for the couple during the session and at home.
What we propose here is that the understanding of Mony Elkaïms Systemic model for a couple in crisis guides us to find where to work on the past of each member to heal the couple in the EMDR target plan. We imagine that this understanding can be of help to build a bridge between any 2 parts of a relation: 2friends, 2 colleagues, 2 persons from different culture or religion.
The presentation will illustrate how the systemic model created by Mony Elkaïm for understanding couple crisis can be useful in the EMDR treatment of couples, EMDR case conceptualization and EMDR target plan. This model insists on the double bind in which each member of the couple is torn between his/her Official Program and his/her World View. For example: "I want to be loved" (O.P) and" if someone loves me he will leave me" (W.V.). These world views are creating repetitive cycles which are trapping the members of the couple or of any people in interaction. The aim of the EMDR practitioner is to treat the dysfunctional stored memories connected with these world views and give them flexibility to free the members of the couple from the vicious circle in which they are caught.
In this presentation we propose to show how making hypothesis about the World view of each member of the couple and verifying them will guide us to the individual target that will be the Gordian knot in the present problem the couple is dealing with, hence helping the system to evolve from a situation of crisis to a situation of equilibrium.
Using EMDR will help to give flexibility to the world view of each member. Using it within Mony Elkaïms systemic model will help the couple. Following each phase of the EMDR model eight-phases protocol, we will show how it will be applied to couple therapy with case studies and practice example. We will see how this target plan can apply to any dyad or system in crisis in family therapy, couple therapy and individual therapy.
Learning objectives:
Understand how to use the systemic model, reciprocal double bind, to find the individual targets that are involved in the couple or any relational present problem in an EMDR target plan.
Being able to do the installation of EMDR safe place as a resource for the couple.
Evaluate more clearly whether and when to use EMDR in the couple therapy session.
Knowing specifications of each of the 8 phases EMDR protocol with couple.
Keywords: Couples Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
124. Friberg, M. (2004, June). EMDR with two adolescents suffering from dissociative symptoms after sexual abuse: both with considerable weight-loss during treatment. In children and EMDR (R. Oras, Chair). Symposium conducted at the EMDR Europe Association annual meeting, Stockholm, Sweden .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Clinical case-presentation of EMDR-treatment of a boy and a girl, sixteen and eighteen years of age respectively, both with a history of different dissociative symptoms. Both were sexually abuse and both had a considerable weight-loss during EMDR-treatment. Symptoms prior to my contact with the body was pseudo-epileptic fits with shaking, cramps, eyes turning inside out and sometimes turning quite blue. After he could be spoken to, he could drink and seemed oriented in time and space, but later had total amnesia of the dissociative episode that could last for several hours. He also had pain in one leg and got the diagnosis Sympatic Dystrophia and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Memory of the sexual abuse was completely hidden behind a screen memory of being abuse physically by a schoolmate until very late in EMDR-treatment. The girl had family relations problems, eating disturbance, suicidal behavior and intense sways in temper and server conflicts with her mother. The sexual abuse by a relative was known and the dissociation was not diagnosed before screening with DES>
Both had different kinds of somatic and/or psychological long treatment, with little success, before entering EMDR-treatment. Both had an EMDR-treatment period of almost one-year and both were given the Putnam DES-scale before, during, and eight months after treatment.
In both cases, there was decline from very high Putnam DES scores to normal. At the eight month follow-up, the boys results persisted and weight was regained. The girl us just about to end treatment so there are no follow-up results. However, her weight is back to normal.
Is weight loss during EMDR-treatment noticed by other EMDR-therapists?
Keywords: Children Dissociation Sexual Abuse Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
125. Bardin, A. (2004). EMDR within a family system perspective. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 15(3), 47-61. doi:10.1300/J085v15n03_04.
Language: English
Format: Journal
EMDR is a method used to help the individual trauma victim process the psychological aftereffects of trauma (PTSD). The effects of traumatic experiences, however, spread throughout the victim's family. The case presented here describes the treatment from three perspectives: individual, family, and social context (eco-social). EMDR, used with a nine-year-old stabbing victim, was integrated into wider therapeutic work within the family. This integration widened the focus from the IP to other members of the system, allowing the use of EMDR to spread to four out of the five family members. The effects of the trauma on the family and its members were most effectively treated by a combination of individually and systemically oriented interventions.
Keywords: Clinical Case Study Emotional Trauma Empirical Study Family Family Therapy Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Therapeutic Process Trauma Victims
Accuracy Verified: Yes
126. Gonzalez, A., & & Mosquera, D. (2012). EMDR y disociación. El enfoque progresivo [EMDR and dissociation: The progressive approach]. Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Pleyades.
Language: Spanish
Format: Book
Durante las últimas dos décadas, el EMDR se ha convertido en una opción de primera línea para el tratamiento de trastornos de estrés postraumático asociados a la exposición de eventos traumáticos, como accidentes, catástrofes naturales o desastres creados por el hombre. Mientras tanto, los clínicos han visto que la aplicación de EMDR es útil en el tratamiento de pacientes que han sufrido episodios emocionalmente traumáticos, descritos por ellos como característicos de su familia de origen, su historia personal y sus relaciones de apego. Un gran número de investigaciones y publicaciones han examinado en profundidad la eficacia de EMDR en este campo de trabajo de la psicoterapia. Por lo tanto, el EMDR está siendo utilizando cada vez más por los clínicos, trabajando con personas que sufren de traumas crónicos vinculados a relaciones interpersonales traumáticas.
Es de sobra conocido que, en los primeros años de vida, las interacciones con los demás dan lugar a conexiones importantes en el cerebro, que progresivamente influyen en la sensación interna que tenemos de nosotros mismos y la capacidad de tener relaciones sanas con el mundo exterior. Las experiencias de relaciones con las figuras de apego durante la infancia temprana pueden ayudar a desarrollar la autorregulación emocional y contribuir a la formación de patrones cognitivos, conductuales y emocionales. La investigación sobre el apego ha demostrado que son estas relaciones las que influyen en el desarrollo de la capacidad de equilibrar las emociones, establecer intimidad interpersonal, así como de la capacidad de autorreflexión y mentalización. Además, es evidente que la comunicación interpersonal y emocional dentro de la familia de origen puede sentar las bases para el desarrollo de recursos, el sentirse valioso y la resiliencia cuando uno está bajo una fuerte tensión emocional, fomentando por tanto la salud mental.
During the past two decades, EMDR has become a first line option for the treatment of PTSD associated with exposure to traumatic events such as accidents, natural disasters or man-made disasters. Meanwhile, clinicians have found that the application of EMDR is useful in treating patients who have suffered emotionally traumatic events described by them as characteristic of their family of origin, personal history and their attachment relationships. A lot of research and publications have examined in depth the effectiveness of EMDR in this field of work of psychotherapy. Therefore, EMDR is being used increasingly by clinicians, working with people suffering from chronic trauma related to interpersonal trauma. It is well known that in the first years of life, interactions with others lead to important connections in the brain that progressively influence the internal sense of ourselves and the ability to have healthy relationships with the outside world . The experiences of relationships with attachment figures in early childhood may help develop emotional self-regulation and contribute to the formation of cognitive patterns, behavioral and emotional problems. The attachment research has shown that it is these relationships that influence the development of the ability to balance emotions, establish interpersonal intimacy and the capacity for self-reflection and awareness. It is also clear that interpersonal and emotional communication within the family of origin may lay the foundation for the development of resources, to feel valued and resilience when one is under emotional stress, thus promoting mental health.
Keywords: Dissociation
Accuracy Verified: Yes
127. Mosconi, A., Pezzolo, M., & Trotta, B. (2012, June). EMDR y terapia sistemica - Puntos de conexión, relectura e integración en el proceso terapéutico [EMDR and systemic psychotherapy - Connection points, new interpretations and integrations in the therapeutic process]. Poster presented at the annual meeting of EMDR Europe, Madrid, Spain .
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
En el aproche sistémico-relacional del Milán Model, el primer paso para la introducción de un cambio sea al interno de un contexto de terapia individual sea de pareja y/o familiar, es la construcción junto al paciente/sistema familiar de una Hipótesis Sistémica relativo al problema llevado. Tal proceso proporziona
la exploración en profundidad sea sincrónica sea
diacrónica de los contextos relacionales generadores del problema.
La hipótesis con respecto al sistema Relacional coconstruida
en el proceso terapéutico, toca temas
específicos a través de el uso de precisas técnicas locuaces.
Los pilastros de la hipótesis cumplen las dimensiones descritas en el cuadrilátero sistémico en el cual el problema del paciente está conectado en un proceso recursivo a los aspectos interpersonales del contexto de pertenencia.
In the systemic-relational approach of Milan Model, the first step to the introduction of a change both within the context of individual therapy and couple/family one
consists of outlining a Systemic Hypothesis on the given problem together with the patient/family system. This
process involves both synchronic and diachronic indepth exploration of the relational contexts representing the problem generators.
The hypothesis referred to the relational system, outlined together during the therapeutic process, touches specific subjects through the use of specific conversational techniques.
The pillars of the hypothesis comply with the dimensions highlighted in the Systemic Quadrilateral where the problem of the patient is connected to a process related to the interpersonal aspects of his environment.
Keywords: Poster Systemic Psychotherapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
128. Shapiro, F. (2007). EMDR, adaptive information processing, and case conceptualization. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 1(2), 68-87. doi:10.1891/1933-318.104.22.168.
Language: English
Format: Journal
EMDR is an integrative, client-centered psychotherapy approach that emphasizes the brain's information processing system and memories of disturbing experiences as the bases of those pathologies not caused by organic deficit or insult. EMDR addresses the experiences that contribute to clinical conditions and those needed to bring the client to a robust state of psychological health. Overviews of the history, development, and research that have established EMDR as an empirically supported treatment are provided. Subsequent to an explanation of the adaptive information processing model, an extended case example is used to illustrate the recommended EMDR case conceptualization and eight phases of treatment. This approach is used to process the early memories that set the foundation for the pathology and the present situations that trigger the dysfunction, while providing templates for appropriate future action that incorporate the information and behaviors needed to overcome skill and/or developmental deficits. The benefits of integrating EMDR and family systems perspectives to provide the most comprehensive therapeutic effects are described. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing AIP Case Conceptualization Family Systems Therapy Integrative Psychotherapy Memories
Accuracy Verified: Yes
129. Yoeli, F., & Prattos, T. (2009). The EMDR-accelerated information resourcing (EMDR-AIR) protocol. In M. Luber (Ed.), Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) scripted protocols: Basics and special situations, (pp. 31-45). New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
The EMDR Accelerated Information Resourcing Protocol (EMDR-AIR Protocol®) is designed to accelerate the search for the resources necessary to resolve the client's current crisis or long-term issues. The idea evolved from the "Double-Hai" paradigm (Yoeli & Prattos, 2005), which is a short-term intervention for use with couples. The EMDR-AIR Protocol is designed to look for that learned generational reaction to trauma that the client is currently using to cope with the current situation while, at the same time, tapping into the historical strengths and resources that enabled survival. These resources are found through the rapid accessing of client history by using the Multi-Tiered Trans-Generational Genogram (MTTG). The MTTG is a format that brings life and new energy into your work with clients and into the life of your client. As the therapist and the client evolve the MTTG, the client teaches the therapist and himself about his richly textured history. Through the legacy of this history, the client gains clarity about his circumstances and an appreciation of life under the best and worst circumstances. Through the practitioner's interest and curiosity, the client learns the fascination that comes from viewing the dynamics of his family through the generations. The process creates a longer lasting effect, solidifying the results of the EMDR session [(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA]
Keywords: Accelerated Information Resourcing AIR Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
130. Fredin, I. (2005). EMDR-behandling: Barns och ungdomars upplevelser en kvalitetssäkringsstudie [EMDR treatment: Ensuring the quality of EMDR as a treatment for children and young people]. Umeå University, Sweden.
Language: Swedish
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
Föreliggande studie är dels ett led i att kvalitetssäkra EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) som behandlingsmetod för barn och ungdomar och dels att utröna om behandlingen bidragit till ett förbättrat mående. EMDR som behandlingsmetod för barn och ungdomar har stöd i kontrollerade studier, men ytterligare forskning behövs. I den här studien deltog åtta barn och ungdomar med varierande diagnoser, vilka fått EMDR-behandling i barn- och ungdomspsykiatrisk öppenvård. Behandlingen ingick i en individualterapi i ett familjeterapeutiskt sammanhang. Barnen/ungdomarna intervjuades per telefon om hur de upplevt behandlingen och om sitt mående i efterförloppet. Information om diagnoser, C-GAS, antal EMDR-sessioner samt terapeutens bedömning inhämtades som komplement till intervjun. Resultaten visar att EMDR-behandlingen upplevs ha bidragit till att obehagskänslor och symtom minskade, men i olika grad, för alla intervjuade barn/ungdomar. Denna förändring kunde också noteras i terapeutens bedömning och i de bedömda C-GAS-värdena. Alla kände sig trygga under behandlingen och tyckte att de fick tillräcklig information. Hälften tyckte att konfrontationen med de svåra minnena var det mest obehagliga. Vissa detaljer i protokollet, såsom att bestämma målbild, upplevdes svårt för över hälften. Alla intervjuade skulle rekommendera EMDR-behandling till andra. Det positiva resultatet talar för att EMDR är en användbar metod för barn- och ungdomar med traumatiska minnen, och att det är värdefullt att satsa på fortsatt forskning kring EMDR med barn- och ungdomar.
The present study is the first part of ensuring the quality of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) as a treatment for children and young people and also to determine if the treatment contributed to an improved malaise. EMDR as a treatment for children and adolescents is supported by controlled studies, but further research is needed. In this study, eight children and adolescents with various diagnoses who received EMDR treatment in child and adolescent psychiatric outpatients. The treatment was part of an individual therapy in a family therapy context. Children / young people were interviewed by telephone about their experiences and treatment of their malaise in its aftermath. Information on diagnosis, C-GAS, number of EMDR sessions and the therapist's assessment was collected as a supplement to the interview. The results show that EMDR treatment is perceived to have contributed to the discomfort and symptoms decreased, but to varying degrees, all interviewed children / adolescents. This change was also noted in the therapist's assessment and the assessed C-GAS-values. All felt safe during the treatment and felt they had enough information. Half thought that the confrontation with the difficult memories was the most unpleasant. Some details of the protocol, such as determining the vision, difficulty was experienced for more than half. All respondents would recommend EMDR treatment to others. The positive results suggest that EMDR is a useful method for children and adolescents with traumatic memories, and that it is worthwhile to invest in continued research on EMDR with children and adolescents.
Keywords: Adolescents Children: Psychotherapy Trauma Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
131. Wesselmann, D., Schweitzer, C., Bruckner, D., & Armstrong, S. (2012, October). EMDR-family therapy integrative team approach for healing attachment trauma in children. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Arlington, VA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Children who have experienced early maltreatment and who have been relinquished or removed from birth families frequently exhibit severe and challenging behaviors. Therapists are caught in a Catch-22, as children require an emotionally supportive environment from caregivers to open up emotionally and address the traumas underlying their behaviors, and yet the child behaviors create feelings in the the parents that prevent them from being able to provide emotional support. The EMDR Integrative Team model allows for collaboration between a family therapist and an EMDR therapist in order to change parent-child patterns and create a secure holding environment for trauma therapy.
Keywords: Attachment Trauma Children Family Therapy Intergrative Approach
Accuracy Verified: Yes
132. Forgash, C. A. (2002, June). EMDR/ego state work in trauma response situations: Working with survivors of the WTC 9/11 tragedy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, San Diego, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Therapists who respond to massive trauma find that some clients (i.e., people who escaped the WTC Towers, rescue workers, firefighters, and those who have lost family members) may be triggered into reexperiencing earlier traumas and may present with a dissociative disorder. Integration of EMDR and Ego State Therapy provides a safer approach. Unresolved trauma necessitates dealing with ego states that hold earlier memories/symptoms to prevent poor response to standard EMDR. This presentation emphasizes practical, safety focused innovations; planing for longer EMDR treatment; developing resources, stability and readiness; container and imagery exercises to help clients deal with triggering stressful situations. This workshop will provide handout and bibliography; case illustrations and slides of clients treated in the aftermath of disaster.
Keywords: 9/11 Disaster Ego State Therapy September 11th Survivors World Trade Center WTC
Accuracy Verified: Yes
133. Shapiro, F. (2008, May). EMDR: 21st-century therapy and the possibilities for healing. Presentation at the Academy for Guided Imagery Conference.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) has been so well researched that it is
now recommended as a front line treatment for trauma in the Practice Guidelines of American
Psychiatric Association, and those of the Department of Defense and of Veterans Affairs. It is
an integrative psychotherapy that offers a new and distinct approach to personality
development and the treatment of pathology.
The clinical applications of EMDR with an information processing focus can be used as a general
model of psychotherapy addressing a full range of issues of everyday clinical practice, including
family therapy impasses. Increasingly, research evidence is showing that theres a kind of
psychological change that can happen at the level of adaptive information processing, opening
up the possibility of powerful therapeutic effects that can exceed expectations both in the speed
and depth of their impact.
In this presentation, youll get an experience of the implicit and associational memory networks
that govern our feelings, thoughts, and reactions outside the realm of rational thought. Youll
learn how EMDR and the Adaptive Information Processing model apply not only to trauma, but
also to personality disorders, depression, chronic pain, sexual compulsivity, and other
dysfunctional behaviors and thoughts.
EMDR group protocols will be illustrated that have been used worldwide after both natural and
man-made disasters. It is believed that the treatment of trauma through networks of clinicians
can aid in breaking the cycle of violence worldwide.
Keywords: Webcast
Accuracy Verified: Yes
134. Jones, J. (1995, June). EMDR: A candid view from the psychiatrist's couch. Presentation at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA .
Language: English
Format: Conference
I will attempt to present an overview of the major psychiatric disorders, some medical and neurologic syndromes and general concepts on how I approach diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Our time will include all this and put special focus on psychpharmacology. The nature and scope of this material will be mostly introductory but i will certainly be open to exploring my topic at greater depth depending the needs of the group present. The audience should be any among you who would likea way to begin organizing you approach to pharmacology and the impact that is having on your practice and the use of EMDR. Licensed clinical social workers, marriage and family counselors and psychologists should especially benefit form the discussion. You can expect to hear about major depression and its variants, bipolar disorder, panic disorder and the general anxiety disorders- some coverage of eating disorders, PTSD and adult attention deficit disorder but in less detail. I shall only touch upon schzophrenia and the psychotic disorders unless you show a special interest. The same is true for medical and neurologic diagnosis which have psychotic sequelas. I shall then to proceed to describe the differences and similarities among the antidepressants following that with a less detailed presentation of anit-anxiety agents, anti-psychotics, lithium and its siblings and a few of the "tried-and-true" substances of abuse like alcohol, stimulants, hallucinogens and narcotics. Please forgive me if I draw the line at designer drugs. This is a vast amount of information. I shall empasize general organizing concepts which will help the clinician who would like to understand some of his/her clients better, know better when to make a referral to a psychiatrist, now some of the potentials and limitations of EMDR when your clients are taking medications and/or have a major psychiatric disorder. Do not come to if you wish to set sail on a sea of psychiatric and medical details - 90 minutes just will not suffice! I will depend on you to speak up at any time with your concerns and queries (not to mention contradictions) so we can tailor the moment to the real interests of those present. I will attempt to reserve a substantial amount of time for question, answers, and observations but, if we are lucky, this will be happening throughout the ninety minutes. If we have time left I will explore the subject of "you and your psychiatrist" with both panache and hubris. We have a reputation for not being the most ingratiating of colleagues. I have a number of suggestions from a psychiatrist perspective which could make it easier to manage (sic) your psychiatrist. I hope we will be able to conclude with some high spirits and as they say here in California, a time for sharing and mutual understanding.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
135. Burns, M. (2011). EMDR: A documentary film. Author.
Language: English
Format: Video
This film weaves personal stories into discussion about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing's evolution and remarkable development. Researchers and practitioners from across the world share their reflections about EMDR's early days when founder Francine Shapiro began honing the therapy's methodology as well as how EMDR has transformed their practices in the decades since. Interviews explore the acute need for PTSD and trauma treatment that works efficiently and quickly to address the needs of the millions upon millions in need.
Through interviews with the top EMDR community memebers, this documentary introduces and explains this therapy's components. Combining powerful personal stories from the military and civilian worlds, the film explores the ability of the human brain to re-wire itself when given the opportunity. More and more people every day, are affected by trauma personally. Many more feel the ripple-effects as family, friends, and co-workers of a traumatized person. This project's premise is that the trajectory of lives touched by tragedy and pain need not be predetermined.
Keywords: Interviews Practice Theory
Accuracy Verified: Yes
136. Moses, M. D. (2007). Enhancing attachments: Conjoint couple therapy. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 146-166). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
This chapter addresses the integration of EMDR processing when working with couples in conjoint therapy, specifically targeting the problem of attachment issues. When precautions are taken, applying EMDR with couples produces the potential for a deepand mutually productive experience. EMDRs uniquely rapid processing of interrelated attachment issues lessens the intensity of triggers and can free the couple from their long-standing impasses. Many couples struggle with over- or under-reactivity, generally referred to as triggers. These triggers are typically rooted in early attachment injuries, as well as injuries generated from the couples own relationship. While EMDR is most commonly used in individual treatment, it can also be bridged to the relationship system as a powerful and effective treatment modality for couples. The therapeutic effect of the partners witnessing each others EMDR processing work is often enormous. Done conjointly, each partner becomes increasingly more compassionate and understanding of the other. Ultimately, progress is hastened
enhancing the therapy, and allowing the couple to develop new and more fulfilling connections and attachments. In sequence, this chapter covers the following areas: attachment issues from a Family Systems perspective; therapeutic guidelines for EMDR usage with couples; identification of small t attachment triggers; indications and contraindications; a specific EMDR protocol for work with couples; two detailed couples case illustrations and treatments, focused on problems rooted in attachment issues; and finally, reflection and discussion of the advantages and benefits for integrating EMDR into work with couples.
Keywords: Attachment Attachment Behavior Conjoint Couple Therapy Conjoint Therapy Couples Couples Therapy Marriage Counseling
Accuracy Verified: Yes
137. Scharf, C., Berliner, K., Meyers, M., Schwartberg, N., & Weinshel, M. (2006, September). Enhancing couples therapy with EMDR. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract: Couples often have difficulties changing present day maladaptive patterns of interaction when they are triggered by past traumatic events and/or attachment traumas. This workshop will demonstrate ways in which EMDR can be incorporated into couples therapy in order to interrupt "stuck" cycles of interaction, decrease reactivity. and deepen connections. Our work is informed by a family systems perspective and attachment theory. There will be a theoretical discussion on how we use EMDR in couples work, as well as an experiential exercise illustrating these concepts. Clinician examples and videtape excepts from a year-long course of therapy will illustrate thc ongoing choices the therapist makes in incorporating EMDR in her work with a couple. We will also demonstrate how one partner's witnessing and the other's being witnessed during the processing enhances the healing of old wounds and opens up possibilities for new ways of relating.
Keywords: Couples Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
138. Ginger, S. (2008, Juillet). Enrichir la Gestalt - thérapie par lEMDR [Enriching Gestalt - EMDR therapy]. International Journal of Psychotherapy, 12(2), 70-75.
Language: French
Format: Journal
Je pratique la Gestalt-thérapie depuis plus de trente cinq ans, en séances individuelles, en thérapie de couples et en groupes continus thérapeutiques. Je développe une variante intégrant les dimensions corporelles et émotionnelles, et je me suis intéressé de près aux phénomènes psychobiologiques concomitants, analysés par les recherches des neurosciences contemporaines. Jai dailleurs détaillé ces aspects insuffisamment explicités dans la littérature gestaltiste traditionnelle dans deux ouvrages, traduits aujourdhui en une douzaine de langues. Dès 1985, jai présenté aux États-Unis une conférence sur le thème : « Is Gestalt Therapy "Chemotherapy" Without Knowing It? »2 où je développais lidée que la Gestalt entraînait de rapides modifications biochimiques du fonctionnement du cerveau (nouvelles liaisons synaptiques et modifications des neurotransmetteurs), expliquant en partie son efficacité.
Lorsque japerçus, par hasard, au cours de lun de mes fréquents déplacements aux USA, louvrage de Francine Shapiro : (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Basic Principles, Protocols, ansd Procedures, The Guilford Press, New York, 1995) qui venait de paraître, je lachetai donc sans hésiter, et je le parcourus avidement le soir même.
Au moment où une formation sérieuse à lEMDR sest mise en place en France avec David Servan-Schreiber, je me suis donc formé tout naturellement à cette approche nouvelle qui prenait délibérément en compte lactivité cérébrale (même si elle na pas encore réussi à lanalyser de manière scientifique explicite).
Aujourdhui, il marrive assez fréquemment dintroduire une série de sessions dEMDR dans le suivi dun client notamment lorsquémerge dans lanamnèse un traumatisme psychologique majeur : décès, suicide ou accident grave dun proche (ou du client lui-même), agression, attentat, viol, annonce dune maladie grave, etc., ou inversement, il marrive de prendre des clients en urgence en EMDR, puis de poursuivre et délargir éventuellement la psychothérapie, en Gestalt.
Je voudrais partager avec vous quelques réflexions sur une telle pratique combinée, intégrant ces deux approches.
Je ne mattarderai pas sur la description de la Gestalt-thérapie, puisquil sagit dune méthode maintenant largement connue bien que les styles en soient assez variés. Jai, pour ma part, développé une approche holistique prenant en compte les cinq dimensions principales de lêtre (cf. Le Pentagramme de Ginger). Je voudrais signaler, au passage, que la Gestalt-thérapie est devenue aujourdhui lune des méthodes les plus pratiquées au monde; ainsi, en France, elle a conquis aujourdhui le 2e rang, après la psychanalyse, et bien avant les TCC (thérapies cognitivo-comportementales), les thérapies familiales et les autres thérapies humanistes.
I have been practicing Gestalt therapy for over thirty five years, individual sessions, couples therapy and continuous therapy groups. I develop a variant incorporating body size and emotional, and I am a keen interest in psychobiological concurrent phenomena, analyzed by the research of contemporary neuroscience. I also detailed these aspects - insufficiently explained in the traditional Gestalt literature - in two books, translated now into a dozen languages. Since 1985, I submitted to the U.S. conference on the theme: "Is Gestalt Therapy" Chemotherapy "Without Knowing It? "2 - when I developed the idea that Gestalt led rapid biochemical changes in brain function (new synaptic connections, and changes in neurotransmitters), partly explaining its effectiveness. When I saw by chance during one of my frequent trips to the USA, the work of Francine Shapiro: (Eye Movement Reprocessing and Desensitizer, Basic Principles, Protocols, Procedures ANSD, The Guilford Press, New York 1995) which had just appeared, so I bought it without hesitation, and I eagerly traveled the same evening. Just as serious training in EMDR was introduced in France with David Servan-Schreiber, so I trained quite naturally to this new approach - which deliberately took into account the brain activity (even if it has yet to analyze it scientifically explicit). Today, it happens frequently enough to introduce a series of sessions of EMDR in the monitoring of a client - including lorsqu'émerge in history a major psychological trauma, including death, suicide or serious accident of a closest (or the client itself), assault, attack, rape, announcement of a serious illness, etc.. or vice versa, I sometimes take clients emergency EMDR, then continue and possibly expand psychotherapy, Gestalt. Let me share with you some thoughts on this practice combined, integrating these two approaches. I will not dwell on the description of Gestalt therapy, since it is a method now widely known - although the styles are quite varied. For my part, developed a holistic approach taking into account the five main dimensions of being (cf. The Pentagram Ginger). I should note in passing that Gestalt therapy is now one of the most practiced in the world and in France it has won today the second largest, after psychoanalysis and long before CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), family therapy and other therapies humanists.
Keywords: Gestalt Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
139. Ginger, S. (2007, Juin ). Enrichir la gestalt - Thérapie par lEMDR [Enriching gestalt - EMDR therapy]. Document présenté au Congrès de l' European Association for Psychotherapy Europan (EA), Florence, Italie.
Language: French
Format: Conference
Je pratique la Gestalt-thérapie depuis plus de trente cinq ans, en séances individuelles, en thérapie de couples et en groupes continus thérapeutiques. Je développe une variante intégrant les dimensions corporelles et émotionnelles, et je me suis intéressé de près aux phénomènes psychobiologiques concomitants, analysés par les recherches des neurosciences contemporaines. Jai dailleurs détaillé ces aspects insuffisamment explicités dans la littérature gestaltiste traditionnelle dans deux ouvrages, traduits aujourdhui en une douzaine de langues. Dès 1985, jai présenté aux États-Unis une conférence sur le thème : « Is Gestalt Therapy "Chemotherapy" Without Knowing It? » où je développais lidée que la Gestalt entraînait de rapides modifications biochimiques du fonctionnement du cerveau (nouvelles liaisons synaptiques et modifications des neurotransmetteurs), expliquant en partie son efficacité.
Lorsque japerçus, par hasard, au cours de lun de mes fréquents déplacements aux USA, louvrage de Francine Shapiro : (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Basic Principles, Protocols, ansd Procedures, The Guilford Press, New York, 1995) qui venait de paraître, je lachetai donc sans hésiter, et je le parcourus avidement le soir même. Au moment où une formation sérieuse à lEMDR sest mise en place en France avec David Servan-Schreiber, je me suis donc formé tout naturellement à cette approche nouvelle qui prenait délibérément en compte lactivité cérébrale (même si elle na pas encore réussi à lanalyser de manière scientifique explicite). Aujourdhui, il marrive assez fréquemment dintroduire une série de sessions dEMDR dans le suivi dun client notamment lorsquémerge dans lanamnèse un traumatisme psychologique majeur : décès, suicide ou accident grave dun proche (ou du client lui-même), agression, attentat, viol, annonce dune maladie grave, etc., ou inversement, il marrive de prendre des clients en urgence en EMDR, puis de poursuivre et délargir éventuellement la psychothérapie, en Gestalt.
Je voudrais partager avec vous quelques réflexions sur une telle pratique combinée, intégrant ces deux approches. Je ne mattarderai pas sur la description de la Gestalt-thérapie, puisquil sagit dune méthode maintenant largement connue bien que les styles en soient assez variés. Jai, pour ma part, développé une approche holistique prenant en compte les cinq dimensions principales de lêtre (cf. Le Pentagramme de Ginger). Je voudrais signaler, au passage, que la Gestalt-thérapie est devenue aujourdhui lune des méthodes les plus pratiquées au monde ; ainsi, en France, elle a conquis aujourdhui le 2e rang, après la psychanalyse, et bien avant les TCC (thérapies cognitivo-comportementales), les thérapies familiales et les autres thérapies humanist.
I have been practicing Gestalt therapy for over thirty five years, individual sessions, couples therapy and continuous therapy groups. I develop a variant incorporating body size and emotional, and I am a keen interest in psychobiological concurrent phenomena, analyzed by the research of contemporary neuroscience. I also detailed these aspects - insufficiently explained in the traditional Gestalt literature - in two books, translated now into a dozen languages. Since 1985, I submitted to the U.S. conference on the theme: "Is Gestalt Therapy" Chemotherapy "Without Knowing It? "- Where I developed the idea that Gestalt led rapid biochemical changes in brain function (new synaptic connections and changes in neurotransmitters), partly explaining its effectiveness.
When I saw by chance during one of my frequent trips to the USA, the work of Francine Shapiro: (Eye Movement Reprocessing and Desensitizer, Basic Principles, Protocols, Procedures ANSD, The Guilford Press, New York 1995) which had just appeared, so I bought it without hesitation, and I eagerly traveled the same evening. Just as serious training in EMDR was introduced in France with David Servan-Schreiber, so I trained quite naturally to this new approach - which deliberately took into account the brain activity (even if it has yet to analyze it scientifically explicit). Today, it happens frequently enough to introduce a series of sessions of EMDR in the monitoring of a client - including lorsqu'émerge in history a major psychological trauma, including death, suicide or serious accident of a closest (or the client itself), assault, attack, rape, announcement of a serious illness, etc.. or vice versa, I sometimes take clients emergency EMDR, then continue and possibly expand psychotherapy, Gestalt.
Let me share with you some thoughts on this practice combined, integrating these two approaches. I will not dwell on the description of Gestalt therapy, since it is a method now widely known - although the styles are quite varied. For my part, developed a holistic approach taking into account the five main dimensions of being (cf. The Pentagram Ginger). I should note in passing that Gestalt therapy is now one of the most practiced in the world and in France it has won today the second largest, after psychoanalysis and long before CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), family therapy and other therapies humanist.
Keywords: Gestalt Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
140. Morris-Smith, J. (2011, June). The European EMDR shrinking protocol for children and adolesence: Development, theoretical considerations and clinical insights. Pre-conference presentation at the 12th European Conference on Traumatic Stress (ECOTS), Vienna, Austria.
Language: English
Format: Conference
The development of the Shrinking Protocol and its application has given rise to many interesting questions relating to the nature of trauma in childhood including whether pre-verbal trauma exists and is treatable; what constitutes a trauma in childhood; how does attachment and family dynamics affect EMDR therapy; what is dissociation in childhood and how can it be managed in EMDR therapy; what are the effects of chronic long-term traumatisation in early childhood and how soon can these be addressed. Also interesting questions have included how does it get integrated with other therapeutic modes and when to start. Further interesting discoveries have also been made when applying it to special groups, for example children with ASD and other developmental and medical conditions. EMDR therapy for children and adolescents is now being found to have very wide-ranging applications.
This workshop will describe the evolution of the Shrinking Protocol which was based on the earlier work of Tinker & Wilson (1999) and demonstrate some of its different applications and uses with different conditions which will be illustrated with video clips. It also will demonstrate how EMDR therapy has led to new insights into the nature of traumatisation in childhood and suggest potential new directions for research and therapy.
Keywords: Adolescents Children Shrinking Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
141. Gezondheidsraad (2011, June). Executive summary. In Gezondheidsraad Behandeling van de gevolgen van kindermishandeling (pp. 15-20). Den Haag: Gezondheidsraad.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Compiled at the request of the Aan de staatssecretaris van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, [The The Secretary of State for Health, Welfare and Sport] requested Gezondheidsraad [the Health Council of the Netherlands] compile this 130 page national report on child abuse. This report includes EMDR as a major tool for the treatment of abuse children. The text is in Dutch except for the "Executive Summary" which is in English. Abstract: Request for advice:
Child abuse has always been with us and it takes many different forms. It is estimated
that more than 100,000 children are abused in the Netherlands each year. In recent years, the government has taken strong measures to improve the prevention,
detection, and reporting of child abuse. Given the lack of clarity concerning
the available treatment options for juvenile and adult victims of child
abuse, the Minister for Youth and Family has requested the Health Councils
advice on this matter. He asked for a summary of the current level of knowledge
regarding treatment of the effects of child abuse, and an explanation of the nature
of these effects. He further requested an indication of the care requirement, and
recommendations on how the care for victims can be improved.
Keywords: Abuse Children Guidelines
Accuracy Verified: Yes
142. Scroppo, F. (2001, December). Extreme stress. Chatelaine Magazine for Canadian Women, 74(12).
Language: English
Format: Magazine
Most of us have suffered bouts of severe stress triggered by work or family troubles. At other times, the anxiety stems from trauma such as physical abuse, a serious car accident or witnessing the World Trade Center tragedy. In the past, professionals advised people with acute stress and post-traumatic stress disorder to get long-term counselling. These days, more and more therapists are turning to a much shorter form of therapy: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
Keywords: Stress
Accuracy Verified: Yes
143. Fernandez, I. [2008]. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Progetto TiAMA [Project TiAMA].
Language: Italian
Format: Other
EMDR è un acronimo per Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (Desensibilizzazione e Rielaborazione
attraverso i Movimenti Oculari). E' un metodo clinico innovativo che ha aiutato con successo ormai più di un milione di
individui reduci da eventi traumatici (abuso sessuale, violenza in famiglia, guerra, crimini) ma anche soggetti con altri
disturbi psicologici (depressione, dipendenze, fobie e aspetti legati all'auto stima).
EMDR is an acronym for Eye Movement desensitization and reprocessing (desensitization and reprocessing eye movements). It 'an innovative clinical method that has already successfully helped over a million people emerging from traumatic events (sexual abuse, family violence, war crimes), but also those with other psychological disorders (depression, addictions, phobias and issues self esteem).
Accuracy Verified: Yes
144. Ali, M. W., & Rana, M. H. (2008, June). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in patients of PTSD following earthquake 2005, Pakistan. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, London, England.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Objective: The purpose of the study is to asses the usefulness of EMDR in patients of PTSD who survived the
October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Background: On October the 8th an earthquake of 7.6 on rector scale
struck Kashmir and Northwest of Pakistan leaving millions injured and more than 80,000 dead. A survey of the
affected areas has shown a high prevalence of PTSD amongst the survivors. A selected series of patients with the
diagnosis of PTSD from amongst the survivors is enrolled for EMDR at CTRPI. The study is based on their response
to this intervention. Design and Settings: The study involves an ongoing compilation of clinical data and the study
of therapeutic responses to various interventions including EMDR, at a tertiary mental health facility and Centre
for Trauma Research and Psychosocial Interventions (CTRPI), Rawalpindi /Islamabad, Pakistan. This mental health
facility is the tertiary care referral point for patients from metal health relief units located allover in earthquake
affected areas of Azad Kashmir and Northwest of Pakistan. Method: Earthquake survivors who develop
psychosocial sequelae referred to CTRPI from Kashmir, who go on to fulfill the criteria of Post-traumatic Stress
Disorder according to ICD-10 are registered for further studies and appropriate interventions. A select group who
give informed consent for EMDR are then included for detailed evaluation and follow up. Sessions are conducted
in eight phases from manuals by therapists who are trained till level 2 in the method. Pre- treatment assessment
is done by an independent assessor for scores on Impact of Event Scale and Global Assessment of Functioning
(GAF). The post treatment assessment is conducted 1 week after the treatment with the same procedures as at
pretreatment. In session Scoring of subjective unit of distress is also recorded serially. According to the degree of
improvement and severity of illness, sessions of EMDR are carried out with the duration of about 60 to 90
minutes each session and with a minimum of 6 sessions using the bilateral stimulation. The authors plan to
compile their work with ten patients who fulfill the prerequisites of the study in process. Results: The work has
been done so far on three clients which suggest that EMDR is effective in reducing the scores of IES back to
normal and there is marked difference in the GAF level after the said intervention. It has a dramatic effect on
within-session SUD levels .Furthermore, at a qualitative level it is observed that involvement of other family
members in the therapeutic process may improve treatment adherence. Conclusions: Ongoing results of this
study tend to suggest that the EMDR is an effective intervention for patients of PTSD following a natural disaster
like an earth quake. However, the results drawn cannot be generalized on account of their small count.
Keywords: Earthquake Pakistan Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
Accuracy Verified: Yes
145. Fannin, J. L. (1998, February). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of anxiety as it pertains to work-related issues. Walden University, Minneapolis, MN. AAT 9804439.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect Eye Movement Densitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has as a treatment protocol on work-related stressors. Today's faster pace, the growing perception of job insecurity, greater demands on the job, and inability to juggle family and work responsibilities has left millions of Americans to experience the debilitating effects of anxiety and stress. Many people lack the knowledge, resources, and strategies to effectively deal with such problems. The issue of stressors in work-related situations is costly and negatively impacts many individuals, organizations, and families. EMDR was found to be both effective and efficient in removing or substantially decreasing anxiety associated with work-related stressors and increase the association to positive cognitions. The data indicated both statistical and clinical improvement in all four areas of measure: subjective units of disturbance (SUD), verification of cognition (VOC), emotional state, and trait anxiety, after EMDR had been administered to members of the experimental group. This study found no statistical significance with these measures as they pertain to the control group. The three null hypotheses were rejected. Several different measures were employed to evaluate the statistical significance of the data produced by this study. Process measures of the verification of cognition (VOC) and subjective units of disturbance (SUD) scales were evaluated through paired sample t-tests. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to evaluate the state and trait anxiety measures. Interactional analysis tested the hypotheses for interaction using repeated measures ANOVA with method and time. Pearson's product moment correlation tested for the association between two variables. Further study is recommended in both the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the EMDR protocol. Such research could lead to more effective and cost-efficient therapy for a wide range of problems affecting the individual, family, and the organization. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering. 58(8-B), Feb 1998, pp. 4512.
Keywords: Anxiety Empirical Study Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy Occupational Stress Stress Management Treatment Outcome/Clinical Trial Workplace Stress
Accuracy Verified: Yes
146. Shapiro, F., & Maxfield, L. (2001). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Clinical implications of an integrated psychotherapy treatment. Directions in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, 11(6), 59-71.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Directions in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: A collection of 12 lessons, this volume covers a wide range of concerns in mental health counseling. The lessons, which may be applied toward continuing education credits, are: (1) "Perspectives on the Essentials of Clinical Supervision" (Stephen A. Anderson); (2) "Adlerian Group Psychotherapy: A Brief Therapy Approach" (Manford A. Sonstegard, James Robert Bitter, Pari Peggy Pelonis-Peneros, and William G. Nicholl); (3) "Substance Abuse Treatment for Pregnant and Parenting Women" (Rivka Greenberg, Judith Fry McComish, and Jennifer Kent-Bryant); (4) "Family Therapy for with Lesbians and Gay Men" (Maeve Malley and Fiona Tasker); (5) "Psychological and Cognitive Correlates of Coping by Patients with Multiple Sclerosis" (William W. Beatty and Brian T. Maynard); (6) "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Clinical Implications of an Integrated Psychotherapy Treatment" (Francine Shapiro and Louise Maxfield); (7) "Counseling Strategies with Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse" (Kathleen M. Palm and Victoria M. Follete); (8) "Identifying and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder" (Dean McKay); (9) "Masochistic Phenomena Reconceptualized as a Response to Trauma: Recovery and Treatment" (Elizabeth Howell); (10) "Counseling Poor, Abused, and Neglected Children in Fair Society" (Brenda Geiger); (11) "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Assessing Symptoms and Activity Levels for Treatment" (Constance W. Van der Eb and Leonard A. Jason); (12) "The Limitations of the DSM-IV as a Diagnostic Tool" (G. J. Tucker); and (Special Report) Jealousy, Communication, and Attachment Style (Laura K. Guerrero). Each lesson contains references. (ERIC ED464 291)
Keywords: Integrative Psychotherapy Approach
Accuracy Verified: Yes
147. Field, A., & Cottrell, D. (2011, November). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as a therapeutic intervention for traumatized children and adolescents: A systematic review of the evidence for family therapists. Journal of Family Therapy, 33(4), 374-388. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6427.2011.00548.x.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a relatively new form of psychotherapy for post-traumatic symptoms of relevance to systemic therapists. The literature available on individual EMDR in traumatized children is reviewed in this article. A sample of eight studies was examined, consisting of three controlled trials, two uncontrolled studies and three case reports or series. The controlled trials compared EMDR with waiting list controls or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The study samples were small and their methodological quality variable. In all the studies, the results suggested a positive effect for EMDR but did not appear superior to CBT. It is therefore possible that systemic interventions may be improved by the integration of EMDR and family therapy with children and adolescents.
Keywords: Adolescents Children Family and Systemic Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
148. Rose, B. K. (2004). Eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR): A treatment protocol for addicted inmates with traumatic histories. Carlos Albizu University, Miami, FL. AAT 3102092.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract: S
ubstance Abuse is the use and abuse of mood and mind altering substances often having undesired effects on the lives of those addicted, and having a negative impact on the lives of others. Those addicted may expose themselves and others to physical and psychological harm; may create forensic problems; cause disintegration of the family, and problematic interpersonal relationships. Underlying reasons for addictive behavior include but are not limited to: genetic predisposition, psychosocial involvement, psychobiological complications, developmental conditions, and pre-existing psychological and environmental events. Some deficits found in those addicted include: poor coping skills, inability to problem solve, inability to function in difficult situations, and may use cognitive avoidance as a means of coping with life. The idea that children might be negatively impacted by exposure to substance abuse using parents is not a new revelation. However, the degree of damage done to these children is severe, and more is being learned about the severity of that damage. Children often are enmeshed with their dysfunctional families, and many problems arise involving their inability to maintain intimate relationships with others. Attachment issues may develop in infancy and early stages of maturation, and adversely affect children's ability to function as adults. Abusive pasts and traumatic incidents often may hinder the psychological growth and maturity of those who have experienced trauma and abuse.Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a fairly new concept of treatment. It was first designed to address therapy with those who had been exposed to trauma. However, over the past 22 years since its inception, it has been adapted to treat many other types of Axis I disorders. It has been determined that EMDR is useful in addressing substance abuse and other Axis I diagnoses, especially PTSD. Hiller, Knight, and Simpson completed a study with 161 persons who resided at a residential halfway house for newly released inmates. Their results found: 80% of the sample of had psychological problems; 72% had significant drug abuse problems; 58% had concurrent psychopathology and drug abuse problems. Research indicates prison confinement is increasing, and the idea of therapy in the forensic setting is gaining in popularity. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation is to design a substance abuse program to address the difficulties of substance abuse treatment for the dual diagnosed clients. The data collected from this program will help provide much needed information in order to further research and increase our understanding of the needs of this underserved population. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Comorbidity Drug Abuse Prison Inmates Psychiatric Disorders Stressors Survivors Therapeutic Community
Accuracy Verified: Yes
149. Keeler, G. (1994, May 30). The eyes have it: Eye therapy offers hope for people haunted by traumatic events. Fresno, CA: The Fresno Bee, Home, Life, G1.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Then marriage and family counselor Nancy Stark suggested Elaine try a new procedure called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Keywords: Fresno General Nancy Stark Overview
Accuracy Verified: Yes
150. Zampieri, M. A. J. (2007, Novembro). Família e co-dedependência [Family and co-dependency]. Apresentação no I Congresso Ibero-Americano de EMDR, Brasilia, Brasil .
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Apresentação de aplicação do EMDR
em terapia de casais, famílias e sistemas no
tratamento em contextos que apresentem padrões
de co-dependência. A autora se apóia na descrição
de manifestações sistêmicas da co-dependência
já publicada e demonstra como a intervenção com
EMDR pode ser empregada individualmente e
adaptada em grupo. Apresentam-se exemplos de
casos em tratamento de abuso de substâncias na
co-dependência familiar e na co-dependência
sócio-institucional no acompanhamento de
profissionais do Conselho Tutelar. Espera-se que
ao término da atividade o participante formado
em EMDR seja capaz de identificar manifestações
da co-dependência, nomear tais princípios num
plano de intervenção com uso do EMDR na família
ou na instituição.
Submission of application of EMDR in couples therapy, family systems and the treatment in environments that present standards co-dependency. The author relies on the description systemic manifestations of codependency already published and demonstrates how the intervention EMDR can be used individually and adapted group. There are examples of cases of substance abuse treatment in
family co-dependency and codependency
socio-institutional follow-up professionals from the Guardianship Council. It is expected that the end of the activity the participant made in EMDR is able to identify events of co-dependency, appoint such principles in a intervention plan with the use of EMDR in the family or institution.
Keywords: Co-Dependency Family
Accuracy Verified: Yes
151. Monteiro, A. M. (2012, Novembro). A família que habito, a Família que me habita: Estados de ego e transgeracionalidade no EMDR [The family I live, the family that lives in me: The ego and transgenerality in EMDR]. Apresentação no II Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Nesta oficina devemos trabalhar a dimensão transgeracional da composição dos Estados de Ego e discutir possíveis implicações para teoria e prática do EMDR, destacando-se os desafios de constituição do sujeito, composição de cognições existenciais e ajustes do protocolo clássico para abordagem dessa complexidade interior do indivíduo com composição egóica múltipla. Palavras-chave: estados de ego; crenças existenciais; constituição do sujeito; protocolo clássico.
In this workshop we work transgenerational dimension to the composition of Ego States and possible implications for theory and practice of EMDR, highlighting the challenges of subject constitution, composition and existential cognitions adjustments classic protocol to address this complexity within the individual composition with multiple ego.
Keywords: Ego States Existential Beliefs Constitution of the Subject Standard Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
152. Affonso, S. D. S. (2012, Novembro). Família vítima de sequestro em cativeiro: Intervenção com EMDR e protocolo grupal integrativo como prevenção do transtorno de estresse pós-traumático [Family kidnap victim in captivity: Intervention with EMDR protocol and group integrative prevention of disorder like post-traumatic stress]. In EMDR em traumas. Apresentação no II Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Introdução: Caso de sequestro familiar onde pai e dois filhos pequenos ficaram em cativeiro por 19 horas. Mãe teve que acompanhar os outros assaltantes durante toda a ação criminosa sob ameaça de morte. Objetivo: Reestruturação da dinâmica familiar pós-trauma de sequestro por meio da aplicação do EMDR, Grupal (PGI) e sistêmico familiar como recurso teórico e prático da resolução do trauma. Justificativa: Aplicação do EMDR como instrumento eficaz e mediador em situações de sequestro familiar, minimizando suas consequências. Empoderar a família para uma reorganização segura reincorporando as atividades do cotidiano e as biopsicossociais. Os componentes desta família foram vítimas de violência urbana com abusos emocionais físicos e ameaças de morte constantes. Metodologia: Foram realizado sete atendimentos. O primeiro com o Protocolo Grupal Integrativo (Suds e Voc - projeção do futuro com 03 membros da família) e o restante com o EMDR individual (CN-CP-Voc-E-S-Suds) e Sistêmico Familiar. Período de julho a novembro de 2011 em consultório particular na região de São Paulo. Conclusão: ao término dos atendimentos foi possível observar a capacidade de reorganização da dinâmica familiar com a resolução dos traumas por meio da aplicação do EMDR. Possibilitando o retorno gradativo dos filhos às atividades diárias e escolares, com o término dos pesadelos e comportamentos fisiológicos decorrentes do trauma sofrido, confirmando, assim, a potencialidade que o EMDR individual, grupal fortalecem e recuperam a reestruturação familiar pós-trauma em sequestro.
Introduction: Case of kidnapping family where father and two small children were in captivity for 19 hours. Mother had to follow the other robbers throughout the criminal action under threat of death. Objective: Restructuring family dynamics posttraumatic sequestration through the application of EMDR Group (PGI) and systemic family as a resource of theoretical and practical resolution of trauma. Rationale: Application of EMDR as an effective tool and mediator in situations of family abduction, minimizing their consequences. Empower the family to secure a reorganization reincorporating everyday activities and biopsychosocial. The components of this family were victims of urban violence with physical and emotional abuse constant death threats. Methods: We conducted seven sessions. The first Protocol to the Integrative Group (Suds and Voc - projection of the future with 03 family members) and the rest with the individual EMDR (CN-CP-You-ES-Suds) and Systemic Family. From July to November 2011 in private practice in the region of São Paulo. Conclusion: At the end of the visits was possible to observe the ability of reorganization of family dynamics with the resolution of trauma through the application of EMDR. Allowing the gradual return of the children to their daily activities and school, with the end of nightmares and physiological behaviors resulting from trauma, thereby confirming the potential that the EMDR individual, group and strengthen the family restructuring recover post-trauma in kidnapping.
Keywords: Family Restructuring Trauma Victims
Accuracy Verified: Yes
153. Greenwald, R. (1994). Family interventions to enhance child EMDR treatment. EMDR Network Newsletter, 4(2), 7-8.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Extensive clinical data suggest that
EMDR can be quite rapid and effective
with children under certain conditions
(Greenwald, in press-a, in
press-b). Desirable therapist qualities
include familiarity with an adequate
repertoire of child-oriented
EMDR techniques, as well as the ability
to develop rapport and enlist the
child's coop eration and perseverance.
Child qualities conducive to successful,
brief treatment include a relatively
limited trauma history, as well
as parental support for healing. This
paper will describe two simple family
interventions which can help to mobilize
parental support for the child's
Keywords: Children Family Interventions
Accuracy Verified: Yes
154. Kaslow, F. W. (2007). Family systems theories and therapeutic applications: A contextual overview. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 35-75). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a kaleidoscopic overview of the field of family therapy/psychology within which the ensuing chapters can be better understood. To accomplish this massive task within the space limits set, the same format has been followed in the summarization of each of the main theoretical schools. Common key dimensions found in almost all theories are highlighted. The dimensions covered are a synopsis of the theory's basic structure and goals, the techniques and process of each school of therapy, its perceived treatment applicability, and process and/or outcome research on the methodology. Wherever possible, chapters in the book are alluded to in which the author selectively integrates a particular theoretical perspective and treatment approach with his or her Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) clinical work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Family Systems Theory Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
155. Taylor, R. J. (2002, September). Family unification with reactive attachment disorder: A brief treatment. Contemporary Family Therapy, 24(3), 475-481. doi:10.1023/A:1019867317042.
Language: English
Format: Journal
This is a case study of a family with a child (age eight) with reactive attachment disorder and the subsequent individual and family therapy. Treatment of choice for the child was Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and supportive educational counseling for the parents and family. Qualitative evaluation of the process demonstrated that the parents observed an instant change in the child's attitude. The child reported that she felt better about family, school, and truthfulness, and stated about the therapy: It opened a window for me. A 12-month evaluation demonstrated continued positive effects.
Keywords: Anxiety Attachment Disorder Children Educational Counseling Family Family Therapy Family Unification Individual Psychotherapy Parent Child Relations RAD Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
156. Taylor, R. J. (2003, September). Family unifications with reactive attachment disorder: Children A brief treatment approach. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Denver, CO.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This presentation will discuss the symptomology of reactive attachment disorder in children and the effects on the family. In addition, the presentation will focus on the treatment mileau of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and how it may be used in the treatment of reactive attachment disorder in children. The discussion also will include a case study of a family with a child age 8 with reactive attachment disorder and the subsequent individual and family therapy. Treatment of choice was EMDR for the child and supportive therapy for the parents. Qualitative evaluation of the process demonstrated that the parents observed an instant changing in the child's attitude. The child reported that she felt better about herself, family, school, and truthfulness. Her statement about the therapy: "It opened a windown for me." In relation to outcomes, a 12 and 24-month evaulation demonstrated continued positive effects. The importance of working with the family in understanding the dynamics of reactive attachement disorder and how improvement occurs will be discussed. Objectives of the session will be to give clinical information to practitioners about children with reactive attachment disorder, how this disorder affects the family, and possible therapeutic intervention techniques to open a diaglogue that will lead to understanding children who are in treatment.
Keywords: Attachment Disorders Educational Counseling Family Therapy Family Unification Individual Psychotherapy Parent Child Relations RAD Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
157. Kim, K. I. (2003, January). Family violence: Psychiatric aspects. Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association, 42(1), 5-13.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Objective: Psychiatrists have recently paid attention to family violence victims, possibly due to the increase of the case, difficulty in case finding and management, and unfavorable treatment outcome. In this review article, the author introduced knowledge and clinical guideline for desirable approach. Methods: This article was from review of articles and the author's 20 years clinical experience at the victim clinic. Results: Incidence of family violence in Korea is three fold higher than that of the United States and China. Batterers' personality and behavior pattern, their characteristic action of violence, victims' victimization process, victims' emotional and cognitive response, characteristics of victims' clinical behavior, desirable attitude of psychiatrists, and the 7 stage approach by the author were introduced. [KoreaMed]
Keywords: Batterers Domestic Violence Family Violence
Accuracy Verified: Yes
158. Phillips, M. (2000). Finding the energy to heal: How EMDR, hypnosis, TFT, imagery, and body-focused therapy can help restore mindbody health. (1st ed.) New York: Norton.
Language: English
Format: Book
I have found that more traditional models of psychological healing, such as self-object relations, ego psychology, cognitive behaviorism, and developmental psychology, along with theories of trauma, dissociation, and attachment, are invaluable in helping to identify the general patterns of disharmony that can activate illness. Once my clients and I have sketched the broad outlines of where and how their pathways to healing may be blocked, then we can use the relatively more precise implements of hypnosis, EMDR, imagery, and body-focused therapies to reopen them again. The basic strategy illustrated throughout this book, then, is one of combining traditional psychological models for assessment with special tools to activate energy shifts that can rebalance the mindbody system.Three kinds of common stressors associated with problematic health provide the framework for this book: (1) General stress-related symptoms; (2) Psychophysiological symptoms that result from posttraumatic stress; (3) Stress connected with organic conditions. [Adapted from Text, pp. xiv, xv] [Pilots]
Keywords: Body Psychotherapy Cognitive Therapy Ego State Therapy Hypnotherapy Stressors Survivors TFT: Thought Field Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
159. Maccio, E., Monaco, A., & Evans, D. (2001, June). Fix my kid!: Using EMDR with adolescents with conduct problems within a family therapy context. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Austin, TX.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will be able to: 1) recognize adolescent clinical presentations; 2) incorporate EMDR into family therapy; 3) engage/motivate resistant youth; 4) identify stressors; 5) differentiate various non-responses; and 6) learn new methods of approaching the treatment protocol.
Keywords: Adolescents Conduct Disorders
Accuracy Verified: Yes
160. Browning, C. (1999). Flotar hacia atrás y flotar hacia delante: Técnicas para ligar el pasado, Presente y futuro [Floatback and Float Forward: Techniques for the Tie Past, Present and Future]. Presentation at EMDRIA Latinoamericana.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
El protocolo estándar de EMDR requiere enfocar los orígenes de la perturbación, los gatillos del presente y crear un patrón de conductas adecuadas para el futuro (Shapiro). Algunos pacientes, sin embargo pueden tener dificultades para conectar su problema actual con acontecimientos del pasado. Así también, otros pacientes pueden tener dificultades para crear patrones positivos para el futuro, especialmente si ensayar conductas nuevas los pone ansiosos. Para estos problemas las técnicas de "Flotar hacia atrás" y "Flotar hacia delante" desarrolladas por William Zangwill Ph. D., entrenador del Instituto EMDR, son métodos efectivos para ligar el pasado, presente y futuro en un ámbito terapéutico y proveen al terapeuta de instrumentos para abordar eficientemente ambos temas.
Abordar recuerdos tempranos asociados con el material perturbador es fundamental para EMDR. Shapiro dice que ayudar al paciente a encontrar un recuerdo temprano "debe ser una de las primeras opciones que debe considerar al terapeuta..." (Shapiro, 1995). La Técnica de Flotar hacia atrás es un camino eficiente y poderoso para llegar a esta meta, permitiendo al terapeuta asistir al paciente a llevar a cabo sus propias asociaciones con acontecimientos del pasado. Su uso es muy apropiado cuando el terapeuta sospecha que una perturbación que el paciente experimenta en el presente, tiene sus raíces en experiencias del pasado; especialmente cuando preguntas como "Cuál es su recuerdo más temprano en relación a lo que se siente ahora? no ha tenido éxito en ayudar al paciente a conectar con eventos del pasado. También cuando un paciente presenta un tema o experiencia recurrente, la Técnica de Flotar hacia Atrás es ideal para ayudar al paciente a identificar un target para el reprocesamiento. Muchos pacientes se ponen en contacto con los problemas actuales con relativa facilidad. Por ejemplo, una paciente que se queja que se siente abandonada cuando su marido se va de viaje de negocios, probablemente pueda recordar sus problemas actuales con facilidad. Entonces el terapeuta puede aplicar la Técnica de Flotar hacia Atrás para ayudarle a la paciente a recordar un acontecimiento del pasado con rapidez y eficiencia.
Para usar la Técnica de Flotar hacia Atrás, arme el protocolo con el problema actual, utilizando los pasos que figuran en el Manual de Entrenamiento del Nivel I y del Nivel II (Shapiro, 1994) incluyendo la imagen, la cognición negativa (CN), la cognición positiva (CP), la validación de la cognición (VoC), emociones, Unidad Subjetiva de Perturbación (SUD) y sensación corporal. Sin embargo, no incide todavía el procesamiento (es decir, movimientos oculares u otra estimulación). En vez de eso, diga a su paciente: "Fíjese en la imagen de... y esas palabras (repita la imagen perturbadora del paciente y su cognición negativa), fíjese que emociones le vienen y donde las siente en el cuerpo. Ahora cierre los ojos y deje que su mente flote hacia atrás a un período anterior en su vida, no busque, simplemente deje que su mente flote a una época donde usted pensaba cosas similares... (repita las emociones que dijo el paciente) en ...(repita los lugares del cuerpo donde el paciente sintió las sensaciones). Cuando esté listo abra los ojos y dígame lo primero que le viene a la mente".
Utilice esta experiencia más temprana como target, completando todos los items del protocolo: imagen, CN, CP, VoC, emociones, SUD y ubicación de las sensaciones corporales y comience a procesar con movimientos oculares u otro estímulo bilateral. Una vez que se ha procesado este material, vuelva al target original del material actual. Muy a menudo se generaliza el trabajo realizado sobre el material más temprano y ya no hace falta procesar el material actual.
Es importante usar términos generales cuando se le dan al paciente las instrucciones de la Técnica de Flotar hacia Atrás, es decir, pedir un recuerdo temprano y no el más temprano. Hay varias razones que avalan esto. Primero, muchas veces es el peor recuerdo y no el primero que funciona como el mejor target para el reprocesamiento,. Además, usar términos generales es una ayuda para los pacientes más compulsivos y perfeccionistas que de otra manera estarían demasiado preocupados en no equivocarse y encontrar exactamente la primera asociación. Finalmente, la flexibilidad que permite la utilización de términos generales más que términos específicos aumenta la posibilidad de éxito del paciente de conectarse con el pasado que es la meta de esta técnica.
El rasgo esencial de la Técnica de Flotar hacia Atrás es usar las preguntas del protocolo para conectar los problemas del presente con eventos del pasado. Pasar las preguntas como fueron desarrolladas por Shapiro es un potente método para ayudar a los pacientes a sintonizar con todos los aspectos de su experiencia del problema. El material perturbador se vuelve más vívido y actual para el paciente y posibilita recordar experiencias similares. Se supone, como hipótesis, que al haber desarrollado el protocolo con todas las preguntas sobre el problema actual, estimula la red neuronal de asociaciones y posibilita casi sin esfuerzo el "flotar hacia atrás" a asociaciones tempranas.
Además, el vínculo paciente-terapeuta es realzado porque el terapeuta valida la experiencia del paciente (la perturbación actual) al empezar el trabajo desde el punto en el que se encuentra el paciente. Las asociaciones son del paciente, eliminando el tema de la resistencia a cualquier idea o interpretación introducida por el terapeuta. El paciente se da cuenta vivencialmente de la conexión del presente con el pasado usando la Técnica de Flotar hacia Atrás, pudiendo esquivar la evitación y otras defensas.
Mientras que la Técnica de Flotar hacia Atrás posibilita muy a menudo que los pacientes vean y sientan la conexión entre el problema actual y los eventos pasados, la Técnica de Flotar hacia delante permite que el paciente identifique y reprocese la ansiedad anticipatoria y desarrolle patrones positivos para el futuro. Es un método que puede ser utilizado en cualquier momento del proceso terapéutico para solucionar bloqueos, renuencias y en algunos casos, resistencias o temas de beneficios secundarios o pérdidas. Es especialmente útil para trabajar con el miedo del paciente a hacer EMDR.
Para ponerlo en práctica, primero pida al paciente que imagine lo peor que le puede pasar si hace "X" (por ej. probar una nueva conducta, testear una nueva habilidad, empezar una experiencia nueva). ¿Qué es lo peor que le puede pasar si hace EMDR? Que es lo peor que le puede pasar si soluciona este problema? ¿Qué es lo peor que le puede pasar si le pone límites a su jefe respecto a la cantidad de trabajo que espera que usted haga? El paciente puede necesitar ayuda para identificar la peor escena. Algunas sugerencias incluyen el miedo a perder el control de sus emociones, el miedo a perder el control de sus funciones corporales como el control de esfínteres, miedo a tener un ataque de pánico, y no poder manejar su vida emocional entre las sesiones.
Una vez que el paciente ha identificado el incidente, pregunte por la peor parte de esa escena y utilícelo como el target de EMDR, armando el protocolo con las preguntas estándar, pero con una leve modificación: pregunte por la imagen que representa la peor parte del peor incidente, por ej. "Cuando usted ve una imagen de si mismo/a haciendo......, que es lo peor que puede pasar?"
Después siga con el resto de las preguntas estándar, es decir, CN, CP, VoC, emociones, SUD, y ubicación de la sensación corporal. Estimule el procesamiento del paciente con movimientos oculares u otro estímulo bilateral.
Si el desarrollo de la peor escena del paciente le provoca un miedo racional, puede que se tengan que tomar medidas prácticas para solucionar estas preocupaciones. Por ejemplo, usando la técnica de flotar hacia delante con un chico de 13 años que estaba en un hogar adoptivo transitorio, la peor escena evocada por él fue: "Me van a devolver al Hogar si esta adopción no resulta". Durante el procesamiento, el SUD se redujo de 8 a 3 con bastante rapidez pero de ahí no bajaba. El paciente comentó que no bajaba porque esta "peor escena" podría sucederle realmente y le había sucedido en el pasado. Paramos los movimientos oculares, charlamos un rato y elaboramos un plan para: a) una sesión con sus padres adoptivos para hablar sobre la permanencia de la adopción y b) una llamada en conferencia a su asesor legal para clarificar sus derechos y opciones. Volviendo al target después de esto, le fue posible reducir el SUD a 1 con unos pocos sets de movimientos oculares.
Al utilizar la Técnica de Flotar hacia delante para reprocesar la peor escena, el paciente tiene una oportunidad para resolver la ansiedad anticipatoria. Durante la instalación de la cognición positiva, el paciente está creando patrones positivos para acciones en el futuro. Una mujer cuyo hermano fue verbalmente abusivo con ella en la infancia y en la actualidad la intimidaba, armó una "peor escena" con: "Va a ser igualmente abusivo cuando lo vea la próxima vez". La paciente había hecho mucho EMDR, reprocesando incidentes de la infancia relacionados con el abuso verbal del hermano. Sin embargo, sin un referente positivo vivencial, seguía ansiosa cada vez que interactuaba con él. Pidiéndole que "flote hacia delante" y usando EMDR sobre una de las peores escenas, alivió su ansiedad respecto a una fiesta familiar que tenía pendiente. Instalando una CP de "Ahora estoy más fuerte" le permitió crear una imagen de si misma manejando a su hermano con humor y sintiéndose segura.
A aplicar las Técnicas de Flotar hacia Atrás y hacia Delante y ocuparse así del pasado, presente y futuro, el terapeuta de EMDR puede sanar mejor a su paciente. Es más, las Técnicas de Flotar hacia Atrás y hacia Delante están basadas en EMDR. Las dos incorporan las preguntas del protocolo standard y le dan al terapeuta y al paciente la oportunidad de manejarse más fluidamente con dicho protocolo.
EMDR standard protocol requires a focus of the origins of the disturbance, the triggers of this and create a pattern of behaviors appropriate to the future (Shapiro). Some patients, however, may have difficulty connecting the current problem with past events. Also, other patients may have difficulty creating positive patterns for the future, especially if you try new behaviors makes them anxious. For these problems the techniques of "float back" and "Float forward" developed by William Zangwill Ph.D., EMDR Institute trainer, are effective methods to link the past, present and future in a therapeutic area and provide the therapist tools to effectively address both issues.
Addressing early memories associated with foreign material is essential to EMDR. Shapiro said that helping the patient to find early memory "must be one of the first options to consider when therapist ..." (Shapiro, 1995). Floating Technique back is a powerful and efficient way to reach this goal, allowing the therapist to assist the patient to carry out their own associations with past events. Its use is most appropriate when the clinician suspects that a disturbance that the patient is experiencing at present, is rooted in past experiences, especially when questions like "What is your earliest memory in relation to what you feel now? Not been successful in helping patients to connect with past events. Also when a patient has a recurrent theme or experience, the Backward Floating Technique is ideal for helping the patient to identify a target for reprocessing. Many patients come into contact with the current problems with relative ease. For example, a patient who complains that she feels abandoned when her husband goes on a business trip, you can probably recall their current problems with ease. Then the therapist can apply the technique Float Backwards to help the patient to remember a past event quickly and efficiently.
To use the technique to back float, arm the protocol to the current problem, using the steps listed in the Training Manual Level I and Level II (Shapiro, 1994) including the image, negative cognition (NC) positive cognition (PC), validation of cognition (VoC), emotions, Subjective Unit of Disturbance (SUD) and bodily sensation. However, it still affects the processing (ie, eye movements or other stimulation). Instead, tell your patient: "Look at the picture ... and those words (repetition of the disturbing image of the patient and negative cognition), note that emotions come from and where you sit on the body. Now close eyes and let your mind float back to an earlier period in your life, look no further, just let your mind float to a time when you thought things like ... (repeat the emotions that said the patient) .. . (repeat parts of the body where the patient felt the sensation). When you are ready open your eyes and tell me the first thing that comes to mind. "
Use this early experience as a target, completing all protocol items: image, CN, CP, VoC, emotions, SUD and location of bodily sensations and begin processing with eye movements or other bilateral stimulation. Once this material has been processed, return to the original target of the current material. Very often we generalize the work done on the earlier material and no longer have to render the current material.
It is important to use general terms when the patient is given instructions Technique Float Backwards, ie a memory request early and not earlier. There are several reasons that support this. First, it is often the worst memory and not the first that works as the best target for reprocessing. In addition, using general terms is an aid for compulsive and perfectionistic patients who otherwise would be too concerned with avoiding failure and find exactly the first association. Finally, the flexibility that allows the use of general rather than specific terms increases the likelihood of success of the patient to connect with the past that is the goal of this technique.
The essential feature of the technique is to use Float Backwards questions of protocol to connect the problems of the present with past events. Skip the questions and were developed by Shapiro is a powerful method to help patients to tune into all aspects of their experience of the problem. The foreign material becomes more vivid and present to the patient and possible recall similar experiences. It is assumed, arguendo, that having developed the protocol with all the questions about the current problem, the neural network encourages and facilitates partnerships almost effortlessly "float back" early associations.
In addition, the patient-therapist relationship is enhanced because the therapist validates the patient's experience (current disruption) to start work from the point where the patient is. Partnerships are the patient, eliminating the issue of resistance to any idea or interpretation introduced by the therapist. The patient realizes experientially connecting the present with the past by using the technique Float Backwards, can avoid the avoidance and other defenses.
While technology enables Float Backwards often patients to see and feel the connection between the current problem and past events, the forward float technique allows the patient to identify and reprocess anticipatory anxiety and develop positive patterns the future. It is a method that can be used at any time of the therapeutic process to troubleshoot crashes, reluctance and in some cases, resistance or topics of ancillary benefits or losses. It is especially useful for working with the patient's fear to do EMDR.
To put this into practice, first ask the patient to imagine the worst that can happen if you "X" (eg. Try a new behavior, test a new skill, start a new experience.) What's the worst that can happen if you EMDR? That's the worst that can happen if you solve this problem? What's the worst that can happen if you put your head limits on the amount of work expected to do? The patient may need help to identify the worst scene. Some suggestions include fear of losing control of his emotions, fear of losing control of their bodily functions such as bowel and bladder control, fear of having a panic attack and can not manage their emotional life between sessions.
Once the patient has identified the incident, ask for the worst part of that scene and use it as the target of EMDR, setting up the protocol with the standard questions, but with a slight modification: ask for the image that represents the worst of worst incident, eg. "When you see a picture of him / herself by ......, it's the worst that can happen?"
Then follow with the rest of the standard questions, ie, CN, CP, VoC, emotions, SUD, and location of bodily sensation. Stimulate the processing of patients with eye movements or other bilateral stimulation.
If the development of the patient's worst scene provokes a rational fear, you may have to take practical steps to address these concerns. For example, using the technique of floating forward with a boy of 13 who was in a temporary foster home, the worst scene evoked for him was: "I will return home if this adoption is not." During processing, the LDS was reduced from 8 to 3 fairly quickly but it does not down. The patient said he did not go down because the "worst scene" could really happen and had happened in the past. Eye movements stopped, we chatted a while and developed a plan for: a) a meeting with her adoptive parents to discuss the permanence of the adoption and b) a conference call to his legal adviser to clarify your rights and options. Returning to the target after that, it was possible to reduce the LDS-1 with a few sets of eye movements.
Using Floating Technique forward to reprocess the worst scenario, the patient has an opportunity to resolve the anticipatory anxiety. During the installation of the positive cognition, the patient is creating positive patterns for future action. A woman whose brother was verbally abusive to her children and now intimidated, put together a "worst stage" with: "It will be equally unfair when I see him next time." The patient had done much EMDR reprocessing childhood incidents related to verbal abuse of his brother. However, without a positive reference experiential, still anxious every time I interacted with him. Asking him to "float forward" and using EMDR on one of the worst scenes, relieved her anxiety about a family party that was pending. Installing a CP of "I'm stronger now allowed him to create an image of herself driving her brother with humor and feeling safe.
To apply the techniques to float back and forth and deal well past, present and future, the EMDR therapist can heal your patient better. Moreover, techniques to float back and forth are based on EMDR. Both incorporate the standard protocol questions and give the therapist and the patient the opportunity to be managed more smoothly with this protocol.
Keywords: Floatback Technique Float Foward Technique
Accuracy Verified: Yes
161. Morris-Smith, J. (2012, June). Footsteps into the future: EMDR for children and families using a neurodevelopmental perspective [Pasos hacia el futuro: EMDR para niños y familias desde una perspectiva del neurodesarrollo]. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Madrid, Spain.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Children Families Neurodevelopment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
162. Lowary, J. (2009, December 31). Former colonel backs new PTSD treatment. The Leaf Chronicle.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
A retired local colonel with more than 30 years of experience in helping soldiers with family and psychological problems is championing a new technique he says can be more than 85 percent effective in the treatment of combat-related stress.
Keywords: E. C. Hurley Military Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
Accuracy Verified: Yes
163. Schofield, T. (1998, October). Francine Shapiro. The Family Journal, 6(4), 337-345. doi:10.1177/1066480798064016 .
Language: English
Format: Journal
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) provides an eight-phase emotionally corrective experience described as a "learning catalyst" for reprocessing traumatic events. The originator of EMDR discusses the experiences that influenced her innovative approach. EMDR is discussed as a learning catalyst, and many misconceptions about the approach are addressed. (EMK) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software.
Keywords: Counseling Techniques Counseling Theories Counselors Eye Movements Family Counseling Misconceptions
Accuracy Verified: Yes
164. Korkmazlar, U., Kurt, B., Bilgisin, G., & Atçeken, S. H. (2012, June). From child to family: Team work with EMDR [Del Niño a la Familia: Trabajo en Equipo EMDR]. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Madrid, Spain.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This presentation will focus on why we need team work especially when we are working with children and how do we integrate
EMDR into our clinical work. We believe that when working with children, the teamwork and the cooperation with the family system are
crucial. Most of the time parents bring their children to therapy as identified patients and want us to fix them. However, in the first session we
realize that most of the childs difficulties stem from unhealthy family system and parents conflicted relationship patterns. Most problems
arise from attachment and trust/ security issues. We observe that when children have difficulty choosing home as safe place; this is a first sign
that there are problems in the family system. Therefore, how we integrate the safe place exercise with play therapy, and the use of EMDR with
storytelling method will be explained. We believe that after a couple of sessions with children, it is very effective referring parents to individual
or couples therapy to work on their own relational and attachment issues to improve childrens mental health. We also mention how to use
EMDR for unresolved trauma and deficient family resources that have been carried from previous generations. The effects of parents own
attitudes and problems on children and their own inter-generational attachment issues are going to be explicated in detail including EMDR
therapy to resolve those unfinished business. All these topics above will be explained with case examples.
Esta presentación se centrará en por qué necesitamos trabajar en equipo, especialmente cuando trabajamos con niños y cómo
integramos EMDR dentro de nuestro trabajo clínico. Creemos que cuando trabajamos con niños, el trabajo en equipo y la cooperación con
el sistema familiar son cruciales. La mayor parte del tiempo, los padres traen a sus hijos a terapia como pacientes identificados y quieren que
los curemos. Sin embargo, en la primera sesión, nos damos cuenta de que la mayoría de las dificultades del niño provienen de un sistema
familiar poco sano y de las pautas relacionales conflictivas de los padres. La mayor parte de los problemas surgen de problemas de apego y
confianza / seguridad. Observamos que cuando los niños tienen dificultades escogiendo su hogar como lugar seguro, es una primera señal
de que existen problemas en el sistema familiar. Por tanto, explicaremos cómo integramos el ejercicio del lugar seguro dentro de la terapia
de juego y cómo usamos EMDR con el método cuentacuentos. Creemos que después de un par de sesiones con niños, es muy efectivo el
derivar a los padres a terapia individual o de pareja para trabajar en sus propios problemas relacionales y de apego para mejorar la salud
mental de los niños. También mencionamos cómo usar EMDR para el trauma no resuelto y para recursos familiares deficientes que han sido
pasados de generaciones anteriores. Se explicarán en detalle los efectos de las actitudes y problemas de los padres sobre los niños y sus
propios problemas intergeneracionales de apego, incluyendo la terapia EMDR para resolver esos temas incompletos. Todos los temas
anteriores serán explicados con ejemplos de casos.
Keywords: Children Family Team Work
Accuracy Verified: Yes
165. Imbroinise, F. (2008, June). The function of the EMDR approach as an anamnestic and therapeutic tool in paediatrics - psychosocial unit. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, London, England.
Language: English
Format: Conference
652 children were treated during 2007 in our Paediatrics - psychosocial unit. The EMDR approach was a means to
do the history taking and anamnesis and it was used as well as an intervention methodology for all pathologies
and disturbances. Our clients received EMDR as inpatients in our war or as outpatients referred by the
community paediatric services. Our therapeutical programme includes a detailed anamnesis done together with
both parents or with caregivers if the child is very small or with the child himself if hes able to provide the
information. History taking with the EMDR approach is an unique opportunity for the family to focus on family
life and its dynamics, and to analyse their unbalanced relational and affective patterns, which they are not always
aware of. Subsequently a therapeutical programme is outlined where EMDR is presented as a treatment method
to face and resolve the presenting complaints. This therapeutical approach facilitates the symptomatology
resolution and is useful to develop a more aware vision of their own family dynamics. Another beneficial effect is
to promote a greater psychophysical wellbeing for the client, providing a new meaning to the somatic disorder
and helping the family to understand and manage their childs problems in a more functional way. This poster
describes all phases of the intervention and the disorders treated in our unit with EMDR. [There are three PDF files.]
Keywords: Anamnesis Children Pediatrics
Accuracy Verified: Yes
166. Shapiro, F., Kaslow, F. W., & Maxfield, L. (2007). Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc. xxxiii, 470 pp.
Language: English
Format: Book
Starting with the Foreword by Daniel Siegel, MD, the Handbook demonstrates in superb detail how you can combine EMDRs information processing approach with family systems perspectives and therapy techniques. An impressive and needed piece of work, Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes provides a clear and comprehensive bridge between individual and family therapies.
Keywords: Family Therapy Processes Practice Theory
Accuracy Verified: Yes
167. Laliotis, D. (2009). Healing the wounds of attachment: An EMDR relational approach. In A. Bloomgarden & R. B. Mennuti (Eds). (2009). Psychotherapist revealed: Therapists speak about self-disclosure in psychotherapy. (pp. 151-162). New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. xviii, 324 pp..
Language: English
Format: Book Section
In this chapter the author describes the use of self-disclosure during eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) psychotherapy with a patient, Melina, who had a poor sense of self and a fear of abandonment. As an EMDR therapist with a psychodynamic, object relations background, the author describes how she explores with Melina how her early experiences as a child informed how she felt about herself as a person and how she relates to family and friends as well as her intimates. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Attachment Early Childhood Experiences Psychotherapy Relational Approach Self-Disclosure
Accuracy Verified: Yes
168. Treadway, D. C. (2008, September). The heart of loving: A new model of couples therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Phoenix, AZ.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Dr. Treadways new model of organizing couples therapy helps the clients design their own treatment plan. This workshop will show how couples choose whether to work on making changes in the here and now, focus on healing from the wounds of their past, or work through their trauma history from their family
of origin. Once couples choose whether to focus on the present or the past, this model then has a variety of additional choices for a couple to explore. Couples might decide to work on communications or behavior changes, problem solving or sexual intimacy. And since many of the couples issues stem from trauma in their respective childhoods or earlier in their relationship, Dr. Treadway will demonstrate how he explores the healing possibilities of utilizing EMDR adjunctively or independently. This workshop will particularly address ways couples can learn to be intimate and sexual, despite their inevitable tensions and trauma history. Participants will learn practical techniques and exercises for helping couples talk honestly about their sexual preferences and differences, be more playful with each other, and design their own solutions to sexual impasses. Dr. Treadway will also explore how couples can rekindle romance and bring spirituality into their erotic life together.
Keywords: Couples Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
169. Lefèbre, R. (2010, 28 September). Heeft sociaal-maatschappelijke stress een complicerende rol bij klachten na psychotrauma? Een onderzoek onder asielzoekers en vluchtelingen naar de relatie tussen traumablootstelling, psychiatrische klachten en de invloed van sociaal-maatschappelijke stressfactoren [Socio-cultural stress has a role in complicating disorders after psychotrauma? A survey of asylum seekers and refugees into the relationship between trauma exposure, psychiatric symptoms and the influence of socio-cultural stress]. Utrecht, Nederlands: Universteit Utrecht.
Language: Dutch
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
In onderzoek onder zestig asielzoekers en vluchtelingen met de diagnose PTSS, die in behandeling waren bij Stichting Centrum 45, is gekeken naar de relatie tussen traumablootstelling en de psychiatrische klachten: depressie-, angst-, en traumaklachten en in het bijzonder naar de mediërende invloed van sociaal-maatschappelijke stressfactoren. Meer traumatische ervaringen bleken samen te hangen met depressieklachten, maar niet met trauma- en angstklachten. Van de sociaal-maatschappelijke stressfactoren bleek stress over lichamelijke klachten samen te hangen met depressieklachten. Stress over het gezinssysteem bleek samen te hangen met angstklachten.Traumablootstelling bleek niet samen te hangen met stress over lichamelijke klachten. Geconcludeerd werd dat sociaal-maatschappelijke stressfactoren geen mediator vormen voor de relatie tussen traumablootstelling en psychiatrische klachten. Voor een behandeling als EMDR, gericht op het traumatisch verleden van de cliënt, zou dit kunnen betekenen dat verdere aandacht aan sociaal-maatschappelijke stressfactoren waarschijnlijk weinig effect zullen sorteren. Ook zet dit vraagtekens bij andere traumabehandelingen als stabilisatietherapie. Mogelijk is deze therapie, die veelvuldig wordt toegepast bij asielzoekers en vluchtelingen, minder zinvol dan gedacht. Daar er sprake was van enkele methodische beperkingen zal vervolgonderzoek moeten uitwijzen of de resultaten generaliseerbaar zijn.
In research among sixty asylum seekers and refugees diagnosed with PTSD, which were pending at Foundation Centrum '45, looked at the relationship between trauma exposure and psychiatric symptoms: depression, anxiety, and trauma symptoms, and in particular to the mediating influence by social stressors. More traumatic experiences were associated with depression symptoms, but not with trauma and anxiety symptoms. The socio-cultural stressors showed stress on physical symptoms correlated with depression symptoms. Stress on the family system was found to correlate with angstklachten.Traumablootstelling was not correlated with stress on physical symptoms. It was concluded that socio-cultural mediator no stress on a relationship between trauma exposure and psychiatric symptoms. EMDR for treatment aimed at the client's traumatic past, this could mean that further attention to socio-cultural stressors unlikely any effect. Also put this question to other treatments such as trauma stabilization therapy. Possible that this therapy is frequently used in asylum seekers and refugees, less useful than expected. Since there were some methodological limitations, further research should reveal whether the results can be generalized.
Keywords: Anxiety Asylum Seekers Depression Symptoms IPTS, Refugees Residency Status Social and Societal Stress Survey Trauma Exposure Trauma Symptoms
Accuracy Verified: Yes
170. Brivio, R., & Bergamaschi, L. (2008, January). Human and organizational aspects affecting the wellbeing in rescue-working activity: EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), Mirror Neuron and Stress Inoculation: The role of training methods, practice and simulation for psychological risks prevention and management in emergency workers.. International Workshop Reinforce Rescuers' Resilience by Empowering a well-being Demension Workshop, Turin, Italy .
Language: English
Format: Conference
The wellbeing of rescuers: Relational, organizational and technical aspects that can affect rescuers' wellbeing during
rescue activities: Stress inoculation, role playing and the role of mirror neurons in training, also through the use of
video recordings. Relaxation techniques, psychological debriefing and EMDR in trainings.
Focus of our intervention is the wellbeing of the rescuer. The study and research
on this matter came and were carried out thanks to the activity done both during
trainings and simulations of the Civil Protection than real emergencies.
Our team work received contribution by some psychologists of OPP (Parmas
Psychologists Observatory: A.Sozzi, E.Pedrelli, F.Frati, A. Bocelli, T. Serra). Wellbeing, defined as a subjective and positive emotional state together with a
global life satisfaction (Diener, 1984), is strongly at risk during rescuers
emergency activities and can affect the rescuer both physically and
psychologically. The rescuer's capabilities, that we think are technical know how and thorough
knowledge, are essential to give the best performance according to the complexity
and urgency of the intervention. These skills can really contribute to the rescuer's
wellbeing, because they can improve the self-efficiency perception.
To effectively manage and train rescuers, it is furthermore important to consider
and acknowledge the influence of interpersonal relationships on technical
performances. It is, in fact, particularly important to recognize and support the
typical relationships that can be created in a team with the same task and
specialization, as well as in multidisciplinary teams, or teams belonging to
different Institutions but operating in the same scenario.
In recent years increasing attention has been given to training activities, even through the use of the role play for interventions in artificial emergency
scenarios. To recreate scenarios of massive emergencies, different Civil Protection
Associations, as well as First Aid volunteer associations and the local
Institutions have been involved. In these simulations, most cases focus on improving technical performances.
Lately psychologists have been asked to join the rescuers team.
During these simulations, the role-play of emotional and psychological problems
occurs thanks to the cooperation between emergency psychologists and the
medical team. The introduction of the role and expertise of psychologists allowed to extend and
strengthen the attention to cross support and care aspects for the psychological
wellbeing of both victims and rescuers.
The psychologist must therefore consider the wellbeing in all the emergency
scenarios and contexts, as a sum of all the components that we talked about here
and the ones we will describe during our intervention.
He must first of all be aware of the complexity of each intervention in the field,
and adopt a kind of approach aimed at creating and recovering wellbeing
strategies, that can be used by himself as well.
Strategies on how to build, recover and maintain the wellbeing identify stress as
the first danger source the rescuer has to face in his training and emergency
When external events or stimuli are perceived as difficult to face compared with
resources available at that moment, the individual gets stressed.
When the person's efforts are not adaptive to the external requests and/or
coherent with his performance expectations, he becomes vulnerable to emotional,
behavioural, cognitive and physical reactions, which can be even very difficult to
manage both in the short and/or in the medium-long term.
This can happen when the sources of stress depend on the rescuers
performance, and it can also happen in case of post traumatic stress, visible in
different stages after the event.
From the psychologist's specialist background and from the integration of this
with the result of field experiences, the demand for a range of different tools to
manage the different kinds of stress emerges, and these tools must be applicable
both to the individual and to the group.
This range is still improving, and the results of our observational activity from
past and present experiences lead us to see the opportunity to carry on our
research of tools of efficacy.
During this speech we would like to underline that approaches like Stress
Inoculation Training (SIT, Michenbaum, 1983) and the use of role playing allow
the technical appraisal and let the rescuers improve their stress management
skills, and all that can lead to a decrease in the risk of PTSD.
In past simulations of emergencies, we found out that the use of videotapes for
the role plays is a tool that should be taken more into account. We think it is
important to evaluate its potential for the rescuers' benefit, because it seems to
be not only a record of technical performances, but also an observation and
learning tool about the rescuer's own defence and adaptive strategies.
In fact, during these simulations we found out that the rescuers' psychological
and emotional vulnerability emerged in several situations. The fact that even in these artificial situations there were acute stress episodes and O codes urged us
to focus more on the matter of mutual influence between technical performance
and internal experience of stress.
We understand that such acute stress episodes may occur during real life critical
events but we can see how role playing and video recordings show that such
acute stress episodes affected the simulators themselves even during the
simulation. The videos show that even apparently high immunity simulators,
who are considered 'immune' thanks to their comprehensive and strong
experience, experienced acute stress, perhaps because of an incorrect selfevaluation
of their own stress management skills.
The interest in the use of videos as a training and reprocessing tool for rescuers
led some of us to specialize in role playing recording, so as to carry out a more
accurate and comprehensive study on those same videos and use them as a
mirror of reality and better educational tool through a vicar experience or through
seeing oneself from within the experience and in the interpersonal dynamics
that took place in the scenario.
Videotapes are a very known and widely used tool in other kinds of trainings,
disciplines and therapies (i.e. Family Therapy and CBT).
The discovery of mirror neurons by Rizzolati, Gallese et Al., provides the evidence
that when someone observes the same action performed by another person, the
neurons "mirrors" the behaviour of that person, as though the observer were itself
acting. Thanks to these researchers it is now proven that this can happen
thanks to the motor neurons in the pre-motor cortex.
Therefore, we would like to underline the role of videos as very useful and
versatile training tools, since they expose a situation in an unexpected realistic
manner as if it were true and as if we were really experiencing that situation,
with the consequent learning movements at the emotional, cognitive and
behavioural level, at the stress management level, as well as at the level of team
work dynamics.
Visual imagination activates the same brain regions that are active during visual
perception and motor imagination activates the same brain regions activated the
movement is really happening.
More importantly, it was possible for us to verify that the videos recorded by other
operators were not focused on showing the important psychological aspects we
mentioned for the goal of the trainings, thing that happened instead with the
videos recorded by psychologists. We think therefore that the use of videotapes
recorded by psychologists should be given more consideration in the trainings of
rescuers. During this intervention we will devote part of the time to broadcasting
two short videos; the first one shows the role playing of an intervention in an
emergency context, and the second one shows a part of an EMDR session (Eye
Movement Desensitization Reprocessing). We think it is important to recreate and
protect rescuers wellbeing in the post-role playing and post emergency stages
too. For years EMDR has been proven effective in improving the individual's
coping skills and in reprocessing, wherever necessary, the post traumatic
aspects resulting from critical events to whom not only the victims, but also the rescuers too, are exposed during emergencies.
Keywords: Emergency Workers Mirror Neuron and Stress Inoculation Rescue-Working Activity Risk Prevention and Management
Accuracy Verified: Yes
171. Fernandez, I. (2009, Marzo). Il trauma della sterilita: Applicazioni cliniche dell'EMDR [The trauma of infertility: Clinical Applications of EMDR]. Presentazione presso il soma Convegno Infertilita ARM e Psiche: Riflessioni, professinalita, Esperienza a confronto, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Negli ultimi 20 anni l'Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) come approccio terapeutico e diventato uno instrumento significativo per la practica clinica. L'EMDR costituisce un metodo psicoterapeutico innovativo, attualmente soggetto ad una grand quantita di ricerca specialmente in ambito nerurofisiologico. Attulament esiste molta evidenza empirica scaturita dalla ricerca condotta con gruppi de controllo, che supportano la validita di questo metodo e nuovo approccio terapeutico per il Disturbo Post-Traumatico da Stress (PTSD) e le linee guida internazionali per la pratica clinica lo segnalano come trattament elettivo dei disturbi post-traumatici da stress. Le esperienze traumatiche non elaborate sono in genere considerate la causa primaria della sintomatologia del disturbo post traumatico da stress e possono essere fonte de disagio concorrenti allo sviluppo di altri disturbi d'ansia e dell'umore. Data la sua efficacia nella risoluzione di sintomi da stress dope un evento traumatico particolarmente grave, l'EMDR puo essere applicato con altri disturbi che possono essere conseguenti ad un grosso stress psico-fisico. In alcune condizioni la sterilita potrebbe rientrare tra gli eventi di tipo traumatico o a forte impatto emotivo, a seconda del vissuto soggettiveo della paziente. Tenendo conto che il vissuto traumatico puo avere un impatto anche sui legami affettivi, l'identita della persona, la modulazione affettiva, il comportamento distruttivo rivolto a se o agli altri, ecc., l'EMDR potrebbe essere particolarmente indicato per il trattamento del disagio psicologico legato alla sterilita. Nel case della sterilita puo essere utilizzato per affontare: 1) traumi precedenti che possono constituire un fattore di rischio per l'insorgere della depressione. Per esempio: traumi subiti in eta percoce,compresa la perdita della capacita de regolazione emotiva, possono essere alla base di comportamenti che evidenziano una tendenza cronical ad instaurare rapporti distruttivi, la dissociazinoe e l'amnesia, la somatizzazione, e problemi caratteriali cronici come la auto-colpevolizzazione, il senso de inadeuatezza, ecc. 2) L'impatto de problemi medici e di altri natura che possono essere insorti e possono aver constituto una fonte di stress. 3) L'impatto delle difficolta oggettive e soggettive date dalla nuova condizione. 4) Schemi cognitivi difunzionali come "non sono in grado", non sono all'altezza della nuova situazione familiare", oppure "non sono una brava madre". 5) L'impatto della riattivazione de traume o situazioni disfunzionali nella propria famiglia di origine. 6) Le risorse, i comportamenti positivi e gli schemi adattivi di attaccamento devono essere rafforzati e puo essere usato l'EMDR anche per questo obiettivo.
Over the past 20 years, Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as a therapeutic approach has become a significant instrumento for clinical practica. EMDR is an innovative psychotherapeutic method which is currently subject to a great deal of research especially in the context nerurofisiologico. Attulament there is plenty of empirical evidence generated by research conducted with groups of control, which support the validity of this method and new therapeutic approach for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and international guidelines for clinical practice report it as elective trattament of post-traumatic stress disorder. Traumatic experiences were not processed are generally considered the primary cause of the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder and can be a source of discomfort to the development of competitors other anxiety and mood disorders. Because of its effectiveness in resolving symptoms of traumatic stress is a particularly serious dope, EMDR can be applied to other disorders that may be associated with a great psycho-physical stress. In some circumstances, the sterility may be among the type of traumatic event or a strong emotional impact, depending on the patient lived soggettiveo. Considering that the traumatic experience can have an impact on emotional relationships, the identity of the person, the emotional modulation, destructive behavior directed at oneself or others, etc.., EMDR may be particularly indicated for the treatment of discomfort psychological linked to infertility. In the case of infertility can be used for men faced: 1) previous trauma that can constitues a risk factor for the onset of depression. For example: age peaches in trauma, including loss of the ability of emotional regulation may be the basis of behaviors that show a tendency to establish relations cronical destructive, and the dissociazinoe amnesia, somatization, and temperament problems such as chronic self-blame, sense of inadeuatezza, etc.. 2) The impact of medical problems and other nature that may be incurred and may have constituta a source of stress. 3) The impact of objective and subjective difficulties given the new condition. 4) difunctional cognitive schemata as "can not" are not up to the new family situation, "or" not a good mother. "5) The impact of the reactivation of trauma or dysfunctional situations in their family of origin . 6) The resources and positive behaviors and adaptive patterns of attachment must be reinforced and EMDR can be used for this purpose.
Keywords: Infertility
Accuracy Verified: Yes
172. Flemke, K., & Protinsky, H. (2001, December). Imago dialogues: Treatment enhancement with EMDR. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 12(4), 1-14. doi:10.1300/J085v12n04_01.
Language: English
Format: Journal
The goal of Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) is to have a healing connection form within the couple relationship. Some tools for achieving such connection include the Couples-Dialogue and the Parent-Child Dialogue. Despite the effectiveness of these interventions, it seems that some past childhood hurts and traumas remain unprocessed within the brain of certain individuals, thus inhibiting intimacy. By implementing Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in tandem with IRT, clients who are stuck within these communication enhancement exercises are often able to establish a healing connection, thus further repairing past childhood wounds. Case studies have been included to illustrate the effectiveness of such integration.
Keywords: Childhood Childhood Development Conversation Couples-Dialogue Couples Relationships Couples Therapy Emotional Trauma Healing connection Imago Relationship Therapy Interventions Intimacy Marital Relations Parent Child Communication Parent-Child Dialogue Psychotherapeutic Techniques Relationship Therapy Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
173. Flemke, K., & Protinsky, H. (2003). Imago dialogues: Treatment enhancement with EMDR. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 14(2), 31-45. doi:10.1300/J085v14n02_03 .
Language: English
Format: Journal
The goal of Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) is to have a healing connection form within the couple relationship. Some tools for achieving such connection include the Couples-dialogue and the Parent-Child dialogue. Despite the effectiveness of these interventions, it seems that some past childhood hurts and traumas remain unprocessed within the brain of certain individuals, thus inhibiting intimacy. By implementing Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in tandem with IRT, clients who are stuck within these communication enhancement exercises are often able to establish a healing connection, thus further repairing past childhood wounds. Case studies have been included to illustrate the effectiveness of such integration.
Keywords: Child Dialogue Childhood Childhood Development Conversation Couples-Dialogue Couple Relationships Couples Therapy Emotional Trauma Healing Connection Imago Relationship Therapy Intimacy Marital Relations Parent Child Communication Parent-Child Interventions Psychotherapeutic Techniques Relationship Therapy Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
174. Knudsen, N. J. (2007). Integrating EMDR and Bowen Theory in treating chronic relationship dysfunction. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp.169-186). Hoboken,. xxxiii, 470 pp.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
The concept of Chronic Relationship Dysfunction was developed by the author to describe the experience of those who are unable to find and maintain a healthy relationship with a mate and who feel considerable related emotional distress. The types of experiences that people with this problem typically present in a clinical setting include the inability to make any meaningful contact with an appropriate partner and making a series of poor choices so that no relationship lasts. Clients seeking treatment for relationship problems can be effectively treated using a Bowen family systems perspective (Bowen, 1978; Kerr & Bowen, 1988) as the theoretical backdrop for understanding the bigger relational context. In addition, the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model (Shapiro, 2001) can be used to understand the physiological link between critical early life experiences and current dysfunction. Together these theories provide a cohesive theoretical base and integrative treatment approach for use with clients with chronic relationship dysfunction. The AIP model and the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) approach address current symptoms such as chronic relationship dysfunction by allowing the individual to reprocess the old material, thus integrating it with current information. The treatment model described here utilizes the basic structure of the EMDR protocol with the clinical application of Bowen Theory at certain key times. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model AIP Bowen Theory Chronic Relationship Dysfunction Cognitive Processes Family Systems Theory Interpersonal Relationships Models
Accuracy Verified: Yes
175. Klaff, F. (1996, June). Integrating EMDR and family therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Denver, CO.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
176. Bardin, A., Comet, J., & Porten, D. (2007). Integrating EMDR and family therapy: Treating the traumatized child. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 325-343). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
No abstract available.
Keywords: Emotional Trauma Family Systems Perspective Family Systems Theory Family Therapy Structural Family Therapy Integrative Psychotherapy Therapeutic Stages Traumatic Event Traumatized Child
Accuracy Verified: Yes
177. Sherzer, M. (2008, June). Integrating EMDR in family & couple therapy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, London, England UK.
Language: English
Format: Conference
In this poster I am going to raise the question of integrating EMDR in family and couple therapy. This is a
philosophical question. I actually am asking if it's possible to integrate an individual approach with a systemic
one. Those scholars who dealt with this question found some common roots in the attachment period. For
example, the Hendrix' IMAGO approach presume that the marital crisis has its roots in the childhood wounds. We
can find other approaches that enforce this assumption. The literature that deals with integrating EMDR with
couple therapy does not find differences between traumas caused by marital crisis and traumas caused by other
stimuli. This brings us to the idea it is possible that EMDR will be useful in a marital crisis also. The novelty was
that those therapists who mastered both skills, family therapists and EMDR therapists, started with protocols
that integrate EMDR in couple therapy in the presence of both spouses. From the first beginning, Francine
Shapiro mentions in her basic book on EMDR that are cases where EMDR is contra-indicated in couple therapy in
the presences of both mates. Later on we found that we can classify the cases when to use EMDR in the presence
of both spouses and when to use it individually. Of course, this categorization is based on clinical observation. We
like to refer this question to the members of this poster presentation if they have some more insights about this
Keywords: Couples Therapy Family Therapy Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
178. Whisman, M., & Keller, M. (1999, June). Integrating EMDR in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Las Vegas, NV.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will: 1) learn the model of understanding and educating the client about OCD; 2) gain an understanding of biological, cognitive, behavioral, and affective theoretical orientations as they apply to OCD; 3) learn the eight stages of treatment, modification of the standards model, cognitive interweave, and resource installation; 4) learn of the foundation of success of EMDR and OCD treatment, information processing, avoidance of emotions, and the development of self; 5) be able to define a successful treatment, therapeutic stance, similarities in processing to trauma processing; and 6) learn about fear, superstition, ridigity, and control within the family context.
Keywords: Cognitive Interweave Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD Resource Installation
Accuracy Verified: Yes
179. Silvestre, M. (2006, June). Integrating EMDR into family therapy: The way forward following the death of a sibling. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Istanbul, Turkey.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
180. Crow, C. (2004, September). Integrating EMDR with humanistic attachment therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Assocation, Montreal, Quebec Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR and Humanistic Attachment Therapy are the "dynamic duo" in child attachment therapy. Participants will learn the basics of attachment therapy; function of trauma and loss in attachment breaks; continuum of attachment disorders; dissecting the dynamics of a case and prescribe therapeutic goals; and the missing "safe base." Installation of a primary caregiver is critical.
Careful preparation for EMDR allows the use of all elements of the protocol to effect dramatic change. Parents who understand that trauma and loss drive the child's unattached behaviors are able to endure with hope far longer and help their child "find the family heart."
Keywords: Humanistic Attachment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
181. Glang, C., & Penner, C. (1996, June). Integrating EMDR with marital and family systems therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Denver, CO.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This presentation reflects our thoughts and clinical experiences regarding ways that EMDR can
broaden the therapeutic interplay between individual and systemic issues. We will discuss
iwmerous areas of consideration, along with case examples. A list of questions will be handed out,
which can help to guide therapists' thinking. We will also suggest ways to design cognitive
interweaves with a systemic focus.
Keywords: Family Therapy Marital Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
182. Aloisio, T. M. F. (2012, October). Integrating structural Bowen theory and EMDR: Healing trauma and sexual disorders after a rape suffered. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Arlington, VA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
The couple was assaulted by four men, one appeared to be a minor. They forced the couple into their own car and raped the wife, forcing the husband to watch the rape under gunpoint.
With both parents assaulted and raped, the family reported a history of sexual trauma and underwent an EMDR therapy in addition to Bowen theory.
They presented the following symptoms: The wife: episodes of panic, depression, insomnia and nightmares, anorgasmia and vaginismus. The husband: anxiety disorder, insomnia, intrusive negative thoughts, premature ejaculation and erectile difficulties. The children: Larissa - difficultues in sleeping and concentrating in her studies. Yago - nocturnal enuresis and difficulty sleeping alone in his bedroom.
The EMDR standard protocol was used to clear the trauma within the relationship as well as with outside relationships. Experiences from before and after the rape were also targeted, as well as differentiation in the couple, including unsatisfactory sex.
There were nine encounters, during nine weeks, with an average of three hours each.
Follow up data from the couple was obtaained after six months.
Keywords: Bowen Theory Poster Rape Sexual Disorders Victim
Accuracy Verified: Yes
183. Silvestre, M. (2007, Juin). Integration EMDR et therapie familiale [Integration of EMDR and family therapy]. Présentation à la réunion annuelle de l'Association EMDR Europe, Paris, France.
Language: French
Format: Conference
Cette présentation s'articule autour de l'intégration du travail EMDR avec des enfants et de l'approche de thérapie familiale systémique. Nous savons qu'à la suite d'un incident traumatique vécu par un member d'une famille, les liens familiaux souffrent au point parfois de se déchirer. Nous pouvons aider la personne traumatisée et aussi permettre à la famille de digérer les conséquences de cet incident sans perdre son unité. Le travail insistra sur l'aide individuelle (EMDR) et l'aide aux liens familiaux malmenès lors l'accidents traumatiques. Le système familial peut alors garder son intégrité et ètre un lieu de ressources. Les points de comment, quand et pourquoi intégrer ces deux approches seront illustrés par des éléments théoriques et des exemples cliniques.
This presentation focuses on the integration of EMDR work with children and the approach to systemic family therapy. We know that following a traumatic incident experienced by a member of a family, family relationships suffer sometimes to the point of tearing. We can help the traumatized person and also allow the family to digest the implications of this incident without losing its unity. The work on individual aid insistra (EMDR) and assistance to abused family ties in the traumatic accident. The family system can then maintain its integrity and be a resource. The points of how, when and why to integrate these two approaches are illustrated by theoretical and clinical examples.
Keywords: Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
184. Konuk, E., & Epozdemir, H. (2010, June). The integration of EMDR and brief strategic therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Hamburg, Germany.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Directives and strategic interventions were used in
therapy for the first time almost half a century ago by a small
number of 'communication researchers' at MRI (Mental Research
institute) in Palo Alto. California.
First time in the history of therapy, the therapist was not alone
with the dent in the therapy room. He began inviting to the
sessions the family members. people who are contributing to
the problem and people who will come up and help to find
The radical difference was that; The Palo Alto Group was not
preoccupied with searching the reasons why there is a problem.
Their emphasis was to find a solution to the problems the individual or the family is having. Therefore they always asked how
change is possible. Another major shift in therapy was that:
they focused not on the "intra-psychic" phenomena but on the
relationships. Hence the terms 'interactional' and 'systemic'.
They assumed that, if you can manage to change the interaction
(behavior) or the system (how the family gets organized
around the problem) you can overcome the problem. Another contribution was that the new map or the new paradigm was
large enough to allow the therapist to incorporate and use varieties
of techniques that belong to other approaches without
any confusion.
In '50s and '60s therapy used to take couple of sessions a week
for many years. The Interactional or the Systemic approach
heaped reduce the number of sessions per client to an average
of 7-15 sessions. They coined the term 'Brief' to described their
approach. Traditionally the new approach took several names:
Interactional Therapy, Family Therapy, Brief Strategic Family
Therapy, Systemic Family Therapy, Solution Focus Therapy and
some others.
One of the approaches that Family and Marriage Therapists integrate
efficiently into their practice is EMDR. Especially when
trauma is particularly having a role in the formation of the problem,
then EMDR 18 a "life saver" for the therapist.
Our learning objectives are:
1. to describe basic principles and techniques of EMDR and
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
2 to explain the rationale of integrating EMDR and BSFT
3 to demonstrate skills on designing and implementing an intervention.
The innovative view which stands behind this workshop is that
the BSFT and EMDR can be efficiently integrated, which has
not been frequentiy addressed in previous literature. At times
the therapist may need to intervene in the process by using interventions
other than BSFT EMDR very nicely serves this purpose
without causing any mental confusion on the part of the
therapist and the client.
Keywords: Brief Strategic Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
185. Maxfield, L., Kaslow, F. W., & Shapiro, F. (2007). The integration of EMDR and family systems therapies. In F. Shapiro, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes (pp. 407-422). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc. xxxiii, 470 pp.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
A fundamental tenet of systems theory is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (von Bertalanaffy, 1968). Clearly, this basic principle can be applied to the integration of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and family systems therapy (FST): The combined approach has a synergistic effect, with each of the two treatment components intertwining to maximize the individual effects of the other. This integrative treatment approach can result in profound changes for both the individual and the family. This chapter presents a case study of EMDR treatment of Tara, a 15-year-old girl, who was treated successfully with EMDR (for details, refer to Chapter 1; see record 2007-01569-001). This case is summarized here to serve as a foundation for a discussion of similarities and differences among the various FST models, as well as to provide an overview of an integrative FST and EMDR treatment. The authors suggest how the various integrative treatment approaches described in this book could have been used if the parents had been willing to engage in family therapy with Tara. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Family System Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
186. Twombly, J. H., & Schwartz, R. C. (2008). The integration of the internal family systems model and EMDR. In C. Forgash and M. Copeley, (Eds.) Healing the heart of trauma and dissociation with EMDR and ego state therapy (pp. 295-311). New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Although EMDR can be used successfully with the majority of clients, there are times when its effectiveness is limited, and clients for whom it simply doesn't work. Often this occurs when affect is partially or completely unavailable and the flow of the processing becomes partially or completely blocked. The Internal Family Systems Model (IPS; Schwartz, 1995) is an elegant, efficient, and powerful ego state treatment modality that, when used with EMDR, can increase its range of effectiveness. This chapter will provide an introduction to IPS and describe ways of using it to enhance or enable EMDR processing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Family Systems Model
Accuracy Verified: Yes
187. Wade, T., & Wade, D. (2001, January-April). Integrative psychotherapy: Combining ego-state therapy, clinical hypnosis, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in a psychosocial developmental context. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 43(3-4), 233-245. doi:10.1080/00029157.2001.10404279.
Language: English
Format: Journal
The principles of this conceptual framework are: (1) personality organization is
dissociative as well as associative, consisting of ego states, and progresses through
stages of psychosocial development; (2) inappropriately activated ego states cause
dysfunction, which is habitual or due to the intense affect of disrupted development
or unresolved grief or trauma; (3) completely overcoming dysfunction requires
therapy with both individual ego states and the personality system; (4) clinical
hypnosis provides techniques to enhance accessing ego states; and (5) EMDR
combines ego-state therapy with eye movements (EMs) to produce a powerful
psychotherapy method. During assessment, ego states responsible for
dysfunctional emotional reactions and behavior are identified together with those
that could be appropriate instead. Included in the treatment protocol, EMs and
clinical hypnosis promote: (1) corrective developmental experiences; (2) resolution
of grief and trauma; (3) acquisition of skills and abilities; (4) co-consciousness;
and (5) negotiation among ego states. The outcome is an integrated family of
self that has effectively overcome developmental crises, grief, and trauma, is
aware of essential inner resources, and can consciously activate appropriate ego
states. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Clinical Hypnosis Ego Ego-State Therapy Hypnotherapy Integrative Psychotherapy Review Multimodal Treatment Approach Psychosocial Development Psychosocial Developmental Context
Accuracy Verified: Yes
188. Maxfield, L. (2007). Integrative treatment of intrafamilial child sexual abuse. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 344-364). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
This chapter discusses childhood sexual abuse (CSA); the role of the family after disclosure; theoretical conceptualizations; and family systems therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of CSA. A combination of family therapy and EMDR can provide thorough comprehensive treatment for the child and nonoffending family members. The integrated treatment process developed by this author has four stages, as further discussed here. To simplify, the family situation is configured as a nonoffending protective mother with a child abused by the mother's husband or live-in boyfriend. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Childhood Sexual Abuse Family Systems Theory Family Systems Therapy Family Therapy Integrative Psychotherapy Integrative Treatment Sexual Abuse
Accuracy Verified: Yes
189. Scagliotti, J. (2011). Interoceptive exposure therapy for combat veterans: A group treatment approach. University of Hartford, Hartford, CT.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
This paper explores the application of interoceptive exposure (IE) therapy to treat the arousal and avoidant symptoms in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The historical background of PTSD and the functional impact of the disorder in veterans from Vietnam and Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom are discussed in the first chapter. Literature on romantic and family relationship impairment, employment challenges, decreased physical health and overall quality of life, and increased mental health issues in veterans of combat are presented. Following the introductory chapter is a brief description of the history of treatment for combat trauma and a detailed review of the most common treatments for PTSD in their application to the veteran population. Research on psychophysiological approaches to treatment, pharmacotherapy, and EMDR is discussed. The extensive literature on cognitive behavioral treatment approaches for combat trauma is reviewed. As noted, exposure therapy appears to be the treatment approach with the most scientific support. A relatively new form of exposure therapy known as IE, as well as the small but promising body of research on the potential to augment conventional long-term exposure therapy with IE, are also addressed here. A new treatment protocol proposed here is built upon the foundation of empirical support for cognitive behavioral therapy for PTSD. It is intended to incorporate trauma-informed best practices and exposure therapy tenets through the implementation of group based IE for individuals with combat-related PTSD. Outlines of the following two sections will provide detailed descriptions of the group design and the specific treatment modules, the first of which addresses therapeutic rationale and group composition, and the second lists the specific twelve treatment modules.
Keywords: Combat Veterans Interoceptive Exposure Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
190. Affonso, S. D. S. (2012, Novembro). Intervenção do EMDR em uma situação de luto traumático infantil: Vivência de uma criança de seis anos no adoecimento e morte de sua irmã de dois anos vítima de leucemia [EMDR intervention in a situation of childhood traumatic grief: Experiences of a child of six years in the illness and death of her sister two years of leukemia victim]. In EMDR na infância. Apresentação no II Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Em uma família com estrutura complexa: a mãe vive há 14 anos durante o dia com o companheiro que é casado com outra mulher (com quem passa as noites) e teve dois filhos desse relacionamento. Importante ressaltar que a mãe vivia nas ruas e teve uma nova chance ao ser acolhida por uma madrinha. A menina, de dois anos, adoeceu e faleceu vítima de leucemia. O menino, de seis anos, passou a apresentar comportamento agressivo na escola, dificuldade de aprendizagem, dispersão e insônia. A madrinha foi quem procurou o EMDR por telefone. Com seis sessões, intercalando atendimentos à mãe e à criança, com uso de EBs auditivos para a mãe e EBs visuais para o segundo, desenhos para ambos, relato de sonhos, e na última sessão com mãe e filho, com o uso de um ritual de despedida com a linha do tempo. Nesta última, contaram sobre as melhoras do menino em dormir e em seu aproveitamento escolar. Aproveitaram para dizer que os sonhos continuavam encaminhados e estavam finalmente começando a dar certo.
In a family with complex structure: the mother lives 14 years ago during the day with a partner who is married to another woman (who spends his nights) and had two children from that relationship. Importantly, the mother lived on the streets and had another chance to be accepted by a sponsor. The girl, two years old, fell ill and died of leukemia. The boy, six years old, began to show aggressive behavior in school, learning difficulties, insomnia and dispersion. The godmother was the one who tried EMDR by phone. With six sessions, alternating visits to the mother and child, using EBs hearing for the mother and for the second visual EBs, drawings for both reporting of dreams, and last sessions with mother and child, with the use of a ritual farewell to the timeline. In the latter, told the boy about the improvements in sleep and in their school. Took the opportunity to say that dreams were still underway and finally starting to go right.
Keywords: Childhood Trauma Family Grief Process
Accuracy Verified: Yes
191. Cuttitta, D. (2010, Octubre/Noviembre). Intervencion EMDR en ninos en una terapia familiar [EMDR intervention in children in a family therapy]. Conferència presentada II Congreso Iberoamericano de EMDR y Psicotrauma, Quito, Ecuador.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Keywords: Children Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
192. Cuttitta, D. (2009, Junio). Intervención en niños con EMDR dentro de la terapia familiar [EMDR intervention for children within the family therapy]. Presentación en X Congreso Internacional de Estres Traumatico, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Keywords: Children Intervention Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
193. Luber, M., & Shapiro, F. (2009). Interview with Francine Shapiro: Historical overview, present issues, and future directions of EMDR. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 3(4), 217-231. doi:10.1891/1933-322.214.171.124.
Language: English
Format: Journal
This interview with Dr. Francine Shapiro, originator and developer of Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR), provides an overview of the history and evolution of EMDR from its inception
to current findings and utilization, as well as future directions in research and clinical development.
Dr. Shapiro discusses the psychological traditions that informed the development of EMDR and the Adaptive
Information model, as well as the implications for current treatment. The rationale for the application
of EMDR to a wide range of disorders is discussed, as well as its integration with other therapeutic approaches.
Topics include research on the role of eye movements, the use of EMDR with combat veterans,
somatoform disorders, attachment issues, and the distinct features of EMDR that have allowed it to be
used for crisis intervention worldwide.
Dr. Francine Shapiro is the originator and developer of EMDR. She is a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute
(MRI) in Palo Alto, California, executive director of the EMDR Institute in Watsonville, California, and the founder and
president emeritus of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program, a nonprofit organization that coordinates disaster
response and supports low fee training worldwide. She has written the primary text on EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing: Basic Principles and Procedures (Guilford Press) and co-authored or edited four others: EMDR: The
Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma (Basic Books), EMDR as an Integrative Psychotherapy Approach:
Experts of Diverse Orientations Explore the Paradigm Prism (American Psychological Association Books), Handbook of EMDR
and Family Therapy Processes (Wiley), and Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change. She has written and co-authored more
than 60 articles and chapters and is an invited speaker at psychology conferences all over the world. Dr. Shapiro is a recipient
of the American Psychological Association Division 56 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma
Psychology, the Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award presented by the California Psychological Association
and the International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy presented by the City of Vienna in conjunction
with the World Council of Psychotherapy. She was appointed one of the Cadre of Experts by the American Psychological
Association and Canadian Psychological Association Joint Initiative on Ethno-political Warfare. She has served as an
advisor to many trauma treatment and outreach organizations and journals. She has three awards bestowed in her honor.
Those given by the EMDR International Association and the EMDR-Ibero-American Association celebrate members of
the EMDR community who follow in her footsteps of creative thinking, service, and dedication to the standard of EMDR.
The EMDR Europe Association presents the Francine Shapiro EMDR-Europe Research Award in order to encourage
research in the field. In 2008, a comprehensive electronic resource for scholarly articles and other important references
related to EMDR and adaptive information processing was introduced and was named The Francine Shapiro Library in
honor of Dr. Shapiro (http://emdr.nku.edu/emdr_data.php).
Accuracy Verified: Yes
194. Snyder, M. (1996, December). Intimate partners: A context for the intensification and healing of emotional pain. Women and Therapy, 19(3), 79-92. doi:10.1300/J015v19n03_08.
Language: English
Format: Journal
A case of a lesbian couple is presented in which one partner experienced early sexual abuse and the other a series of major losses (beginning with the death of her mother) in early childhood. The first partner developed an alcohol addiction and the second a high level of emotional lability and some practices of self-harm. Both partners developed dissociative patterns. The couple is now in a committed relationship and have continued in therapy for the last 9 months, with sessions gradually becoming less frequent. The therapeutic work has included the "externalization" of the problem(s), some individual work within the couple session using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and a strong emphasis on the development of empathic skill through the technique of "becoming" the other person. The case reveals the way in which a primary relationship often surfaces intense unresolved feelings and dysfunctional relationship practices, and also the way in which emotional commitment and a structure for the couple becoming therapeutic agents to each other allows for a deep level of healing. The couple comments on their relationship process and the therapeutic process as part of the article. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Adults Americans Case Report Child Abuse Family Therapy Females Homosexuals Incest Interpersonal Interaction Psychiatric Disorders Rape Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
195. Horne, B. (2012, April). Joyful practice: EMDR and the therapist. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This workshop will focus on the benefits of EMDR to the therapist, rather than to the client (for whom they are already well established!). It will examine the therapeutic relationship that is made necessary by the AIP, where in the therapist now takes the stance of privileged expert witness to the client's own healing, rather than being the agent or supplier of that healing. The history of the therapeutic relationship will be briefly tracked, with adescription of the paradigm shift that began with family systems pioneers such as Carl Whitaker, who challenged therapists to take a more client-centered, respectfull view of the therapeutic relationship. EMDR therapists can now shift from being helpers or healers to being informed and privileged witnesses. Norcross (2005) has demonstrated that EMDR is an "evidence-based therapy" largely due to the therapeutic attunement that it requires. The neurobiological & hormonal benefits of attunement (Schore, Gray) are coming to be better understood. This attunement will be examined from the point of view of the benefit to the therapist, as well as to the client. This attunement greatly enhances ourability to work joyfully and abundantly (and hence, more effectively). These benefits, accompanied by the optimism and hope that is fed by therepeated witnessing of our clients transformations precludes any possibility of compassion fatigue indeed the work is exhilarating. This workshop will be largely didactic, but case examples and space for sharing & discussion will be incorporated into the 90-minutes framework.
Learning Objectives:
1.Participants will compare the traditional medical-model therapeutic relationship with EMDRs more client-respectful / responsible model.
2. Participants will expand their understanding of how the AIP dictates & requires this changed therapeutic relationship and its impact on us as therapists.
3. Participants will identify and examine the EMDR therapist s freedom from responsibility for our clients and appreciate the impact on us of our routinely excellent treatment outcomes
4. Participants will identify and acknowledge the benefits of therapeutic attunement to the therapist.
5. Participants will show awareness of their own experiences, from the point of view of the therapist-benefit aspects of EMDR.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
196. Burne, J. (1994, July 26). Just follow my finger, can simple eye treatments cure deep-seated traumas?. London, England: The Independent.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Abstract: At 38, Emma was walking Which? -guide to therapies: behaviourist, cognitive, hypnosis, family and psychiatry. For 18 years she had tried the lot in an increasingly despairing attempt 'to conquer her agoraphobia. So it was with considerable scepticism that she embarked last year on a new therapy - Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) - that was apparently achieving miracle cures across the United States. What made her even more wary was that It sounded as absurdly simple as it was bizarre.
Keywords: General London Overview
Accuracy Verified: Yes
197. Gambuzza, C. (2008, Novembre). L'EMDR in un trauma complesso di PN-PTSD e abuso [EMDR in a complex PN-PTSD trauma and abuse]. Poster presentato al Applicazioni Cliniche dell'EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Propongo il caso di S. perché il PN-PTSD è poco diagnosticato e perché, attraverso una variante tecnica al floatback, il floatback-floatforward sulla timeline, sono riuscita ad aggirare la dissociazione post traumatica, a identificare i vari alter dissociati e a integrarli nella persona con luso del protocollo standard dellEMDR.
A sedici anni S. fu portata in studio dai genitori che lavevano sorpresa a inalare i fumi delleroina; oggi ha diciotto anni e non si droga più da quel giorno.
Guardandole le braccia piene di cicatrici mi resi conto che S. ricorreva alla pratica dellautolesionismo, ma i genitori non se ne accorgevano.
Qual era il segreto custodito gelosamente dalla famiglia?
La storia di S. si articola intorno a due traumi: il PN-PTSD e labuso.
Dal trauma perinatale e dalla percezione in utero degli stati emotivi depressivi della madre sono scaturiti disturbi nellattaccamento e, per la mancanza di mirroring e di sintonizzazione affettiva, sono falliti i processi dinternalizzazione che portano allidentità.
S. era consapevole del trauma dellabbandono ma non dellabuso, che definiva come un pozzo nero impenetrabile.
Per affrontare il trauma che minacciava la sopravvivenza, S. faceva ricorso in maniera invasiva a un meccanismo di coping: la dissociazione delloggetto e del Sé. Mettere in un alter labuso consentiva a S. di mantenere lattaccamento ai membri della propria famiglia che avevano abusato di lei o attivamente, o passivamente con la complicità del silenzio.
Usando la scala Des non ho riscontrato risultati significativi sulla dissociazione, invece con la SCID-LIST ho rilevato valori alti.
Lautolesionismo può rappresentare lodio per il corpo che ha subito labuso senza ribellarsi, o, come dice S., un modo per punirsi della colpa di esistere o di infliggersi una sofferenza fisica per coprire langoscia di morte.
LEMDR ha rappresentato la sfida.
Propose the case of S. because the PN-PTSD is poorly diagnosed and because, through a variant technique to floatback the floatback-floatforward on the timeline, I managed to circumvent the Post traumatic dissociation, to identify the various alter-differentiated and integrate them in person using the standard EMDR protocol. At sixteen, S. was brought to the study by parents who had found to inhale the fumes of heroin; Today is eighteen years and not more drugs that day. Looking at the arms full of scars I realized that St. resorted to the practice of self, but the parents did not noticed. What was the secret guarded jealously by the family? The story of St. focuses on two traumas: the PN-PTSD and abuse. Since perinatal trauma and perception of emotional states of depression in the uterus of the mother are resulting in attachment disorders and the lack of mirroring and affective attunement, failed processes of internalization that lead to identity. S. was aware of the trauma of abandonment but not the abuse, which defined as a "well
impenetrable black. To deal with the trauma that threatened the survival, S. was used in an invasive manner coping mechanism: the dissociation of object and self. Putting an alter abuse allowed S. to maintain the attachment to family members who had abused her or actively, or passively with the complicity of silence. Using the scale Des I have not found significant results on the dissociation, but with the SCID-LIST I observed high values. The SIB may represent the hatred of the body that has suffered abuse without rebelling, or, as Saint, "a way to punish a fault to exist or to inflict physical pain
cover the anguish of death." EMDR has been the challenge.
Keywords: Complex PTSD Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
198. Shapiro, F. (2011, November). L'EMDR, le traitement adaptatif de l'information et la conceptualisation de cas [EMDR, adaptive information processing and case conceptualization]. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 5(4), 51E-73E. doi:10.1891/1933-3196.5.4.E51.
Language: French
Format: Journal
LEMDR est une approche psychothérapeutique intégrative, centrée sur le client, qui met laccent sur le
système cérébral de traitement de linformation et sur les souvenirs dexpériences perturbantes en tant
que fondations des pathologies qui ne sont pas causées par un déficit ou une blessure organique. LEMDR
aborde les expériences qui contribuent aux conditions cliniques ainsi que celles qui sont nécessaires
pour accompagner le client vers un état de santé psychologique robuste. Larticle apporte une synthèse
de lhistoire, du développement et des recherches qui ont établi lEMDR en tant que traitement soutenu
empiriquement. Après lexplication du modèle de traitement adaptatif de linformation, un exemple de
cas approfondi illustre la conceptualisation de cas recommandée en EMDR et les huit phases du protocole.
Cette approche est utilisée pour traiter les souvenirs antérieurs qui sont à la base de la pathologie et
les situations présentes qui déclenchent le dysfonctionnement, tout en apportant les scénarios pour une
action future appropriée et les comportements permettant de combler les déficits développementaux et/
ou les lacunes dacquisition dhabiletés. Les bénéfices de lintégration de lEMDR avec les perspectives
de la systémique familiale en vue dapporter les effets thérapeutiques les plus complets sont décrits.
EMDR is an integrative, client-centered psychotherapy approach that emphasizes the brain's information processing system and memories of disturbing experiences as the bases of those pathologies not caused by organic deficit or insult. EMDR addresses the experiences that contribute to clinical conditions and those needed to bring the client to a robust state of psychological health. Overviews of the history, development, and research that have established EMDR as an empirically supported treatment are provided. Subsequent to an explanation of the adaptive information processing model, an extended case example is used to illustrate the recommended EMDR case conceptualization and eight phases of treatment. This approach is used to process the early memories that set the foundation for the pathology and the present situations that trigger the dysfunction, while providing templates for appropriate future action that incorporate the information and behaviors needed to overcome skill and/or developmental deficits. The benefits of integrating EMDR and family systems perspectives to provide the most comprehensive therapeutic effects are described.
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Mode Systemic Family Therapy Integrative Psychotherapy Memories
Accuracy Verified: Yes
199. Selvini, M. (2011, Settember). L'Impatto delle terapie del trauma e dell'EMDR sul modello sistemico familiare-individuale [The impact of EMDR treatment of trauma and the family systems model-independent]. Presentazione al Congresso EMDR Nazionale "Trauma e relazione, Roma, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Uno dei limiti di fondo del modello sistemico classico (si veda La pragmatica della comunicazione di Watzlawick, 1967, o Paradosso e contro paradosso, 1975, fino agli epigoni post-moderni) è dato dal semi-annullamento della dimensione individuale (la famosa scatola nera), tra cui come ovvia conseguenza quella dellelaborazione del trauma. Il movimento EMDR impatta così utilmente sui terapeuti sistemici nellaiutarli a riscoprire/approfondire/integrare i temi dellelaborazione/difesa della sofferenza e dei diversi tipi di personalità/funzionamento.
Le mie scuole da qualche anno stanno formando allEMDR tutti i docenti e tutti gli allievi del quarto anno: perché solo circa un terzo dei formati al primo livello utilizza poi effettivamente questa tecnica? Lo stiamo studiando con incontri a piccolo gruppo subito dopo i tre giorni del primo livello, appare infatti chiaro che chi non utilizza subito la tecnica non lo farà più.
One of the limitations of the underlying classical system model (see The pragmatics of communication of Watzlawick, 1967, or Paradox and counter paradox, 1975, until the post-modern successors) is given by the semi-annulment of the individual dimension (the famous black box ), including the drawing as an obvious consequence of trauma. The movement thus usefully EMDR impacts on systemic therapists in helping them to discover / learn / integrate the development issues / defense of the suffering and the different personality types / functions.
My schools a few years being trained EMDR all teachers and all pupils in the fourth year, because only about one third of the formats on the first level then actually uses this technique? We're studying with small group meetings in the three days immediately after the first level, it seems clear that those not using the technique just will not do it anymore.
Keywords: Family Systems
Accuracy Verified: Yes
200. Seijo, N. (2011, Julio). La distorsion de la imagen corporal en TCA y EMDR [The distortion of body image in eating disorders and EMDR]. En Aplicación de EMDR en el tratamiento de distintos trastornos (Francisca García Guerrero, Coordinadora). Simposio realizado en el IX Congreso Nacional de Psicología Clínica, San Sebastián, España.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Los trastornos de la conducta alimenticia (TCA), entre los cuales está la anorexia y la
bulimia nerviosas, constituyen un problema de salud emergente que tiene un fuerte
impacto en nuestra sociedad. La problemática de estos trastornos es tan variada y
multifactorial que exige una atención y actuación que incluya los aspectos clínicos,
familiares, pero también culturales, sociales y especialmente, educativos. Nos encontramos ante un síndrome diagnóstico de origen complejo y afectación multidimensional, cuyo tratamiento debe ser capaz de llegar desde la superficie al fondo de su etiología. Todo lo que nos han dicho que somos y como nos han dicho que somos se vincula a nuestra imagen, detrás de esto hay todo un significado que en las personas con TCA cobra una relevancia mayor porque se acaba convirtiendo en el centro de sus vidas alrededor de lo que giran, de lo que proyectan sus dolor, su falta de conexión con el mundo y en lo que se acaba convirtiendo en su mundo distorsionado. Los elementos de trabajo que aparecen en el tratamiento de personas con TCA son el deseo de delgadez, el control y la vergüenza, TCC, reacciones defensivas condicionadas, imagen corporal, dificultades de apego, maltrato
físico, sexual, negligencia, disociación, descontrol de los impulsos, TCA como anestesia emocional, automutilaciones, necesidad de límites, etiquetas, personaje, figura masculina de apego, familias disfuncionales, etc. (Quílez, 2009).
Los profesionales que trabajan con TCA disponen en el EMDR de un modelo
psicológico capaz de dar una respuesta eficaz a estos pacientes. El objetivo de esta
comunicación es el explicar como se puede trabajar con EMDR para poder tomar
conciencia de unos de las partes mas nucleares en el trabajo de los TCA como es la toma de conciencia del cuerpo real y llegar a la aceptación del mismo.
The feeding behavior disorders (ED), one of which is anorexia and
bulimia nervosa, are an emerging health problem that has a strong
impact on our society. The problem of these disorders is as varied and
multifactorial requiring attention and action, including the clinical,
family, but also cultural, social and especially educational. We are facing a syndrome diagnosis of complex origin and multidimensional impairment, its treatment should be able to reach from the surface to the bottom of its etiology. All you have told us that we are and how we have been told that we are linking our image, behind this there is a whole meaning that people with TCA charges a higher relevance because it ends up turning into the center of their lives around so they spin, what project their pain, their lack of connection to the world and when it eventually becomes distorted your world. Work items that appear in the treatment of patients with eating disorders are the desire for thinness, control and shame, TCC, conditioned defensive reactions, body image, attachment difficulties, abuse
physical, sexual, neglect, dissociation, poor impulse control, emotional eating disorders as anesthesia, self-mutilation, need for limits, labels, character, male figure of attachment, dysfunctional families, etc.. (Quílez, 2009).
Professionals working with eating disorders have the EMDR model psychologically able to respond effectively to these patients. The objective of this
communication is to explain how EMDR can work with in order to make awareness of some of the most nuclear parts of the TCA work as awareness of the real body and reach acceptance.
Keywords: Eating Disorders Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
201. Tofani, L. R. (2006). La terapia basata sull'adaptive information processing e la terapia familiare sistemica - Dalla compatibilita teorica all'integrazione opertiva [Adaptive information processing therapy and systemic family therapy - From theoretical compatibility to the beginning of integration]. In M. Balbo (a cura). EMDR: Uno strumento di dialogo fra le psicoterapie [EMDR: A tool for dialogue among the psychotherapies] 1e edizione, (pp. 277-306). Milano, Italy: McGraw-Hill.
Language: Italian
Format: Book Section
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing AIP Systemic Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
202. Baker, J. (2002, April 22). Lawrence therapists work with EMDR process to offer a different direction in healing. Lawrence, KS: Lawrence Journal-World.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
"They used it initially with Vietnam vets (suffering from
PTSD). We use it a lot now with sexual traumas. Now, the one
thing I really like about EMDR, if anybody is really stuck in
therapy, it can serve as a wonderful way to go in, try it and
see if you can get unstuck, even if you're not working with a
trauma," said Ed Bloch, a licensed specialist clinical social
Bloch and his wife, Jena Bloch, a licensed clinical marriage
family therapist, own the Life Enrichment Center, 5200 Bob
Billings Parkway.
Keywords: General Lawrence Overview
Accuracy Verified: Yes
203. Tofani, L. R. (2006, March). Le famiglie cosiddette multiproblematiche. Trauma e intervento integrato con EMDR [The so-called multiproblematic family. Trauma and intervention integrated with EMDR]. Terapia Familiare, 80, 35-59.
Language: Italian
Format: Journal
Famiglie multiproblematiche sono un obiettivo difficile per qualsiasi approccio terapeutico a causa della rilevanza delle esperienze traumatiche per tutti i membri della famiglia. Essi vengono sostituiti con maltrattamenti, uso di sostanze o altri comportamenti illeciti, abusi sessuali e il problema principale è quello di superare i danni di attaccamento disorganizzato e per interrompere il ciclo della violenza psicosociale e trascuratezza. Nell'esempio riportato, terapia familiare sistemi indirizzata alla realtà ecologica di queste famiglie è stato integrato con EMDR, un approccio metodologico specifico per traumi, e questo ha rafforzato i risultati attesi solo con la terapia familiare. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, tutti i diritti riservati)
Multiproblem families are a difficult target for any therapeutic approach because of the high relevance of traumatic experiences for all family members. They are overridden with maltreatment, substance use or other illegal behavior, sexual abuse and the main problem is to overcome damage from disorganized attachment and to interrupt the cycle of psychosocial violence and child neglect. In the example reported, family systems therapy addressed to the ecological reality of these families has been integrated with EMDR, a methodological approach specific for trauma, and this has strengthened the expected outcome using only family therapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Family Members Family Therapy Family Integrated Services Intervention Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
204. Robinson, N. S. (2012, June). Legacy informed EMDR: Promote positive and desensitize negative core beliefs stemming from transgenerational and cultural sources [Legado informado EMDR: Promover positivo y desensibilizar a las creencias negativas que se derivan de las fuentes principales transgeneracionales y cultural]. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Madrid, Spain.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Ancestral, familial and cultural factors often become embedded and can
lay the foundation of core negative beliefs and symptomatology. Legacy informed
EMDR introduces the idea that EMDR can be utilized to reconsolidate
transgenerational roots of symptomatology. The workshop outlines how to use
EMDR to: 1) promote a positive core belief by accessing legacy-based resources 2)
desensitize legacy-based maladaptive beliefs, traumatic events and emotional
baggage 3)help clients develop an affirming coherent life narrative. This
integrative approach is informed by a wide range of recent, notable researchers in
the fields of neurobiology, attachment, and family systems (Siegel,1999, 2010;
Main,1990; Boszormenyi-Nagy,1984; White, M. & Epston, D,1990).
The workshop addresses how to incorporate legacy informed work into the
standard 8-phase, 3-pronged protocol. Phase 1 includes an extended genogram. A
core positive cognition is elicited and a VOC is taken as part of goal setting. Legacy
based resources are developed for preparation and RDI. The standard protocol is
used to desensitize traumatic targets. Access to ancestral, familial and cultural
beliefs and information is gained with an EMDR time-line similar to that used in
Maureen Kitchurs Strategic Developmental Model (Kitchur, 2005).
Clinicians can complete a course of EMDR therapy by reconsolidating threads from
the distant past, remembered past, current being and future vision. Material often
emerges and is reprocessed relating to race, gender, disabilities, sexual orientation
and socio-economic dynamics as well as trauma and oppression. This legacy
workshop is practice oriented and is anecdotally based on the presenters clinical
Keywords: Core Beliefs Cultural Transgenerational
Accuracy Verified: Yes
205. Parrett, B. (1996, June). Legal abuse in family court/RX, EMDR. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Denver, CO.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Family Court Legal
Accuracy Verified: Yes
206. Lucena, R. (2011, 24 de Setembro). Livro aborda terapia contra traumas [Book covers therapy for trauma]. Tribuna do Norte. Retrieved from http://tribunadonorte.com.br/noticia/livro-aborda-terapia-contra-traumas/197067 on September 25, 2011.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Um assalto, um acidente de trânsito, a separação dos pais ou mesmo uma discussão grave entre familiares. Esses são alguns exemplos de eventos causadores de traumas que podem durar muitos anos. Dependendo do tamanho da dor psicológica, é preciso recorrer às psicoterapias e uso de medicamentos para aliviar o sofrimento. Porém, uma nova técnica promete ajudar pacientes a enfrentarem seus medos. Trata-se do "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing" (Dessensibilização e Reprocessamento por meio dos Movimentos Oculares), conhecida pela sigla EMDR. A terapia, descoberta nos Estados Unidos pela psicóloga Francine Shapiro, foi introduzida no Brasil, há seis anos, pela também psicóloga Esly Regina Souza de Carvalho que lança, hoje à noite, o livro "Curando a galera que mora lá dentro - Como o EMDR e as novas terapias de reprocessamento podem tratar nossos papéis internos".
An assault, a traffic accident, her parents' separation or even a serious discussion among family members. These are some examples of events that cause trauma that can last for many years. Depending on the size of psychological pain must rely on psychotherapy and medications to relieve suffering. However, a new technique promises to help patients cope with their fears. This is the "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing" (by Desensitization and Reprocessing Eye Movement), known by the acronym EMDR. The therapy was discovered in the United States by psychologist Francine Shapiro, was introduced in Brazil six years ago, the psychologist also Esly Regina Souza de Carvalho throws tonight, the book "Healing the people that lives there - How EMDR and new therapies can treat our reprocessing internal roles. " {Excerpt]
Accuracy Verified: Yes
207. Gilligan, S. (1996, June). Love in the face of violence: Self relations psychotherapy, Ericksonian, hypnosis, and EMDR. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Denver, CO.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Love in the face of violence - Definitions and premises. Webster's dictionary definition of violence: " 1) exertion of physical force
so as to injure or abuse; 2) intense, turbulent, or furious and often destructive
action or force. Webster's definition of trauma: "from Greek: to wound. to pierce; 1) an
injury to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent; surgeons traumatize a person
when they put a scalpel to skin a:nd wound them in surgery, 2) a disordered
psychic or behavioral state resulting from mental or emotional stress or physical
Keywords: Violence Eriksonian Hypnosis
Accuracy Verified: Yes
208. Gilligan, S. (1997, July). Love in the face of violence: Self-relations psychotherapy, Ericksonian hypnosis and EMDR. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, San Francisco, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Eriksonian Hypnosis Violence
Accuracy Verified: Yes
209. Bondarenko, A. F. (1997, January). Love trauma psychotherapy using EMDR: An analysis of three cases. EMDRIA Newsletter, 2(3), 13-14.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Most psychologists and psychotherapists practicing in the former Soviet Union (FSU) can be divided into two groups: the problems-oriented ones (who prefer to work in once of the counseling or psychotherapy fields, e.g., family psychotherapy, PTSD psychotherapy, etc.) and those who are technically oriented, i.e., prefer to work strictly with a definite psychotherapeutic paradigm, (behavioral, existential, etc.).
Keywords: Love
Accuracy Verified: Yes
210. Imbroinise, F. (2008, Novembre). LEMDR come mezzo di anamnesi e mezzo terapeutico nel servizio socio-psicologico nel reparto di pediatria di un ospedale [EMDR as a means of medical history and therapeutic tool in the service of socio-psychological in the pediatric ward of a hospital]. Poster presentato alApplicazioni Cliniche dell'EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Nel corso dell'anno 2007 sono affluiti al servizio socio-psicologico 652 bambini.
Il metodo EMDR è stato utilizzato come mezzo per tracciare il vissuto del paziente, nonché come metodologia di intervento per tutte le patologie ed i disturbi che i pazienti portavano. Sono stati trattati con lEMDR sia i pazienti interni al reparto e sia quelli esterni inviati dai medici pediatri presenti sul territorio.
Il nostro protocollo prevede unanamnesi dettagliata fatta insieme ad entrambi i genitori o tutori se il bambino è molto piccolo o con il bambino/ragazzo stesso se egli è capace di fornire le informazioni desiderate. Ciò si effettua poiché si i è convinti che il tracciato del vissuto con il metodo EMDR è una opportunità unica per la famiglia in quanto dà la possibilità di analizzare la vita familiare e le sue dinamiche nei minimi particolari e di prendere in considerazione i suoi modelli relazionali e affettivi dei quali non si è sempre coscienti. Successivamente se si considera utile o necessario , si stila un programma terapeutico in cui lEMDR viene presentato come metodo di trattamento per affrontare e risolvere le condizioni patologiche o di disagio che si presentano.
Questo approccio terapeutico si ritiene utile in quanto facilita la risoluzione sintomatologica e sviluppa una più consapevole visione delle dinamiche della propria famiglia. Un ulteriore effetto è quello di promuovere un maggiore benessere psicosociale per il paziente, fornendo un nuovo significato ai disordini somatici, ed aiutare la famiglia a comprendere e gestire in una maniera più funzionale i problemi del proprio figlio.
Questo poster descrive tutte le fasi dellintervento ed le patologie trattate nella nostro servizio con l utilizzo del metodo EMDR.
During the year 2007 has been injected into the socio-psychological service 652 children.
The EMDR method has been used as a means to track the experiences of the patient, as well as methods of intervention for all diseases and disorders that patients wore. Were treated with EMDR both inpatients and those outside the department and sent by pediatricians in the area.
Our protocol provides a detailed history taken together with both parents or guardians if the child is very small or the baby / child himself if he is able to provide the desired information. This is done because it is convinced that the path of living with the EMDR method is a unique opportunity for the family because it gives the possibility to analyze the family and its dynamics in detail and consider its relationship models affective and which has not always conscious. Then if we consider useful or necessary, draw up a treatment program in which EMDR is presented as a method of treatment to address and resolve the pathological condition or discomfort that occur.
This therapeutic approach is considered useful because it facilitates the resolution of symptoms and develop a more informed view of the dynamics of their family. Another effect is to promote greater psychosocial well-being for the patient, giving new meaning to somatic disorders, and help the family understand and manage in a more functional problems of their child.
This poster describes all phases of the disease and treated in our service 's use of the EMDR method.
Keywords: Children Pediatric Ward Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
211. Giannantonio, M. (2001, Ottobre). Leye movement desensitization and reprocessing (E.M.D.R.) negli adulti e adolescenti abusati sessualmente in età infantile [The eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in adults and adolescents sexually abused in childhood]. Congresso AIAMC, Palermo, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
LEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) nasce come
interevento elettivo nella terapia del Disturbo Post-traumatico da Stress
(PTSD) e, in particolar modo nelle fasi iniziali del suo consolidamento
clinico e teoretico, ha calibrato il proprio protocollo di intervento standard sul
PTSD generato da combattimenti bellici, catastrofi naturali e provocate
dalluomo. Labuso sessuale, soprattutto se avvenuto nellinfanzia, in modo
prolungato ed allinterno di un contesto familiare (ovvero il tipo di abuso
sessuale sul quale concentrerò ora la mia attenzione), è un tipo di evento
traumatico che può presentare caratteristiche peculiari: elementi dissociativi
da marcati ad assenti, alterazioni mnestiche e codifiche mnestiche statodipendenti,
massicci meccanismi di repressione operanti anche per decenni,
condizionamento negativo dellevoluzione del sistema comportamentale
dellattaccamento, presenza di memorie somatiche di difficile gestione da
parte del paziente, disturbi sessuali, difficoltà nellinstaurazione e nel
mantenimento della relazione terapeutica. Labuso sessuale intrafamiliare si
accompagna abitualmente alla trascuratezza emotiva ed alla violenza
psicologica, in alcuni casi anche a quella fisica. Di fronte ad un quadro
clinico così complesso (laddove la presenza di PTSD è semplicemente uno
dei possibili esiti psicopatologici, e con ogni probabilità non il più
frequente), lintervento con lEMDR richiede modificazioni rispetto al
protocollo standard di intervento per il PTSD ma, soprattutto, l'inserimento
all'interno di un intervento clinico di respiro decisamente più ampio rispetto
allimpiego di algoritmi terapeutici ridotti allessenziale. Il sottoscritto ritiene
che, al momento attuale, lo studio più approfondito sullargomento sia una
pubblicazione di Laurel Parnell del 1999. Personalmente, ed in modo
concorde con questultimo autore, ho verificato la notevole efficacia
nelloperare con l'EMDR - anche molto direttivamente - sulla storia di
attaccamento del paziente al fine di colmarne le falle evolutive o eliminare gli
ostacoli per il conseguimento di questo fondamentale obiettivo terapeutico.
The eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is born as
interevento elective in the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) and, especially in the early stages of its consolidation
clinical and theoretical, has calibrated their intervention protocols for the standard
PTSD generated by fighting wars, natural disasters and caused
man. Sexual abuse, especially if done in childhood, so
Prolonged and within a family context (ie the type of abuse
which focus on sex now my attention) is a type of event
trauma that may have special characteristics: elements dissociative
to be marked absent, changes in mnemonic and mnemonic encodings statodipendenti,
massive repression mechanisms operating for decades
negative evolution of behavioral conditioning system
attachment, presence of somatic memories of unmanageable
the patient's sexual problems, difficulty in establishing and
maintaining the therapeutic relationship. Sexual abuse is intrafamilial
usually accompanies the emotional neglect and violence
psychological, in some cases to physical. Faced with a framework
clinical as complex (where the presence of PTSD is simply a
possible outcomes of psychopathology, and probably not the most
frequent), intervention with EMDR requires changes compared to
standard protocol of intervention for PTSD but, more importantly, the inclusion
within a clinical intervention to breath much larger than
use of therapeutic algorithms reduced to essentials. My opinion
that, at present, more thorough study on the subject is a
Published by Laurel Parnell in 1999. Personally, and so
agreed with this page, I checked the remarkable effectiveness
in working with EMDR - very directly - on the history of
attachment of the patient in order to bridge the evolutionary gaps or eliminate
obstacles to achieving this important therapeutic target.
Keywords: Adolescents Adults Postttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Sexual Abuse
Accuracy Verified: Yes
212. Neunuebel, C. L. (2010, July). Making EMDR user friendly for Asians. Presentation at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Making EMDR User Friendly For Asians:
1. Training Asians in EMDR
Issues of confidentiality
Fears of being judged by colleagues
School systems in Asia being shame based
Shame in speaking about personal issues
Poor knowledge of own emotions
Issues of fate and karma
Need for Asian facilitators to be assertive with authority figures
Hesitancy of Asian trainees to ask questions
Western facilitators receive more compliance but need for Asian facilitators
Need for translated material to be in colloquial language
Need for Asian vignettes.
2. Practicing EMDR by Asian practitioners and for Asian clients:
Problems with extremes SUDs and VOC,
Clients struggle with emphasis on individual not family,
Loss of face for practitioner to use manual,
Most Asian clients have poor imaginative or visualization skills,
Physical sensations are more available than emotions,
Lack of anger at abusive family members and authority figures,
Issues of ghosts and superstitions.
3. Supervision of Asian EMD, Provide supervisees of own mistakes,
Providing supervision in countries where there are no consultants or facilitators,
Can provide Western supervisors-but best might be co-leading supervision with a local practitioner.
My material for this presentation has been developed over 13 years of using EMDR with Asian clients and from 10 years of
providing facilitation and supervision for EMDR trainees. Also my many years in Asia, speaking the languages and having
been partly raised by Chinese nannies, have given me an understanding of Asian values, family organization and taboos. I
would like this workshop to provide a springboard for discussions with the attendees in collecting other ides for making EMDR Asian friendly.
Keywords: Asians Practice Theory
Accuracy Verified: Yes
213. Arnstein, M. (1996, December). Marital therapy, EMDR, Herman's model of recovery from trauma: The journey of one woman and her family. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 17(4), 212-224.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Judith Herman delineates a 3-stage model of recovery from trauma: (1) Safety; (2) Remembrance and Mourning; (3) Reconnection. She criticises current treatment methods for their failure to make a difference in the "constrictive symptoms of numbing and social withdrawal...and marital, social and work problems do not necessarily improve." Family therapy has been criticised often for insufficient focus on emotion and general sensations. This case analysis will illustrate how these shortcomings can be successfully addressed with the use of marital counseling and EMDR. The use of multiple treatment approaches contributed to one client's resolution of recent trauma due to a car accident, of past crises due to marital infidelity and early childhood abuse, with significant changes for her in her current family as well as in her family of origin. Theoretical implications for "family therapy" are raised. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Adults Australians Case Report Child Abuse Family Therapy Females Marital Problems Motor Traffic Accidents Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Survivors Treatment Effectiveness
Accuracy Verified: Yes
214. Litt, B.K. (2008, September). The marriage of EMDR and ego state therapy in couples therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Phoenix, AZ.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Ego state conflict can frequently dominate relational patterns even in clients without a trauma history. Relational partners often have poor boundaries and share a mutual dependency characterized by blame and projection. This workshop will explore family dynamics that contribute to ego fragmentation and manifestations of interlocking ego state conflict in couples therapy. Participants will learn a model for EMDR-based assessment and treatment planning, be able to describe ego state manifestations in couples conflict, and learn how to manage ego states in the desensitization phase of processing.
Keywords: Couples Therapy Ego State Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
215. Greenwald, R., Lebeau, T. M., & Lemay, J. (2008, Mai). MASTR (Greenwald, 2005), un modèle de traitement pour jeunes avec des problèmes de conduite qui tient compte du trauma [The MASTR Protocol (Greenwald, 2005) is a treatment model for youths experiencing conduct problems with a trauma focused framework]. Présentation à la Conférence EMDR Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Language: French
Format: Conference
Le modèle «conte de fées» et la thérapie MASTR pour traiter les traumatismes chez les jeunes ont été développés par Dr. Ricky Greenwald. Il sagit dun protocole thérapeutique préparatoire pour faciliter lEMDR avec les préadolescents et adolescents. Ce modèle a permis dobtenir des résultats intéressants pour ce qui est de lintervention face à divers comportements problématiques, notamment les troubles de la conduite, lagression, la violence familiale, la maltraitance et labus de substances. Cette présentation propose un survol des éléments du cadre théorique, un résumé des résultats de recherche en appui au modèle et lenseignement
dhabiletés cliniques qui tiennent compte du trauma pour effectuer lévaluation et la planification du traitement. À laide dexercices pratiques, dune démonstration et dun extrait vidéo, les quatre premières séances seront
abordées : la prise de contact, lhistoire des traumas ou des pertes, le rêve davenir et le contrat.
The Fairy Tale Model and MASTR Protocol in the treatment of traumas in youths were both developed by Dr. Ricky Greenwald. Its a protocol designed to prepare for and to facilitate EMDR processing with pre-teens and teens. This approach provides interesting results with a wide array of problem behaviour: aggression, family
violence, substance abuse, etc. This workshops goal is to present the theoretical framework for this model, the results of studies supporting its use, as well as teaching clinical skills that take into account the trauma history when evaluating and planning for treatment. This workshop will focus on the first 4 sessions: contact history taking (trauma & losses) dreams for the future and the therapeutic contract. Practices, demonstrations and video excerpts will be provided.
Keywords: Adolescents Fairy Tale Model, MASTR Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
216. Moore, M. V. (2007). Medical family therapy. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 365-384). New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
The concept of treating the whole family spread into the medical field in the late 1960s, when William Doherty, a family therapist, and Macaran Baird, a family physician, developed a model for integrating family therapy practices with family medical care. They explained that their model grew out of a frustration with the "fragmented, individually oriented treatment of children's psychiatric disturbances" and stated that they created family therapy medicine as a response to this problem (Doherty & Baird, 1983, p. 1). This chapter discusses the work of medical doctors who apply the principles of psychosocial medicine and the work of psychotherapists who practice medical family therapy. Integration of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and family therapy is discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Family Family Therapy Interdisciplinary Treatment Approach Medical Family Therapy Medical Treatment (General) Models Psychosocial Medicine Whole Family
Accuracy Verified: Yes
217. Kannan, L. (2008, September). Meditation integrated EMDR as an effective technique for post trauma stress: An empirical study. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Phoenix, AZ.
Language: English
Format: Conference
It is essential to adapt EMDR to the culture specific complex demands of family trauma among Asian Indians. This presentation highlights empirical data on the effectiveness of an innovative technique i.e. Meditation Integrated EMDR (MIE) (Vipassana Mindfulness meditation + pranayama + EMDR) with those undergoing post trauma disorders after a family trauma. It introduces the participants to the theoretical basis and techniques of both MIE and EMDR, its adaptations and trains participants to apply to clients. The impact of therapy on SE, LOC, coping styles and overall QOL and their role as predictors of recovery is emphasized. Thus, participants gain a powerful strategy for the holistic treatment of familial trauma like divorce, infidelity, grief, domestic violence.
Keywords: Meditation Post Traumatic Stress
Accuracy Verified: Yes
218. Ruark, L. A. (1994, September 18). More than meets the eye: Word of new psychotherapy spreading, but some have doubts. Tulsa, OK: The Tulsa World, L1.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Catie McGoldrick, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tulsa, enthusiastically endorses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Keywords: Catie McGoldrick General Overview Tulsa
Accuracy Verified: Yes
219. Perez-Marin, M., & Molero-Zafra, M. (2008, June). Narrative family therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and adoption: Fostering interactions in clinical settings [Intermediate workshop]. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, London, England.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Narrative family therapy is the study of individuals, systems and the research on origins, development and
transmission of values, as well as their meaning, and influence on social dynamics. Using tales we could
symbolically represent an entity, both individual and collective, and express a personal identification, a family tie,
a community link or a socially recognized status or personal worth. Externalisation, in narrative family therapy, is
a process to get out from the person any element or quality that is transformed in some with entity. In
psychotherapy, externalising is the use of language to convert problems that affect person or family on to
independent entity. This transformation allows people to fight against them or to view them from a new
perspective. Externalisation technique thorough the metaphoric use of tales as external representation of family
entity and individuals worth inside the family system is applied in adoption cases. The objective here is to create
a link between the child history and the family history in order to cope with difficulties that children and families
find after adoption. We use tales inside the symbolic techniques that permits families work together with
meanings, individualism and cohesion within their members, and after adoption. We present some clinical cases
with families that have adopted a child. During the treatment we have combined EMDR and narrative family
therapy techniques in clinical interventions. Using them, we carried out an analysis of the therapeutic issues and
benefices of EMDR and narrative therapy in these family processes.
Keywords: Adoption Narrative Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
220. Prado-Gasco, V. J., Perez-Marin, M., & Molero-Zafra, M. (2010, July). Narrative family therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and adoption: An intervention protocol. Poster presented at the 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Australia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract: From the model of Narrative family therapy we use tales that could symbolically represent in therapy settings a person or a legal entity, both individual and collective, and which expresses a personal identification, a family tie, a community link or a socially recognized status or personal worth. Externalisation, in narrative family therapy, is a process to get out from the person any element or quality that is transformed in some with entity (White, 1991; White y Epston, 1993). In psychotherapy, externalising is the use of language to convert problems that affect the person or family on to an independent entity. This transformation allows people to fight against them or to view them from a new perspective. Externalisation technique through the metaphoric use of tales as external representation of family entity and individuals worth inside the family system is applied in children adoption cases. The objective here is not to fight against the external representation of the family. We use tales inside the symbolic techniques that permits families to work together with meanings, individualism and cohesion within their members, and after adoption. We present a therapeutic protocol that combined EMDR and narrative family therapy externalisation techniques. We expose in a format of clinical case report the therapeutic work with a family that have adopted a child who suffer of a simple phobia. Using the protocol we describe above we carried out an analysis of the therapeutic issues and benefices of EMDR and narrative therapy in these family processes. This protocol has been useful to manage the phobia symptoms and to improve the adoptive family identity and cohesion. The combined approach we describe could help adoptive families to understand and to interpret the meanings from the construction that family systems make of their own world and relieve psychological symptoms that children could present.
Keywords: Adoption Intervention Protocol Narrative Family Therapy Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
221. Willemsen, H., Chowdhury, U., & Briscall, L. (2002, October). Needle phobia in children: A discussion of aetiology and treatment options. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 7(4), 609-619. doi:10.1177/1359104502007004012.
Language: English
Format: Journal
In this article we review the current literature surrounding needle phobia, concentrating
on clinical symptoms, aetiology and treatment options. Clinical symptoms
include sudden increase in heart rate and blood pressure on exposure to needles
followed by an immediate slowing of the heart and decrease in blood pressure
(vasovagal reflex). The various schools of thought surrounding aetiology of this
condition include biological, psychological and psychodynamic theories. Treatment
options vary from simple education and reassurance to medication and
specific behavioural approaches. Consideration should be given to past trauma
associated with the phobia and relevant family factors. Careful clinical assessment
will not only identify the problem but will also help to indicate appropriate treatment
Keywords: Behavioural Therapy Needle Phobia Psychotherapy Trauma Vasovagal Reflex
Accuracy Verified: Yes
222. Bergmann, U. (2003, September). The neurobiology of EMDR: Recent insights and their contribution to the treatment of complex PTSD and dissociation. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Denver, CO. ;.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This presentation will explore the formation and consolidation of emotions and memory, various possible neural mechanisms of EMDR's treatment effects, with an emphasis on cerebellar mechanisms, and their direct relations to information processing and frontal lobe activation. Recent knowledge regarding Allan Schore's work on the orbitofrontal cortex and Steven Porge's work on the brainstem will be explored; with a major emphasis given to their implication for improved techniques to facilitate EMDR processing.
Keywords: Alan Schore Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Complex PTSD C-PTSD Neurobiology Dissociation
Accuracy Verified: Yes
223. Zanonato, A. S., & Carvalho, E. R. (2009, Dezembro). O uso do EMDR na terapia de casais e famílias [The use of EMDR in couples and family therapy]. Pensando Famílias, 13(2), 117-129.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Journal
Published by Domus - Centro de Terapia de Casal e Famila (Brazil)
O presente trabalho pretende mostrar a validade do EMDR como um instrumento útil em terapias de casais e família, quando experiencias traumáticas do passado estão dificultando o relacionamento entre seus membros. Ressaltam como essa abordagem tem-se mostrado eficaz no tratamento dos Transtornos de Estresse Pós-Traumáticos (TEPT) e em todas as disfunções dele decorrentes. Discutem o conceito de trauma e a forma como, junto com as vivências traumáticas, se mantêm inalteradas as memórias e as emoções a ela associadas, bem como as crenças negativas construídas a partir delas. As autoras relatam dois casos clínicos e lustram como esse recurso pode ser utilizado. Finalmente, consideram a importância da integração de diferentes teorias e técnicas por parte dos terapeutas contemporâneos para um atendimento mais eficaz de seus pacientes.
The present paper intends to show the validity of EMDR as a useful tool in the therapies of couples and families, when traumatic experiences from the past are making difficult the relationship between its members. It stands out how this approach has revealed efficient in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and associated dysfunctions. It talks over the concept of trauma and the way how, with traumatic experiences, the memories and the emotions connected to them as well as the negative beliefs created from the remain unchanged. The authors report two clinical vignettes and illustrate how this resource can be used. Finally, they take into account the importance of integrate different theories and approaches by contemporary therapist for a more efficient assistance of their patients.
Keywords: Couples Therapy Family Therapy Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
224. Becker-Fritz, T., Donovan, L., Heiman, M., Packwood, S., Peterson, G., Peck, B., & Huss, B. (2005, September). Open forum to share clinical uses of EMDR with child/adolescent population. Open forum at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Seattle, WA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Many clinicians who work with children and adolescents struggle with applying the basic protocol for EMDR for this population as well as focus on clinical issues that can be treated effectively with EMDR. It can feel overwhleming for the clinican to be creative within their own practice without support for what they are doing, or suggestions on other strategies that may be more effective. This conversation hour session, lasting 3 hours, will provide a panel of professionals from different fields of expertise to lead a discussion of clinical applications of EMDR when treating children and adolescents. The first topic will address how the EMDR protocol may need to be adjusted to accommodate the needs or limitations for children and adolescents. The second topic will focus on what specific developmental considerations need to be considered when using EMDR with attachment disorders as well as identifying guidelines and strategies for including the family in the EMDR process with this population. The final topic will address 2 commonly seen diagnoses of AD/HD and anxiety addressing the possible negative cognitions, resource installations, and cognitive interweaves that can be used when treating children or adolescents with EMDR to resolve the trauma issues when having these disorders. The members of the panel are current chairs of the EMDRIA Chld/Adolescent SIG who will share their expertise with the audience.
Keywords: Adolescents ADHD Anxiety Attachment Disorders Children Attention Deficit Hyperacitivty Disorder Developmental Considerations Open Forum
Accuracy Verified: Yes
225. Krom, M. (2012, Novembro). A origem das crenças em sua relação direta com os mitos pessoais e familiares [The origin of the belief in its direct relationship with personal myths and family]. In EMDR e visão sistêmica. Apresentação no II Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Diante da importância das crenças e resistências que se apresentam frente às mudanças que se fazem necessárias, encontram-se as crenças pessoais de profundas raízes psíquicas que necessitam ser trabalhadas. Que podem ser mais bem compreendidas, quando podemos aprofundar o olhar através das experiências de vida, e, estendê-lo ao contexto cultural e familiar de onde se originaram. Esta perspectiva pretende colaborar para identificar as várias crenças que se associam e se assemelham, fortalecendo-se mutuamente tanto nos aspectos nocivos e desorganizadores, como nos positivos e organizadores que atuam poderosamente na vida das pessoas. Pode-se oferecer também uma vivência aos participantes, de encontro com alguns elementos de seus mitos e de suas crenças pessoais.
Given the importance of beliefs and resistances that arise before the changes that are necessary, are the personal beliefs of deep psychic roots that need to be worked on. What can be better understood when we look deeper through the experiences of life, and extend it to family and cultural context from which they came. This approach intends to collaborate to identify the various beliefs that associate and resemble, strengthening one another in ways both harmful and disruptive, as well as positive and organizers who work powerfully in people's lives. You can also offer an experience for participants, meeting with some elements of their myths and their personal beliefs.
Keywords: Beliefs Myths Origin
Accuracy Verified: Yes
226. Martin, A. J. (2003). Peaceful heart: A woman's journey of healing. Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company.
Language: English
Format: Book
Although I had a relatively happy childhood, I picked up many unspoken messages from the people around me about my physical body and my self-worth. At age 17, I was brutally beaten and raped in my family home. Based upon these often misinterpreted messages and the brutal attack on my body and soul, I created an existence out of eating disorders, depression, rage, and distrust. Now it was time to deal with the emotions I had pushed down inside of myself. It has taken months of EMDR therapy and a low dosage of anti-depressant drugs, but now I'm well on my way. Happiness is right around the corner.This book describes my journey from the depths of despair, through the twisted pathways of my past, and into my future, proving that life can and should be more than mere survival. Life is to be treasured and lived -- and shared. The reader will walk through my struggles and successes, hopefully allowing her (or him) to feel the pain of the struggles as well as the thrill of successes. I hope my story gives at least one other victim (or as I now prefer to call myself "survivor") hope for her own future, or assistance in healing her own heart. I hope it gives one family member or good friend a better understanding of what his or her loved one might be going through. I hope it shows one parent how a critical comment said in jest can be taken by a child as gospel. I hope it shows one mother that how she treats herself, whether with words or by actions, will be mirrored in her daughter. I hope it shows one father that the remarks he makes about women in front of his daughter will shape her views of herself as she becomes a woman. But mostly, I want this book to help one person go through the healing process a little easier. That is my hope. [Adapted from Text, pp. viii-ix] [Pilots]
Keywords: Adults Americans Effects Females Personal Narrative Rape Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
227. Zighetti, M. (2011, Settembre). Perché a noi terapeuti familiari piace tanto l'EMDR [Why we family therapists love EMDR so much]. Presentazione ad uno Convegno Scuola Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Milano, Italia .
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Keywords: Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
228. Radke, M. (2002, June). A perfect complement: EMDR and internal family systems. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, San Diego, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR and the Internal Family System (IFS) model share a common treatment approach and their integration significantly increases the effectiveness of both. The workshop will provide a brief overview of the central IFS components. It will then demonstrate how IFS "parts" work can facilitate developing target events and memories, cognitions, feelings, and sensations, plus assist with reducing client resistance and looping. The IFS idea of "self leadership" will give a new context for "resource installation" and "cognitive interweave." A case example of abandonment by self or family will show how IFS enhances the timing and content of EMDR protocol.
Keywords: IFS Internal Family Systems
Accuracy Verified: Yes
229. Park, S.-C. (2011, February). Plasma levels of neurotrophic factors predict responses to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in complex posttraumatic stress disorder. Hanyang University, Graduate School, Seoul, Korea.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
Complex PTSD is a proposed diagnosis that describes psychological sequelae of survivors with prolonged, repeated, and interpersonal trauma, including childhood physical abuse, incest, and other forms of family violence (Herman, 1992). The diagnostic criteria for complex PTSD are composed of the functional alterations in six areas: (1) regulation of affect and impulses; (2) attention or consciousness; (3) self-perception; (4) relations with others; (5) somatization; and (6) system of meaning (Pelcovitz et al., 1997). Recently, a morphometric study showed that patients with childhood abuse-related complex PTSD had more extensive involvements of neural substrates (reduced anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal volumes) than those with classical PTSD (Thomaes et al., 2009). Changes in the neural substrates of patients with complex PTSD may reflect the relationship, established in critical developmental phases, between traumatic experiences and neurobiological factors.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an integrative and comprehensive psychotherapy that contains various effective elements of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and body-centered therapies (Shapiro and Maxfield, 2002). It was originally developed to resolve symptoms of psychic trauma, and has been shown to be highly effective in reducing the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Bradely et al., 2005; van der Kolk et al., 2007). It has been also proposed as a rapid and effective application for treating the core symptoms of complex PTSD (Korn and Leeds, 2002; Kim and Choi, 2004; Kim, 2003). Thus, the investigation of the effects of treatment of complex PTSD by EMDR may reveal aspects of neurobehavioral plasticity dependent on neurotrophic factors.
Keywords: Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Complex PTSD C-PTSD Neurotrophic Factors Plasma Levels
Accuracy Verified: Yes
230. Daniel, J. (2000). Play therapy and EMDR. The Childrens Group Association Newsletter. Retrieved from http://www.cgta.net/newsletters/play_therapy.html November 16, 2011.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Children vary greatly in their ability to tolerate focusing on the problem. The wise EMDR therapist has various ways of approaching a traumatic memory or a current day problem to fit the tolerance level of the client. EMDR and the process of bilateral stimulation to address problematic material is one method of speeding up therapeutic work with children. However, when using bilateral stimulation with children I am simultaneously using my training as a family systems therapist, and the various play therapy strategies that were the backbone of my work with children before I learned EMDR or other alternative therapies. In a way, EMDR and the sand tray saved my professional life. In my first year of practice after my family therapy post-graduate training, I got a job at a family therapy clinic in Louisville, Kentucky. I was assigned to handle all referrals that came to the agency through a Victim Assistance grant. All of these were cases in which a child had been victim of some crime, and the majority were victims of abuse from some one other than a family member. You can imagine the population. Families who had found that a neighbor or teacher had abused their child were common. Both child and family were traumatized. My family therapy skills were good. But in addition to them I needed two things: a better way for children to communicate their feelings and a way to help both adults and children reduce the intensity of emotions around the trauma they had been through. Just (Continued from page 1) when I was beginning to feel that I was not up to the job, I learned EMDR. With this wonderful knowledge, I found I could help both children and adults move beyond the trauma and regain their grasp on the present moment, their strengths and their security. A deepening understanding of play therapy provided the additional communication tools I needed. Since Then I have never looked back, and find that our field is continually generating new perspectives and more efficient tools for us to use.
Keywords: Children Play Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
231. Klaff, F. (2002, June). Portrait of a family: Fitting EMDR to the family and child. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, San Diego, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
What is particularly unique is that this presenter has documented verbatim
scripts and filmed sessions of two families over a time span covering 8
years. It is possible from this data to track recurring themes and issues
and demonstrate how EMDR was helpful to the recipients over time.
Presented are practical and creative ways of incorporating parents into
treatment and viewing the treatment of the child in a broad context. It
demonstrates how to make actual systemic maneuvers during an EMDR session,
how to work with the individual on systemic family issues and how to follow up
EMDR sessions with further family work.
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
232. Klaff, F. (2005, September). Practical EMDR with children and adolescents: An integrative family systems approach. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Seattle, WA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This workshop offers creative and practical applications for integrating
EMDR into child, adolescent and family systems therapy. Ways to introduce
EMDR, uncover targets, adapt cognitive interweave to different ages and
stages of development and assess and utilize parental involvement will be
taught. Problems, such as resistance, family complexities and chronic versus
crisis problems, will be addressed. Enhancement skills including affect
management and ego strengthening will be taught. The how-to's of play, art,
music and stories as vehicles for creatively using EMDR will be demonstrated.
Cases involving ADHD, adoption, cutting, divorce, sexual abuse and other
traumas will be illustrated with videos, scripts and roleplay. Dr. Klaff is
known far her lively presentations, creativity and humor.
Keywords: Adolescents Children Integrative Family Systems Approach
Accuracy Verified: Yes
233. Nurse, R. (1996, Summer). Practice: Clinical notebook--Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A stealth-like approach to family of origin issues. The Family Psychologist, 12(3), 17-19.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
This newsletter discusses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an emerging psychotherapeutic method. Topics include: research on EMDR, a symposium on EMDR, the ethics of training with EMDR, the process of EMDR, training in EMDR, and a new resource article on EMDR.
Keywords: Psychotherapeutic Techniques
Accuracy Verified: Yes
234. Stevens, P. (2000, July). Practicing within our competence: New techniques create new dilemmas. Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 8(3), 278-280.
Language: English
Format: Journal
This article focuses on the ethical and legal aspects of family therapy students' use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with clients. Furthermore, the article discusses the ethical necessity for clinicians and supervisors to practice within the limits of their competency. EMDR is a particularly excellent example because of the unknown mechanisms at work to create change in clients. Therefore, there is no common language or knowledge base that supports the use and supervision of EMDR in the same way that practicing or supervising a variety of "traditional talk" counseling techniques might be appropriate without specialized training. The majority of supervisors of students and practicing clinicians were trained in variety of theoretical orientations. The training experience is most certainly one in which the training facility and the supervisors want to encourage learning new and helpful techniques for facilitating change with the clients. It is incumbent on the facility to require the appropriate level of training and experience before students venture into new techniques.; (AN 3350110)(Ebsco)
Keywords: Legal Processes Professional Ethics Professional Specialization Professional Supervision Psychotherapeutic Techniques Therapist Trainees
Accuracy Verified: Yes
235. Bender, S. S., & Britt, V. (2000, April). Present in the past: Genograms, family themes & EMDR. Presentation at the New Jersey EMDR Internaional Association Semi-annual meeting, Piscataway, NJ.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Accuracy Verified: Yes
236. Guettler, K. (2004, June). A preverbal trauma mastered by dynamic psycho-therapy and EMDR. In psychodynamics and EMDR (B. Lilieblad, Chair). Symposium conducted at the EMDR Europe Association annual meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
Language: English
Format: Conference
A special variety of dynamic therapy is presented which was successfully
combined with EMDR. A new diagnostic category is tentatively proposed.
A man in his twenties, successful in studies and in political and welfare
organizations, managed his life by intellectual consideration but with hardly any
emotional assessment being at a loss when confronted with demands for a personal
He disliked his lack of integrity and indecision which he liberated himself
from during the initial three years of therapy in so far as friends and societies were
concerned. However, all his intimate relations kept breaking up. He could not account
for why and in this context he appeared to be alexithym.
When the partner left him it was a total surprise to him, he got very upset in a
diffuse way and quite bewildered. At some occasions he got regressive spells of
yelling, crying and struggling. They seemed to be flashbacks and not a hysterical
acting out.
As a trauma might be an etiological factor I proposed EMDR and he accepted
to try it. During four EMDR-sessions memories with intense emotional involvement
appeared. Altogether the material made me venture a construction of him as a baby
yelling and kicking in desperate need for a mother who kept being absent. Shortly
afterwards he entered a relation that was satisfying to both him and his partner. The
therapy was terminated. In a follow up two years later the relation was still good and
he told me that the construction had made him grasp his life-history.
A prerequisite for the EMDR-sessions and their effect was the three years of
psychotherapy with the focusing of his central problem, but the liberation from this
problem could not have been reached without EMDR -at least not in such a short
Keywords: Preverbal Trauma Primary Repression Repetition-Compulsion Symposium Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
237. Castello, A. L. G. (2012, Novembro). Processamento das experiências traumáticas parentais intergeracionais através do EMDR [Processing intergenerational trauma with EMDR]. In comunicações de pesquisa. Apresentação no II Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Este trabalho foi realizado numa Clínica Pediátrica, CLIAP, em São Paulo, Brasil, com 128 pais na idade de 28 a 56 anos, numa amostra de 2.560 atendimentos individuais, sendo 20 atendimentos para cada pai. Estes pais vieram para tratamento psicológico por intermédio do pediatra da clínica com queixas de dificuldades na condução do papel parental. Foram utilizados 2560 protocolos de EMDR individual com os pais. Objetivos: Este trabalho é o início de um trabalho de pesquisa com EMDR com pais, onde a técnica é utilizada como articulação metodológica no trabalho terapêutico para processamento das experiências traumáticas vivenciadas pelos pais em suas famílias de origem nas diversas situações de vida familiar. É um trabalho que vem sendo realizado desde 2007 e será instrumento de Pós-Doutorado da autora a partir do ano de 2013. Os atendimentos são individuais com EMDR e os pais se submetem a 20 sessões de protocolos adaptados de EMDR. Resultados: Durante o trabalho acontece o processamento das experiências traumáticas vivenciadas pelos pais em suas famílias de origem, onde ocorrem a redefinição do papel parental durante as sessões de EMDR. Palavras-chave: pais; experiências traumáticas; EMDR.
This work was performed in a Pediatric Clinic, CLIAP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with 128 parents at age 28-56 years, a sample of 2,560 individual visits, 20 visits for each parent. These parents came to psychological treatment through the pediatric clinic with complaints of difficulties in conducting the parental role. 2560 were used EMDR protocols with individual parents. Objectives: This study is the beginning of a research work with EMDR with parents, where the technique is used as methodological articulation in therapeutic work for processing of traumatic experiences experienced by parents in their families of origin in the different situations of family life. It is a work that has been performed since 2007 and will instrument Postdoctoral the author from the year 2013. Services are individual EMDR and parents undergo 20 sessions of EMDR protocol adapted. Results: During the processing of the work happens traumatic experiences experienced by parents in their families of origin, where there are redefining the parental role during sessions of EMDR. Keywords: parents; traumatic experiences, EMDR.
Keywords: Parents Traumatic Experiences
Accuracy Verified: Yes
238. Pocock, D. (2011, November). The promise of EMDR in family and systemic psychotherapy: A clinical complement to Field and Cottrell. Journal of Family Therapy, 33(4), 389-399. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6427.2011.00547.x.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Annalisa Field and David Cottrell's careful and balanced summary of the current state of evidence of the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with children and adolescents is to be welcomed. They conclude that there is, despite an overall lack of good quality studies, some encouraging emerging evidence. They set out a future scenario for development in which these hopeful indications may be sufficient to convince clinicians to train and consider using EMDR in practice. That may in turn lead to more people publishing the results of their nascent practice, and greater availability of therapists would enable larger scale randomized controlled studies to be designed and carried out. In this clinical addendum I seek to complement Field and Cottrell's sense of promise by setting out ways in which EMDR has become incorporated in my systemic psychotherapy practice during the last 3 years.
Keywords: Integration Psychotherapy Systems Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
239. Tausch, R. (2007, Spring). Promoting health: Challenges for person-centered communication in psychotherapy, counseling and human relationships in daily life. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 6(1), 1-13. doi:10.1080/14779757.2007.9688424.
Language: English
Format: Journal
For person-centered psychotherapy and counseling to be scientifically acknowledged and accepted by public health services, the following are required: (a) more empirical research on the effectiveness of person-centered therapy for different diagnostic categories (ICD-10) and counseling modes (group, family, health-related counseling); (b) incorporation of alternative interventions to increase the effectiveness of short-term person-centered psychotherapy consistent with the approach and the client-centered behavior of the therapist, such as having patients choose their therapists, providing written information on stress reduction and self-help, teaching daily relaxation exercises, using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) with minor anxiety, and suggesting homework assignments; (c) improvement of the therapist-patient relationship via regular written feedback from the patient for the therapist, reflections that incorporate cognitions and emotions in proportion to clients' expressions, and active, intensive (non-directive) efforts by the therapist to improve the therapeutic relationship; and (d) promotion of person-centered behaviors by people in daily situations and relationships outside the therapeutic setting (e.g., teachers, parents, partners). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Client Centered Therapy Counseling Interpersonal Relationships Person-Centered Therapy Psychotherapeutic Techniques
Accuracy Verified: Yes
240. Robredo, J., & Gordillo, M. (2010, Abril). Protocolo de tratamiento breve para menores expuestos a situaciones de violencia de género familiar [Brief treatment protocol for children exposed to domestic violence situations familiar]. In Pautas de Intervención con menores infractores y situaciones de violencia de género. Simposio realizado en el Congreso Internacional sobre Avances en Tratamientos Psicológicos, Granada, Spain .
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
El Instituto de Psicotrauma de Alicante y los Servicios Sociales del Ayuntamiento
de San Juan, aplican desde 2008 un protocolo de intervención breve
para menores expuestos a violencia de género, basado en las técnicas
de desensibilización y reprocesamiento a través del movimiento de los ojos,
EMDR© (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
Los resultados obtenidos con 28 menores de 4 a 12 años indican una
desaparición de los cuadros clínicos de estrés postraumático y depresión,
la remisión de los problemas de conducta concomitantes (desobediencia,
agresividad) y una mejora del vínculo afectivo con la madre.
El protocolo de intervención consta de 4 fases: evaluación, tratamiento,
prevención de recaídas y seguimiento. La evaluación se realiza en 2 sesiones,
una con la madre y otra con su hij@. Consta de sendas entrevistas
clínicas y la administración de la Escala de Ansiedad Manifiesta en Niños
(CMAS-R), la Escala de Gravedad de Síntomas del Estrés Postraumático y
el Test del Dibujo de la Familia (niñ@s menores de 6 años). El tratamiento
consiste en la aplicación de técnicas de EMDR a lo largo de 7 sesiones trabajando
con los recuerdos traumáticos del menor asociados a la violencia
vivida en la familia. Las 2 últimas sesiones se hacen junto con la madre,
trabajando escenas específicamente relacionadas con la figura del maltratador.
La prevención de recaídas se realiza en 1 sesión con la madre y el/la
niñ@, y se trabajan, también con EMDR, situaciones probables de su futuro,
como pueden ser encuentros con el padre. Al mes de seguimiento se volvieron
a realizar las entrevistas y a pasar los tests de evaluación. El 100% de
los menores atendidos experimentaron la remisión de sus síntomas de estrés
postraumático y en el 80% de los casos desaparecieron sus problemas
de conducta en el entorno familiar y escolar.
Psychotrauma Institute of Alicante and the Social Services of the City
San Juan, applied since 2008, a brief intervention protocol
for children exposed to domestic violence, based on the techniques
desensitization and reprocessing through movement of the eyes,
© EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
The results obtained with 28 kids from 4 to 12 years indicate a
disappearance of the clinical symptoms of PTSD and depression,
remission of concomitant behavior problems (disobedience,
aggression) and improved bonding with the mother.
The intervention protocol consists of four phases: assessment, treatment,
relapse prevention and monitoring. The evaluation is done in two sessions,
with each other with their mother and hij @. It consists of individual interviews
clinical and management Manifest Anxiety Scale in Children
(CMAS-R), the Symptom Severity Scale and Posttraumatic Stress
Drawing Test Family (children under 6 s). treatment
involves the application of techniques EMDR 7 along working sessions
with the minor traumatic memories associated with violence
experienced domestically. The last 2 sessions are done with the mother,
scenes work specifically related to the figure of the perpetrator.
Relapse prevention is done in one session with the mother and / the
Nin @, and worked also with EMDR, probable future situations,
such as meetings with the father. One month after they became
to conduct interviews and assessment tests pass. 100%
treated children experienced a remission of their symptoms of stress
posttraumatic and in 80% of cases their problems disappeared
behavior in the family and school environment.
Keywords: Children Domestic Violence
Accuracy Verified: Yes
241. Bruck, N. R. V. (2007, March). A psicologia das emergências: Um estudo sobre angústia pública e o dramático cotidiano do trauma [The psychology of emergencies: A survey of public angst and dramatic daily life of trauma]. Pontifica Universidade Catolica Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Programa De Pos-Graduacao Em Psicologia Doutorado Em Psicologia, Porto Alegre.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
O assunto trauma vem adquirindo novos significados, considerando principalmente
acontecimentos sociais recentes, sejam eventos adversos, catástrofes, desastres,
sejam as situações-limite vividas pelas pessoas no cotidiano urbano. A psicologia
das emergências estuda o comportamento das pessoas nos acidentes e desastres
desde uma ação preventiva até o pós-trauma e, se for o caso, subsidia intervenções
de compreensão, apoio e superação do trauma às vítimas e profissionais do SAMU.
O assunto se estende às questões que vão desde a experiência pessoal do trauma
até os eventos adversos provocados por calamidades, sejam estas naturais e/ou
provocadas pelo homem. A psicologia das emergências é um tema de angústia
pública, sentimento difuso de mal-estar que se origina dos acontecimentos públicos
traumáticos, chamados estressores, tais como os acidentes de trânsito com vítima,
assim como os provenientes das demais situações limites de toda a violência
urbana. O trauma é uma experiência que explode a capacidade de suportar um
revés, traz a perda de sentido, desorganização corporal e paralisação da
consciência temporal, pode deixar marcas que influenciam a criatividade e a
motivação para a vida. Os objetivos nos primeiros auxílios psicológicos são de aliviar
as manifestações sintomáticas e o sofrimento, reduzindo os sentimentos de
anormalidade e de enfermidade. Um dos objetivos é a familiarização com temas
considerados complexos e muitas vezes distantes das discussões sobre trauma
psicológico, sendo que o problema da pesquisa é a compreensão da psicologia das
emergências e como colocá-la em prática. Os autores mais utilizados são Edgar
Morin, Alfredo Moffatt, Serge Moscovici, Gilles Deleuze e Michel Foucault, dentre
outros. São abordados os temas do não-reducionismo, da epistemologia de si
mesmo e da relação da Teoria das Representações Sociais com o EMDR
(dessensibilização e reprocessamento através de movimentos oculares). O método
desta pesquisa, com suporte na observação participante refere às questões da
complexidade, análise multirreferencial e de implicação. As técnicas mais utilizadas
foram entrevistas, grupos focais-histórias significativas e análise documental. É
indicado, como atitudes favoráveis pensar não a partir de algo, mas, sobretudo sobre
algo e que para mudar o modo de agir torna-se necessário modificar a imagem que
uma pessoa tenha de si próprio. Como conclusões da pesquisa, observou-se: que
as pessoas acidentadas trazem outros acontecimentos considerados difíceis junto
com o depoimento sobre o acidente, como situações de luto e de sofrimento com
familiares; que o estresse pós-traumático não é uma conseqüência inevitável do
trauma; que não há nenhuma orientação, ou rotina, nas missões de socorros e nos
documentos oficiais do SAMU sobre o tema psicologia das emergências. Também
são indicadas considerações finais sobre os temas da Síndrome de Burnout, sobre a
influência da instituição no cotidiano dos atendimentos, sobre a relação da clínica
com a psicologia social.
The subject of "trauma" has acquired new meanings, especially considering
recent social events, are adverse events, catastrophes, disasters,
are the extreme situations experienced by people in urban daily life. Psychology
emergencies studies the behavior of people in accidents and disasters
from preventive action to post-trauma and, if necessary, subsidize interventions
understanding, support and overcoming the trauma victim and professional SAMU.
The subject extends to issues ranging from the personal experience of trauma
to adverse events caused by disasters, whether natural and / or
manmade. The psychology of emergencies is a topic of anguish
public diffuse feeling of uneasiness that stems from public events
traumatic, called stressors, such as traffic accidents with victims,
as well as from the other extreme edge of all violence
urban. Trauma is an experience that explodes the ability to support a
setback, brings loss of meaning, and paralysis of body clutter
temporal awareness, can leave marks that influence creativity and
motivation for life. The goals in psychological first aid are to relieve
symptomatic manifestations and suffering, reducing feelings of
abnormality and disease. One goal is to become familiar with issues
as complex and often distant from the discussions on trauma
psychological, and the research problem is understanding the psychology of
emergencies and how to put it into practice. The authors are more used Edgar
Morin, Alfredo Moffatt, Serge Moscovici, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, among
others. Issues are addressed in the non-reductionism, the epistemology of self
and even the relationship of the Theory of Representations to EMDR
(Desensitization and reprocessing through eye movements). The method
this research, supported in participant observation matters relating to
complex, multi-referential analysis and implication. The most used techniques
were interviews, focus groups, "meaningful stories and documentary analysis. It
indicated as positive attitudes to think not from something, but mainly on
something and to change the mode of action becomes necessary to modify the image
a person has of himself. As the survey findings revealed the following: that
rugged people bring other events to be difficult with
with testimony about the accident, as situations of grief and suffering with
family, whereas the post-traumatic stress is not an inevitable consequence of
trauma, there is no guidance, or routine tasks in the relief and
SAMU official documents on the subject of psychology emergencies. Also
concluding remarks are given on the topics of the Burnout on the
influence the institution in the routine of care, about the relationship of clinical
with social psychology.
Keywords: Emergency Treatment Postrraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Social Psychology Stress
Accuracy Verified: Yes
242. Maslovaric, G., & Formenti, L. (2008, Novembre). Psicologia dellEmergenza e EMDR: sinergia ed integrazione. Unesperienza sul campo, il caso di Viggiù [Psychology of the emergency and EMDR: Synergy and integration. Experience in the field, the case of Viggiù]. Presentazione Le applicazioni cliniche del EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Negli ultimi 30 anni abbiamo assistito ad un crescente interesse e sviluppo della Psicologia dellEmergenza. Nel 1983 Mitchell e collaboratori hanno strutturato un programma sistematico e globale di gestione della crisi (Critical Incident Stress Management). LEMDR integra, orienta e aumenta lefficacia degli interventi psicologici nei contesti demergenza. Allinterno di questo quadro teorico di riferimento è stato progettato e implementato lintervento di supporto psico-sociale a seguito dellincidente stradale del 20 gennaio 2008 avvenuto a Viggiù (VA). Lincidente Critico, avvenuto durante il rientro da una festa di paese sotto gli occhi di centinaia di persone, ha comportato 13 feriti con ospedalizzazioni e conseguenze mediche di differenti livelli di gravità e il decesso di una ragazza di 14 anni. I destinatari di tale intervento, commissionato e concordato con lamministrazione comunale di Viggiù, sono stati: le vittime primarie dellincidente, i loro familiari, gli operatori dellemergenza e tutta la comunità coinvolta nel tragico evento. In base al livello di traumatizzazione delle vittime (Taylor et al.) e al timing dellintervento sono state utilizzate diverse tecniche dintervento quali: EMDR, primo soccorso psicologico, incontri psico-educazionali e Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. Le sessioni EMDR hanno rappresentato il cuore dellintervento con le vittime primarie e i loro familiari. Il timing seguito per tali sessioni è stato il seguente:
1. due settimane dallIncidente Critico: Valutazione testistica Psicodiagnostica (SCID I e IES-R) Posto al Sicuro, psicoeducazione;
2. un mese: 2-3 sessioni EMDR sul target più disturbante rispetto allIncidente; Valutazione testistica;
3. 3 mesi: 2-3 sessioni EMDR sui trigger presenti e sul futuro; valutazione testistica.
Over the past 30 years we have witnessed a growing interest and development of Psychology emergency. In 1983, Mitchell and colleagues have a structured and systematic program
Comprehensive Crisis Management (Critical Incident Stress Management). EMDR integrates, directs and increases the effectiveness of psychological interventions in emergency contexts. Within this theoretical framework has been designed and implemented the intervention of psychosocial support Social following the road January 20, 2008 occurred in Viggiù (VA). The incident Critically, during the return from a village festival in the sight of hundreds of people, resulted in 13 hospitalizations and injuries with medical consequences of different levels of severity and
death of a girl of 14 years. The recipients of the action commissioned and agreed with the municipal administration of Viggiù, were: the primary victims of the accident, their family members, emergency workers and the whole community involved in the tragic event. Based the level of trauma victims (Taylor et al.) and the timing of the intervention were used different techniques
intervention such as EMDR, psychological first aid, psycho-educational meetings and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. EMDR sessions have represented the heart surgery with the primary victims and their families. The timing for follow these sessions was as follows: 1. two weeks of the Accident Critical: Guest testistica Psicodiagnostica (SCID I and IES-R) safe place, psychoeducation; 2. month: 2-3 EMDR sessions on the target more disturbing than the accident; Guest testistica; 3. 3 months: 2-3 sessions EMDR triggers present and future; evaluation testistica.
Keywords: Emergency Intervention
Accuracy Verified: Yes
243. Monticelli, M. L. (2008, Novembre). Psicoterapia cognitivo costruttivista e EMDR integrati: verso unevoluzione mente-corpo consapevole e collettiva [Cognitive constructivist EMDR integrated into development mind-body awareness and collective]. Poster presentato al Applicazioni Cliniche dell'EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia.
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
I limiti mentali autoimposti acquisiti da copioni familiari reiterati in età evolutiva e da modelli operativi interiori acquisiti dalle autorità societarie attraverso mezzi di comunicazione di massa e regole educativo-lavorative, inducono percentuali sempre più rilevanti della popolazione europea alla vulnerabilità psicopatologica. Lesordio delle sintomatologie psichiche e somatiche di varia entità, avviene già in fasi precoci, nella primissima infanzia e spesso già nelle fasi prenatali, e il limite di età tende percentualmente a essere sempre più sensibile fin dal primo mese di vita. In età scolare si manifestano situazioni comportamentali quali il cosiddetto bullismo e fenomeni con campionature rilevanti di sindromi ipercinetiche con deficit attentivo e disturbi del-lapprendimento. In adolescenza il contesto si complica e gli attacchi di panico, le sindromi depressive e i disturbi alimentari psicogeni dilagano, fino allesordio di disturbi post-traumatici da stress che si incrementano in seguito alle difficili scelte di orientamento universitario o lavorativo. La vulnerabilità delletà adulta si manifesta con disturbi somatoformi di diversa natura, disturbi psicocardiologici, sindromi ansioso-depressive, attacchi di panico, disturbi di coppia e relazionali, per citare i più frequenti e limitandomi solo ad accennare lesistenza della molteplicità di disturbi iatrogeni. In tali soggetti, la consapevolezza di essere indotti in stati di shock che incrementano molteplici disturbi somatoformi e psicopatologici è praticamente assente. Essi, come pazienti, si rivolgono agli specialisti in ambito sanitario con la convinzione, spesso indotta da propagande dei mass-media, che tutto sia solo genetico, e vada "curato" con farmaci per lunghi periodi se non per tutta la vita. Anche da parte degli operatori sanitari vi sono ampie aree di inadeguatezza metodologica: ad esempio, la gravidanza viene gestita come fosse una malattia, riducendo la donna partoriente a una paziente alla quale troppo facilmente si consiglia il parto cesareo (statisticamente tra i più frequenti in Italia!) come metodo veloce e sicuro di parto, togliendo la competenza materna dellimprinting alla nascita del bambino con le conseguenze psicologiche che ne derivano per la relazione madre-bambino e per la crescita serena di questultimo, e, sempre a titolo esemplificativo, ignorano quasi del tutto gli aspetti di psicocardiologia, e il loro intervento si riduce a esami medici invasivi e a somministrazione di farmaci. Eppure, la psicoterapia cognitiva costruttivista, e specificamente modelli teorici e tecniche strategiche specialistiche note come EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), lutilizzo di biofeedback, linnovativo training emotivo-cognitivo-comportamentale da me ideato nelle due versioni per la psicoterapia e per i gruppi in formazione che incrementa il riconoscimento emotivo e limplementazione di immagini mentali idonee a modificare cognizioni e comportamenti irrazionali, quando eticamente e competentemente applicati, fanno molto per questi pazienti, sia in quanto si incrementa sensibilmente il livello della loro consapevolezza e della loro capacità di farsi protagonisti nel-l'evoluzione positiva della loro guarigione, sia in quanto si può intervenire in modo mirato con sperimentati protocolli per la risoluzione dello stato di trauma psichico in tempi ragionevolmente rapidi e con risultati attendibili e verificabili. Passando dalla dimensione individuale a quella collettiva, ossia alla psicopatologia collettiva cagionata dallesposizione (anche solo mediatica) ad eventi catastrofici o angoscianti (magari associati a senso di impotenza, insicurezza, precarietà) o a diversi tipi di stress e vulnerabilità, possiamo aggiungere che, analogamente, mediante un lavoro su sistemi di neuroni specchio e sull'attivazione di nuove connessioni di reti neurali con un modello operativo non invasivo, si potrebbe migliorare la condizione di intere popolazioni rispetto a disturbi che, oggettivamente, sono in continua diffusione.
Sarebbe opportuno iniziare una sensibilizzazione collettiva partendo dalla formazione per livelli differenziati degli operatori educativi e sanitari, per poi estenderla alla popolazione suddividendola
per fasce di età e per territori di appartenenza; purtroppo la consapevolezza non è tra le aspettative primarie di committenti rivolti solo al profitto economico.
In un contesto storico-culturale dove letica, le relazioni umane, la cooperazione sembrano utopiche fiabe, questa è la sfida di essere una perturbatrice emotivamente orientata ad amplificare la consapevolezza attraverso un nuovo modello psicoterapeutico e formativo integrato, al quale sto lavorando da alcuni anni con risultati incoraggianti e che sarà mia premura esporre dettagliatamente durante il Congresso EMDR 2008.
The self-imposed mental limitations acquired from family scripts repeated age and developmental models inner acquired by the company operating through means of mass communication and
educational and working rules, induce percentage increasing as the population of Europe vulnerability to psychopathology. The onset of symptoms of various psychological and somatic
entity, is already in the early stages, in early childhood and often known during prenatal and age limit percentage tends to be more sensitive since the first month of life. Age
school behavioral situations occur where the so-called "bullying" and phenomena samples relevant syndromes of attention-deficit and hyperactive disorder - learning. In adolescence the context is complicated and panic attacks, the syndromes psychogenic depression and eating disorders are rampant, until onset of post-traumatic disorders stress which increases as a result of difficult choices of university or business orientation. The vulnerability of adulthood is manifested by different types of somatoform disorders, disorders psycho, anxious-depressive syndrome, panic attacks, disorders of torque and relational to cite the most frequent is limited only to mention the existence of multiplicity of disorders iatrogenic. In these subjects, conscious of being led into a state of shock that increase multiple somatoform disorders and psychopathology is virtually absent. They, like patients, addressed to specialists in the health field with the belief, often driven by propaganda media, that everything is just genetic, and must be "cured" with drugs for long periods if not for life. Including by health workers there are large areas of inadequacy
methodological: for example, pregnancy is managed as if it were a disease, reducing the woman in labor to a patient which too easily "advise" Caesarean (statistically the most frequent in Italy!) as a method of "fast and safe childbirth, removing the competence of imprinting the birth mother of the child with the psychological consequences that entailed for the mother-child and to the peaceful growth of the latter, and, also example, know little about the aspects of psycho, and their intervention reduces to invasive medical examinations and medication. Yet, cognitive psychotherapy
constructivist theoretical models and specific strategic and technical specialists known as EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), the use of biofeedback, the innovative
emotional-cognitive-behavioral training which I designed in two versions for psychotherapy and groups in training that increases the emotional recognition and implementation of
mental images likely to change, knowledge and irrational behavior, when ethically and competently applied, do a lot for these patients, both because it increases
significantly the level of their awareness and their ability to get players in - the positive development of their "healing", both as it can intervene in a targeted manner with
tested protocols for the resolution of the state of psychic trauma in the reasonably rapid and reliable and verifiable results. Moving from individual dimension to that
collective, that is caused by exposure to psychopathology group (even the media) to distressing or catastrophic event (perhaps associated with the sense of powerlessness, insecurity, instability) or
different types of stress and vulnerability, we can add that, similarly, through a work on systems of mirror neurons and activation of new connections of neural networks with a model
operating non-invasive, it could improve the condition of entire populations than disorders that, objectively, are in constant circulation. It would be appropriate to start a collective awareness levels, starting from training differential operators' education and health, then extend it to the population divides
by age and territories belonging unfortunately the awareness is not between the expectations primary principals addressed only in profit or loss. In a historical-cultural context where ethics, human relations, cooperation seem utopian fairy tales, this is the challenge of being an emotionally disturbing oriented to amplify the awareness through a new model of psychotherapy and integrated training, which I working for several years with encouraging results and that will spell out my readiness EMDR 2008 during the Congress.
Keywords: Mind-Body Awareness Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
244. Tarquinio, C., Fayard, A., & Mousel, P. (2008, June). Psychological consequences of family violence act in a small group of women victims and EMDR therapy: Preliminary results. Presentation at the 9th annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, London, England.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Objective: The present study would expose first results of a study about the consequences of family
violence act in a small group of women victims treated by EMDR therapy. Subjects: All of the victims
underwent EMDR therapy for seven 90-minute sessions. The subjects were included in the
therapeutic project for 12 months and were followed for 6 month after the end of the therapy.
Procedure: The victims (n=9) were referred by different associations of victims to consult with two of
the authors who took charge of all of the treatments. We have constructed a control group (n=9) with
the same characteristics (age, study level,...). After the first consultation a proposal was made to the
subjects to be part of a research protocol. The subjects then had to answer questions from Horowitzs
Revised Impact Event Scale (Horowitz & al., 1979) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory STAI-
(Spielberger & al. 1983). In the framework of therapeutic protocol, the subjects had to do a SUDS
evaluation. These different measures were administered to all of the subjects before beginning the
therapy (T1), after the seven sessions of EMDR (T2), and six months later (T3). Main results: Because
of the small size of the sample and a non-normal distribution, the data were processed with nonparametric
tests. We show differences between victims and non victims in the beginning of therapy.
The victims have higher scores in the IES-R and STAI than the control subjects. Difference continues
for the all duration of the experimentation, but the assessments after seven sessions and after six
months show fewer differences. Its important to note that the differences between the pre-test, the
postest and the evaluation after six months are shown to be equally very significant, indicating a very
positive effect with EMDR on the reduction of intrusive symptoms and avoidance.
Keywords: Family Violence Act
Accuracy Verified: Yes
245. O'Shea, K., & Wilensky, M. (2006, June). Re-building the foundations of: Early Age (0-3 Years) repair of trauma and neglect. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Assocation, Istanbul, Turkey.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Three years ago in which a person's life during the trauma itself in the world can feel safe, confident and have a very significant impact on the relations have to feel effective. In the study, participants simple, safe and effective type of standard protocols will have the opportunity to practice. In this protocol, 1) the early years of trauma for the required security işlemleme create his natural in a way that provides a fast and Preparatory Phase. At this stage, the "Safe Place" instead of "Secure Status" a non-stressful way to define and EMDR'la to be able to meet the "feelings to re-adjustment" method exists. After that, trainers, each age (babies, children, adolescents and adults) for the method will show how to use. After the participants to reach 0-3 years of trauma and to repair 2) more secure, fast and efficient to sort the language and, 3) (Review the experience to assign appropriate Responsibility-Release emotional and physical energy to reach a sense of Safety-Repair the experience by Imagining what was needed in order to have future Choices): Experience of the review, the security of his reach, needed something to imagine the experience to repair and 4) "Creative Blending" (not a therapist, counseling by the uncovered). Study, early age may be a symptom of trauma will be descriptions (eg, somatic disorders and personality disorders), and suspected cases of trauma and neglect the benefits of using this methodology will be revealed.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
246. Caroppo, E., Muscelli, C., Brogna, P., Paci, M., Camerino, C., & Bria, P. (2009). Relating with migrants: ethnopsychiatry and psychotherapy]. Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita, 45(3), 331-340.
Language: English
Format: Magazine
Dopo avere dato dei cenni
storici di antropologia culturale, psichiatria transculturale ed etnopsichiatria si passa ad esaminare
la letteratura che descrive gli interventi nel campo della salute mentale effettuati con i migranti.
Nella prima parte si prendono in considerazione dei suggerimenti tecnici quando si ha a che fare
con pazienti arabi musulmani e si analizzano questioni come differenza genere, individualismo/collettività,
stigma, religione. Nella seconda parte si descrivono altre questioni: mediazione culturale,
migrazione e intervento rispetto alla famiglia, Disturbo Post Traumatico da Stress per finire ad analizzare
il caso in cui ad essere straniero è il terapeuta. Nella conclusione si riflette sullimportanza di
tenere in considerazione, oltre alla variabile cultura, anche la peculiarità di ogni singolo paziente e
luniversalità della sofferenza umana.
After an historical review of cultural anthropology, transcultural psychiatry and ethno
psychiatry, we will examine the literature on intervention with migrants within mental health system.
In the first part, we will consider the therapeutic relationship with Arab-Muslim patients and look at
specific issues such as gender differences, individualism, sociality, stigma, religion. The second part
will be focused on cultural mediation, migration and family intervention and post-traumatic stress
disorder and, finally, the experience of being a foreign therapist. Conclusions will discuss the importance
of culture, individuality and universality of human suffering, when treating a foreign patient.
Keywords: Cultural Competence Ethnopsychiatry Ethnopsychology Health and Culture Migration Psychotherapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
247. Mosquera, D., Gonzalez, A., & Seijo, N. (2010, April). Relational problems in severely traumatized patients. Presentation at the 2nd Bi-Annual International European Society for Trauma and Dissociation Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Language: English
Format: Conference
A practical workshop focused on frequent clinical situations in therapy. Its main goal is help the participants to identify relational patterns based on reciprocal role procedures, in order to be able to overcome therapist-patient difficulties. A brief therapeutic exposure about different theoretical sources will be presented: Cognitive-Analytic Therapy, Adaptive Information Processing Model and EMDR, Theory of Structural Dissociation of the Personality, Attachment Theories, psychodynamic transference-countertransference conceptualizations, and therapies focused on relational issues (systemic family therapy, psychodramatic group therapy, etc) Vignettes of frequent reciprocal role procedures in therapeutic relationship with severely traumatized people will be presented, explained the different kinds of presentation. The linking of these vignettes with the traumatic history will be developed. Short video-cases will illustrate these situations and some interventions to overcome them. Modified EMDR interventions will be described and showed.
Learning Outcomes Therapeutic relationship problems are main issues in severely traumatized people. Different authors coming from different theoretical orientations have presented thoughtful approaches to these situations and how to overcome them. In this workshop we will review many of these contributions, but we will base our theoretical development on the concept of reciprocal role procedures from the Cognitive Analytic Therapy (Ryle). From this concept we will summarize frequent relationship problems in therapy, how we conceptualize them from the Adaptive Information Processing model from EMDR and how we work on these issues using EMDR methodology. An additional learning outcome of this workshop is that the participants will review their own experience with their patients through a specific evaluation, and will have the opportunity to share their experiences.
Keywords: Relationship Issues Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
248. Madrid, A., Skolek, S., & Shapiro, F. (2006, October). Repairing failures in bonding through EMDR. Clinical Case Studies, 5(4), 271-286. doi:10.1177/1534650104267403.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Maternal-infant bonding is an intense emotional tie between mother and infant that often begins during pregnancy and continues after birth. Prolonged physical separation from one's infant or traumatic interference can sometimes impede this process, leading to a lack of bonding. Whereas many medical procedures and illnesses can cause mother and child to become separated immediately after birth and affect bonding, other causes of emotional separation may be somewhat more difficult to identify. Nevertheless, maternal trauma has been identified as one such form of emotional separation that can interfere with bonding. This article illustrates the application of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for addressing bonding difficulties related to trauma issues. EMDR is an integrative psychotherapy that uses a standardized eight-phase approach to treatment and is a well-accepted treatment for trauma. Although more research is needed, this case suggests that EMDR may be an appropriate and efficient treatment for bonding difficulties. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Attachment Behavior Bonding Failures Case Report Clinical Case Study Females Integrative Psychotherapy Maternal Infant Bonding Maternal Mother Child Relations Separation Reactions Parenting Behavior Physical Separation Pregnancy Stressors Survivors Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
249. Madrid, A., Skolek, S., & Shapiro, F. (2007). Repairing maternal-infant bonding failures. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 131-145). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
This chapter presents an inside view of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) narrated by a client who was requested to tell her story to educate clinicians and clients so that others might be healed. The client's vivid account of her emotional history, along with the description of various memories targeted in treatment and the results of her processing sessions, provide an illustration of the therapy. Her emotional upheaval and adult relationships are a reflection of the cauldron of abuse, deceit, and chaos intrinsic to her family of origin. As indicated by the Adaptive Information Processing model, her symptoms were largely the result of the earlier negative experiences from childhood that were dysfunctionally stored in her brain. These memories had inherent within them the emotions and perspectives that generated her negative sense of self and inability to function happily in the world. The processing of the memories of these early events resulted in accelerated learning and a concomitant transmutation of her personal identity and self-efficacy. An addendum to the case by Kaslow elucidates the family systems perspective. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Asthma Attachment Attachment Behavior Attachment Disorders Bonding Problems Bonding Failure Maternal-Infant Bonding Mother-Infant Bonding Mother Child Relations Mothers
Accuracy Verified: Yes
250. Sayer, P. C. (2002, August). Responses of individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing or a cognitive-behavioral treatment as mediated by attachment status. Alliant International University, Fresno, CA. AAT 3043018.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
The primary focus of this investigation was to evaluate the responses of individuals diagnosed with PTSD to treatment with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). In the event that a participant was unable to tolerate the EMDR approach, an alternative cognitive-behavioral treatment approach was offered. It was anticipated that individuals exhibiting Secure Attachment status as revealed on administration of the Bell Object Relations and Reality Testing Inventory (BORRTI) would experience lower scores between pre- and post-intervention administrations of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). 6 individuals took part in the study; 5 completed the EMDR protocol and one completed an alternative cognitive-behavioral therapy program due to problems tolerating the EMDR treatments. Subjects met with the researcher/therapist from 1 to 12 sessions, participating in the assessment, psychoeducational, and treatment components of the protocol. The application of the BORRTI Insecure Attachment (IA) measure resulted in 5 of the participants receiving a designation Secure Attachment status and 1 person an Insecure Attachment status classification. Thus, comparison groups according to attachment status designation could not be formed. Comparisons of group mean differences between the pre- and post-intervention administrations of the SCL-90-R did not reveal statistically significant differences with regard to the five individuals completing the EMDR protocol. Limitations of the study are discussed, as well as implications for future research on the mediating influences of attachment status on the treatment of PTSD. [Author Abstract]
Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering. 63(2-B), Aug 2002, pp. 1047.
Keywords: Attachment Behavior Brief Psychotherapy Clinical Trial Empirical Study Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Stressors Survivors Treatment Effectiveness
Accuracy Verified: Yes
251. Bogdanovic, V. (2008, Novembre). Rileggere la scuola del dissociazionismo (da Janet, Ferenzi, Jung fino a Kalsched) - le radici e oltre [Reread the dissociation school(from Janet, Ferenzi, Jung to Kalsched) - The roots and beyond]. Poster presentato al Applicazioni Cliniche dell'EMDR Congresso Nazionale, Milano, Italia .
Language: Italian
Format: Conference
Lautore segue le tracce a partire dalla filosofia associazionistica fino la scuola dissociazionistica a partire da Janet, Binet, Charcot. Viene messa a fuoco la teoria della mente freudiana, intesa come prima teoria, teoria del trauma, vista nellottica della corrente dissociazonistica come anche successivo allontanamento con la seconda topica. Si prosegue con
altri autori della corrente psicoanalitica, come Sandor Ferenczi, il qui il pensiero venne riscoperto recentemente (Bonomi e Borgogno). Lattualità del lavoro di Ferenczi, è riconoscibile nel suo sottolineare limportanza del trauma per lo sviluppo della psicopatologia e limportanza della relazione terapeutica con la rivalutazione critica della tecnica psicoanalitica seguita dai suoi originali contributi. La modalità tecnica risolutiva di Ferenczi nella forma della neo-catarsi, come viene nominata, si avvicina alle terapie attualmente accreditate per il trattamento dei vissuti traumatici, una delle quali è appunto lEMDR. Anche K.G. Jung riconosce limportanza di riportare la questione, per tanti anni nellombra, dellattenzione scientifica - la validità di teoria traumatica delle nevrosi. Molti concetti di Psicologia Analitica di Jung si avvicinano ai concetti di psicotraumatologia moderna dellambiente traumatico, del trauma cumulativo nascosto dentro la memoria implicita (van der Kolk, van der Hart) e lo porta a fare riflessioni sulla revisione del metodo terapeutico dellabreazione. Limmaginazione attiva, la tecnica terapeutica creata da Jung, in alcuni passi procedurali sembra vicina alla modalità del lavoro terapeutico svolto con lEMDR. Viene rivisitato leffervescente pensiero di Donald Kalsched, uno degli attuali autori junghiani di maggiore spessore e originalità, il quale amplifica le posizioni storiche di Jung sul trauma, insieme ad altre correnti del pensiero e della ricerca, soprattutto quelli delle relazioni oggettuali e della psicologia del sé.
The author follows the trail from the philosophy of "associational" until the school of
"Dissociation" from Janet, Binet, Charcot. Focus is the theory of mind Freud, understood as the first theory, trauma theory, viewed from the standpoint of the "current" dissociation as well as subsequent removal with the second topic. Continue with other authors of the current psychoanalytic as Sandor Ferenczi, the thinking here was rediscovered recently (Bonomi and Burgundy). The actuality of the work of Ferenczi, is recognizable in its emphasis of the importance of trauma for the development of psychopathology and the importance of therapeutic relationship with the critical re-evaluation of psychoanalytic technique followed by its original contributions. Mode "technical" termination of Ferenczi in the form of "neo-catharsis" as it is named, was approached therapies currently approved for the treatment of experienced traumatic, one of which is precisely EMDR. KG Jung also recognizes the importance of bringing the question for many years in the shadows, scientific attention - the validity of the theory traumatic neuroses. Many concepts of Analytical Psychology of Jung's approach to the concepts of psychotraumatology modern "environmental traumatic", the "cumulative trauma" hidden inside implicit memory (van der Kolk, van der Hart) and takes him to make reflections on the revision of therapeutic method dell'abreazione. Active imagination, therapeutic technique created by Jung, some steps of the procedure seems close to the mode of therapeutic work done with EMDR. Is revisited the effervescent Kalsched thought of Donald, one of the Jungian authors of the current greater depth and originality, which amplifies the historical positions of Jung on trauma, together to other currents of thought and research, especially those of "object relations" and "Psychology of self."
Keywords: Dissociation Janet Jung Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
252. Dworkin, M., & Errebo, N. (2011). Rupture et réparation dans la relation patient/thérapeute EMDR: Moments urgents et moments de rencontre [Rupture and repair in the EMDR client/clinician relationship: Now moments and moments of meeting]. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 5(4), E74-E85. doi:10.1891/1933-3196.5.4.E74.
Language: French
Format: Journal
Cet article avance lidée quil serait avantageux de conceptualiser lEMDR (désensibilisation et retraitement
par les mouvements oculaires) comme une thérapie à deux personnes, cest-à-dire une thérapie
qui emploie le dialogue entre le thérapeute et le patient autour de la résonance, de laccordage mutuel
et de lobjectif de leur relation. Les recherches en cours sur le système des neurones-miroirs fournissent
une possible base neurologique à cette proposition. Des exemples cliniques détaillés illustrent la rupture
(moments urgents) et la réparation subséquente (moments de rencontre) de la relation thérapeutique
au cours des huit phases EMDR. Nous exposons le risque élevé de rupture de la relation au cours de la
thérapie EMDR. Nous faisons des propositions pour améliorer la pratique, la formation et les consultations
dEMDR en prêtant attention à lexpérience intersubjective entre le patient et le thérapeute, en
particulier dans le travail avec des patients qui ont vécu des déceptions répétées et généralisées dans
leurs relations amoureuses ou professionnelles.
This article proposes that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) would be strengthened by being conceptualized as a two-person therapy; that is, a therapy that employs dialogue between clinician and client about the resonance, attunement, and intention of their relationship. Current research on the mirror neuron system provides a hypothetical neurological underpinning to this proposal. Detailed clinical examples illustrate rupture (Now Moments) and subsequent repair (Moments of Meeting) of the therapeutic relationship in the Eight Phases of EMDR. The high potential for relationship rupture during EMDR therapy is discussed. Suggestions are made for improving EMDR practice, training, and consultation by attending to the intersubjective experience between client and clinician, especially when working with clients who have experienced repeated and pervasive disappointments in love and work.
Keywords: Integrative Therapy Now Moments Moments of Meeting Therapeutic Relationship
Accuracy Verified: Yes
253. Giovannozzi, G. (2013, June). Safety, regulation, self-regulation and eye contact: New challenges for EMDR therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Geneva, Switzerland.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Porges polivagal theory of the hierarchical interpretation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), in addition to extending the range of human beings possible responses to environmental demands, links the first line ventral-vagal response with the regulation of important viscera as well as that of facial and head muscles, mediating social interactions, and associates its activation with the feeling of safety, identifying this latter condition as essential for a persons well-being.
Without safety no social relations, physiological regulation or healing are possible. Hence the importance for EMDR therapists to lead their clients to this condition: lacking the activation of the ventral-vagal circuit there can be no processing. EMDR therapists will be provided with tools to keep their clients in safe conditions within the setting.
Clients exposed to trauma and/or insecure attachment do not have a good ANS regulation and maintain inadequate defensive attitudes as demonstrated by Porges results, easily comparable with Schores on affective development and with those of several multi-disciplinary scholars.
Exploring this dysfunction provides EMDR therapists with useful elements to guide their clients in the difficult task of confronting what they did not/could not process at that time. We propose a three-pronged cross-sectional assessment, regardless of the pathology, aimed at identifying the defensive arousal state of the ANS needed to face the dysregulating impact at that time, focusing on the prevalent activation style of the client, when meeting environmental challenges, and that emerging in the session. Starting from this assessment, EMDR therapists will be provided with tools to help clients recognize and master their defenses to increase their flexibility.
Using the regulation as a healing instrument and goal, and given the two-directional psychophysiological approach, where psychological and physiological processes meet, a new intervention model, stemming from the AIP-EMDR approach, is proposed, acting directly on the missing or impaired developmental stages of the self-regulation ability, consistently with what Porges hoped for.
The intervention focuses on Eye Contact (EC), because, as confirmed by several scholars, this is a privileged communication pathway, in particular in the mother-child dyad, to learn self-regulating skills and is easily impaired in psychiatric clients.
Learning objectives:
Raise EMDR therapists awareness of the importance of safety for their clients, based on Porges Polyvagal Theory;
Provide therapists with tools to maintain clients safety during the session;
Help EMDR therapist to recognize and modulate clients Autonomic Nervous System activation; and
Present an EMDR Protocol to regulate Eye Contact
Keywords: Eye Contact Protocol Regulation Safety
Accuracy Verified: Yes
254. Calof, D. (1995, June). The self of the therapist: An experiential clinic for clinicians working with abuse recovery issues. Presentation at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Working with survivors of trauma and abuse can challenge or shatter therapists' basic beliefs about safety, goodness, and meaning,
leaving one anxious, vulnerable, uncertain and prone to countertransference act-out. Through discussion and structured experiences
that allow for individual pacing, participants in this experiential clinic will have an opportunity to identify, transform, and work
through issues of the self of the therapist including countertransferences, parallel process, secondary traumatization, and the intense
and sometime immobilizing existential crises that may result from this work. The leader will endeavor to create an enjoyable playful
climate of mutual respect, trust, confidentiality and containment throughout the day.
Educational objectives:
A. Participants will engage in group and individual exercises designed to break with injunctions, scripts and
internalizations left over from the family of origin that have prohibited personal authority and experimentation.
B. Through lecture/discussion and exercises, participants will explore countertransference issues, secondary PTSD, and
common therapeutic impasses and the existential crises they evoke in the self of the therapist.
C. Participants will engage in group and individual exercises designed to assist in the resolution of on-going
countertransference issues growing out of their current clinical practice.
(1) Benedeck, E.P. (1984). The silent scream; Countertransference reactions to victims. American Journal Of Social Psychiatry, IV,
(2) Camstock, C.M. (1991). Countertransference and the suicidal MPD patient. Dissociation, Vol. IV, No. 1;25-35.
Keywords: Abuse Recovery Survivors Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
255. Mueller, K-M. (2004, February). Separation anxiety disorder and vomit phobia: An integrated approach. Presentation at the 2nd annual Conference of the EMDR UK & Ireland Association, Birmingham, UK .
Language: English
Format: Conference
This case report will illustrate how an integrated approach based on a combination of family therapy, CBT and EMDR was used for a 13 year old teenager who presented with vomit phobia and a background of separation anxiety disorder.
Keywords: Separation Anxiety Disorder Vomit Phobia
Accuracy Verified: Yes
256. Koedam, W. S. (2007). Sexual tauma in dsfunctional marriages: Integrating structural therapy and EMDR. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp.223-242). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Sexual abuse survivor couples who choose to engage in marital therapy often present with problems around attachment, intimacy, infidelity, rage, a sense of entrapment, feelings of betrayal, low self-esteem, powerlessness, codependency, and a need to control or have power. Their individual histories become critical to understanding what type of interventions to implement as these individuals continue to respond to one another in an almost stylized and predictable manner. This chapter describes a treatment approach that combines Structural Family Therapy (SFT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in marital therapy when one or both partners have a history of childhood sexual abuse. In this approach, the therapist begins with SFT and then shifts to EMDR treatment of the traumatized partner. This shift is to process the survivor's abuse experience so that he or she can come to an adaptive resolution. This sets the stage for the survivor to respond differently to the possible triggers in his or her life as well as in the relationship. Once the EMDR process is complete and the couple participates in joint debriefing of the EMDR intervention, they reengage in the SFT marital sessions while integrating insights and adaptations the trauma survivor has gained from the EMDR work. This approach involves the applications of the EMDR standard protocol. It also uses the core elements of SFT, such as joining, restructuring diffuse and rigid boundaries, relabeling, and enactments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Dysfunctional Marriages Emotional Trauma Integrative Psychotherapy Marriage Counseling. Sexual Abuse Sexual Trauma Structural Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
257. Silver, S. (2008, September). Shades of gray, Part I: Ethical issues for EMDR therapists. Prersentation at the annual meeting of EMDR International Association, Phoenix, AZ.
Language: English
Format: Conference
As practitioners of a specialized treatment method, EMDR therapists face unique challenges in seeking to practice ethically. This workshop will explore the ethical principles and scenarios that are especially uniquely relevant to an EMDR practitioner; discuss the meaning of ethical practice for EMDR clinicians; and explore how to apply these principles within participants clinical work. While participants will be asked to work within their own disciplines ethical standards, the workshop will use the ethical code of the American Psychological Association as its reference point (because this is what EMDRIA utilizes when there is no ethical code that applies to a particular practitioner.)Practitioners who are governed by an ethical code (e.g. nurses, social workers, marriage and family therapists) should review their own ethical codes prior to coming to the workshop.
Keywords: Ethics
Accuracy Verified: Yes
258. Silver, S. (2008, September). Shades of gray, Part II: Ethical issues for EMDR therapists. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Phoenix, AZ.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR Consultants face the challenging task of providing consultation to EMDR therapists so they can help those therapists understand the nature of ethical EMDR practice and then apply those principals within their practice. In addition, practicing EMDR consultation ethically carries its own challenges. This workshop will: explore the ethical principals that are especially uniquely relevant to EMDR consultation; discuss the meaning of ethical consultation for EMDR consultants; and describe strategies for facilitating ethical practice among their consultees. While participants will be asked to work within their own disciplines ethical standards, the workshop will use the ethical code of the American Psychological Association as its reference point (because this is what EMDRIA utilizes when there is no ethical code that applies to a particular practitioner). Practitioners who are governed by an ethical code (e.g. nurses, social workers, marriage and family therapists) should review their own ethical codes prior to coming to the workshop.
Keywords: Ethics
Accuracy Verified: Yes
259. Klaff, F., & Dutton, P. (2004, September). The short and the long of it: Crisis versus routine treatment of children and adolescents. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Montreal, Ontario Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR techniques with children following crisis will be demonstrated drawing from interventions developed directly at international disaster
sites. The nature of immediate intervention with dramatic trauma problems will be addressed in terms of treatment goals, techniques and
outcomes. Safety preparation skills using interactive safe place and a quick phobia protocol to clear prior problems will be taught. This approach will be contrasted with more routine treatment for past trauma and resistant family system problems. Clinical issues will be analyzed with videotaped cases treated both in childhood and later in adolescence.
Repetitive themes and unresolved issues will be highlighted. The evolution of therapist experience with resultant refinement of treatment skills will be discussed.
Keywords: Adolescents Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
260. Gilman, S. (2003, Spring). Shots fired, officer down: recovering from the after effects of traumatic stress. Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists.
Language: English
Format: Other
In the past 18 years as a Marriage & Family Therapist, I have obtained continuing education in a variety of
therapeutic modalities. I have used them all. Never before have Iseen such significant, efficient and lasting change
in people than Ihave with Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). For five years Ihave spent 100's
of hours using EMDR. One by one my clients experienced symptom relief and improvements in the quality of their
lives they had never before known. Iwas clinically very satisfied and altruistically humbled. I found myself saying,
"Yes, this is why Igot into this business, to make a difference." Then in 1999 I was introduced to a case where
EMDR was put to an intense test and showed its colors. The following is a brief description of a journey through
trauma and healing that has forever changed me, my work, and by their own report, the lives of others.
Keywords: Policemen Police Officers Traumatic Stress
Accuracy Verified: Yes
261. DeYoung, R. R. (2009, July). A single-case design implementing eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with an ex-cult member. Presentation at the International Cultic Studies Association Conference, Geneva, Switzerland.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This single-case study utilized a repeated-measures design with an ex-Jehovahs Witness who was treated with EMDR over a two-month period. A brief background history and mental status, particularly relevant to a 37-year old female who was disfellowshipped by her entire support network and family after 28 years, served as a baseline for treatment. Symptoms relevant to the Post-Cult Trauma Syndrome, as defined by M. Thaler Singer (1979), are addressed via the Validity of Cognitions Scale (VOC) and the Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS) used by practitioners of EMDR. In addition, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Impact of Event Scale (IES) were implemented to further validate intervention results. All measures revealed significant improvement in symptoms following this brief, short-term treatment. Despite the fact EMDR is touted as one of the most effective interventions for trauma-related disorders, there are virtually no empirically based studies that explore the application of this type of therapy with individuals traumatized by cults. It is concluded that EMDR might serve as a standard therapeutic intervention in the treatment of individuals exiting from cults. Ramifications for future research are discussed.
[Author abstract]
Keywords: Cults Ex-Cult Members Single Case Design
Accuracy Verified: Yes
262. Troost, P. W. (2011, April). Sociale informatieverwerking en behandeling bij kinderen met een verstandelijk beperking [Social information processing and treatment of children with a mental restriction]. Symposia op het 39ste Voorjaarscongres Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie, Amsterdam.
Language: Dutch
Format: Conference
De psychiatrische morbiditeit
bij kinderen met een verstandelijke beperking
(VB) is hoog. Daarbij spelen tekorten in de
sociale informatieverwerking (SI) een belangrijke
rol. Bestaande diagnostische instrumenten als
intelligentietesten geven daarover onvolledige
informatie. Tegen deze achtergrond wordt de Sociale
Informatie Verwerkings Test (SIVT) ontwikkeld
om op gestandaardiseerde wijze tekorten in de
sociale informatievewerking te kunnen bepalen.
Kennis van de specifieke beperkingen bij kinderen
met een verstandelijke beperking maakt het
mogelijk voor normaal intelligente kinderen ontwikkelde
evidence-based behandelingen als eye
movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) en Functional Family Therapy (FFT) aan te passen voor kinderen met een verstandelijke beperking. Veel
van de gezinnen kampen met multipele problemen
en worden vanuit een poliklinische setting
onvoldoende bereikt. Om deze reden is een outreachende
vorm van hulpverlening ontwikkeld
waarbij zorg wordt geboden op school.
Leerdoel: De deelnemer heeft weet van:
1. de ontwikkeling van de SIVT voor kinderen met
een verstandelijke beperking; 2. hoe kennis over
specifieke beperkingen bij kinderen met een verstandelijke
beperking te gebruiken bij de aanpassing
van bestaande evidence-based behandelvormen
als emdr en FFT; 3. het inzetten van methodieken
van verplaatste zorg als de zorgklas.
The psychiatric morbidity
in children with intellectual disabilities
(VB) is high. While deficits in play
social information (SI), a major
role. Existing diagnostic tools such as
Intelligence tests provide about incomplete
information. Against this background, the Social
Information Processing Test (SIPT) developed
standardized manner to shortages in the
informative social force to be determined.
Knowledge of the specific limitations in children
with an intellectual disability makes it
possible for normally intelligent children developed
evidence-based treatments such as eye
Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Functional Family Therapy (FFT) to adapt for children with intellectual disabilities. Many
of families facing multiple problems
and from an outpatient setting
insufficiently reached. For this reason, an outreach
form of development assistance
where care is provided at school.
Objective: The participant knows:
1. the development of children with SIPT
learning disabilities; 2. how knowledge about
limitations in children with intellectual
restriction to use in adjusting
existing evidence-based treatment modalities
as EMDR and FFT; 3. the use of methodologies
to transfer care as' care class.
Keywords: Children FFT Functional Family Therapy Mental Disabilities Social Information Processing Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
263. Puk, G., & Silver, S. (1997, October). Some lessons learned in the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program intervention in the Balkans. Behavior Online. Retrieved http://www.behavior.net/forums/evolutionary/1998/27-user=&email=&depth=8&detail=description&lastread=5-8.htm 6/10/1998.
Language: English
Format: Other
Mental health professionals have been trained in using EMDR with trauma victims throughout the world. However, the EMDR-Humanitarian Assistance Program (EMDR-HAP) was formed in 1995 as a nonprofit organization to provide assistance and training to local mental health professionals/psychotherapists within the United States and internationally who are managing the nearly overwhelming task of providing psychotherapy to the victims of large scale traumatic events. This includes natural disasters, e.g.: earthquakes, floods, firestorms, hurricanes; military personnel and civilians in war zones; victims of large scale accidents, e.g.: the family members of the victims of TWA flight #800; and victims of sexual assault and terrorist acts, e.g.: the Oklahoma City bombing. The EMDR-HAP personnel have been trainers and group facilitators from the EMDR Institute who have volunteered their time and expertise to provide treatment and to train local mental health professionals in EMDR.
Keywords: Balkans ERMDR-HAP EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program
Accuracy Verified: Yes
264. Ricci, R. J., Clayton, C. A., Foster, S., Jarero, I., Litt, B., Artigar, L., & Kamin, S. (2009). Special applications of EMDR: Treatment of performance anxiety, sex offenders, couples, families, and traumatized groups. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 3(4), 279-288. doi:10.1891/1933-3220.127.116.119.
Language: English
Format: Journal
This article presents four brief reports that illustrate EMDRs potential in addressing a range of pathologies
and problems. These include traumatized groups, families and couples, sex offenders, and individuals
with performance anxiety. Each brief report provides a short summary of the research, highlights
current EMDR research, and points out what is needed for future investigations. Preliminary results suggest
that the EMDRintegrative group treatment protocol may be an effective means of providing mental
health care to large groups of people affected by critical incidents. The report titled EMDR in Couples
and Family Therapy provides an overview of the field and describes the various ways in which EMDR is
being incorporated. The presenting issue with performance anxiety is debilitating evaluation anxiety at
the prospect of having to perform some important activity in front of an audience that matters a great
deal to the client. Sex offender treatment is enhanced by an effective means of resolving psychological
mechanisms that contribute to the dynamics of the offense chain.
Keywords: Couples and Family Therapy Group Treatment Performance Anxiety Sex Offender Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
265. Brink, A. (2006). Spiritualität in der traumatherapie mit EMDR [Spirituality in trauma therapy with EMDR]. Institut für Traumatherapie. Retrieved from http://www.traumatherapie.de/users/brink/Spirituelle%20Aspekte.html on 11/16/2011.
Language: German
Format: Other
Allgemeine spirituellle Aspekte der Traumatherapie
Viktor Frankl entwickelte Ideen zu Psychotherapie und psychischer Gesundheit am
schrecklichsten Ort, den die Welt je sah: in einem Konzentrationslager der NS-Zeit. Seine
Schriften lesen sich gleidhwohl alles andere als schrecklich, todesnah oder morbide.
Vielmehr geht es um tiefe existentielle Fragen, die Frankl stellt und fur sich selbst voll
Glauben, ~i tmenschl ichdeiut nd spiritueller Einsicht beantwortet.
1st es ein Zufall, dass gelrade ein ~olocaust -~ber lebenddeer r Begrijnder der Logotherapie
ist, die die "Frage nach dem Sinn" (Frankl, 1985) zum obersten Gebot des "Sinn-voll
heilen" (1984) in der psychologischen Behandlung erhebt?
Ich denke nicht. Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Trauma - dem eigenen wie dem anderer
- wirft vielmehr ganz voh selbst existentielle und spirituelle Fragen auf. Therapeuten wie
Patienten haben sich diesen zu stellen. Ich denke, von der Gute der Antwort auf die Frage
nach dem Sinn des schicksalhaften Leidens hangt die zukunftige Lebensqualitat eines
Traumatisierten ab.
Unsere therapeutische Aufgabe muss daher sein, gerneinsam mit dem Patienten eben diese
Fragen zu stellen und ihh auf der Suche nach einer befriedigenden Antwort zu begleiten.
Dabei nutzt es nichts, sith groOe Worte, wie sie in der Politik so leicht uber die Lippen
gehen, anzueignen, etwa von "innerem Frieden", von "Schuld und Suhne" bzw. von
"Unschuld" oder gar von "Vergebung" zu sprechen. Es zahlt nur das, was fuhlbar wird, was
als innere Erfahrung auf$teigt, was als "Eingebung", "Erleuchtung", "Gedankenblitz" oder
"innere Weisheit" aus delm Patienten selbst heraus entwickelt wird.
In der modernen Psychotherapieforschung werden diese therapeutischen Momente als
Therapieeinheiten mit bdsonders hoher Kongruenz (Grawe, 2005) beschrieben und damit
als anzustrebende Therapiegestaltung: "Je intensiver solche Erfahrungen der Kongruenz
sind, desto mehr wird sich sein [des Patienten] Inkongruenzniveau verringern mit all den
weit reichenden positiven Folgen, die sich aus den [...KIorrelationen zwischen
Verringerungen der Inko~ngruenzu nd klinischen Verbesserungen ergeben" (Grawe, 2005).
Hellinger (2003), verlangt als Abschluss seiner Familienaufstellungen stets das Erweisen
von Respekt, ja Versohnung und Vergebung - auch Eltern gegenuber, die ihr Kind
misshandelt, ignoriert, rrhissbraucht oder weggegeben haben.
Aus traumatheoretischer Sicht birgt dieses Vorgehen das Risiko einer erneuten
Traumatisierung. Ganz alnders, wenn derselbe Patient ganz von allein, aus seinem eigenen
Prozess heraus, zu einer Haltung der Vergebung finden kann: dann ist es mehr als eine
Genesung, ein wirkliches Ganz und Heil werden, ein groOer Schritt zu einern spirituellen
Wie wir noch sehen werden, wird dieser Schritt durch EMDR haufig gefordert. Er Iasst sich
nicht erzwingen, aber ich durfte mehrfach Zeuge werden, wie er ganz von allein geschieht.
Zunachst aber kehren wir zu der Feststellung zuruck, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit den
spirituellen Seiten des Seins ihren festen Platz in der Traumatherapie hat.
Spiritual general aspects of trauma therapy Viktor Frankl developed ideas on psychotherapy and mental health in the most horrible place that the world has ever seen: in a concentration camp during the Nazi period. His papers read gleidhwohl anything but terrible, todesnah or morbid. The issue is deep existential questions that Frankl makes for himself and full of faith, i ~ nd tmenschl ichdeiut spiritual insight answered. 1st it a coincidence that Paddlewheel a ~ olocaust - ~ over lebenddeer r Begrijnder is of logotherapy, the "question of the meaning" (Frankl, 1985) the supreme command of the "cure sensible" (1984) in the psychological treatment does? I think not. Dealing with the trauma - their own as the others - quite the contrary voh throws himself on existential and spiritual questions. Therapists and patients have to face them. I think the best answer to the question of the meaning of the fatal disease depends the future Lebensqualitat from a traumatized. Our therapeutic task must be, therefore, like to make alone with the patient on this very issue and ihh to accompany the search for a satisfactory answer. It is no use sith Grooe words, as in politics go so easily over the lips, to appropriate to speak of such "inner peace", from "Crime and Suhner" or of "innocence" or even "forgiveness" . It pays only what is palpable, as the inner experience of what teigt $, which as "inspiration", "enlightenment", "mind flash" or "inner wisdom" is developed from delme patients themselves out. In modern psychotherapy research, these therapeutic moments as therapy sessions with bdsonders high congruence (Grawe, 2005) described and so as to be aimed at treatment planning: "The more such experiences of congruence, the greater will reduce his [the patient] Inkongruenzniveau far with all the reaching positive consequences arising from the [... KIorrelationen between reductions in Inko ngruenzu ~ nd clinical improvements result "(Grawe, 2005). Hellinger (2003), required as a conclusion of his family always lists the demonstration of respect, even reconciliation and forgiveness - to about parents who abused their child, ignored, have rrhissbraucht or given away. Trauma from a theoretical perspective this approach carries the risk of re-traumatization. All of ALND if the same patient come about solely from his own trial, may related to an attitude of forgiveness: it is more than a recovery, a true and full salvation to a einern groOer step spiritual awareness. As we shall see, this step by EMDR is often required. He Iasst force is not, but I could go back and witness how it happens all by itself. At first but we return back to the finding that the conflict is with the spiritual side of being a permanent place in trauma therapy.
Keywords: Spirituality Trauma Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
266. van der Weele, J., & With, A. (2007, June). Stabilization groups with ethnic minority women after domestic violence: Presentation of a model based on structural theory of dissociation, EMDR, intercultural comunication and expressive artwork. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Alternative to violence has developed a group treatment model structured by the theory of structural dissociation and EMDR trauma treatment theory. Woman with ethnic minority background received short terms group treatment at a shelter for victims of domestic violence at an outpatient clinic and at a domestic violence family treatment center. The groups were supplements to individual therapy/counseling. We have had 10 groups; one with only Pakistani women, several mixed ethnic minority cultural groups with translation and groups in simple Norwegian. Recruitment was enhanced by the policy of sharing of symptoms and problems today with no obligation to share about personal past. The model has low drop out rate and therapist working with the individuals report more effective treatment sessions. For some women the group becomes the preferred choice of treatment. We discovered that early phase trauma work can be done in a group format with severely and recently traumatized women. Methods used are resource installation and safe place work, increase awareness of negative/positive cognitions, butterfly hug, nightmare protocol, expressive art therapy techniques as grounding, breathing techniques working with personal borders, working with imagination and playfulness. Structural therapy of dissociation concepts as ANP/EP structures and mental capacity, working from here and now, focusing on the ANP above EP's are woven into how the therapists regulate the group process and plan content. The theory organizes how we handle flashbacks, current acute crisis and how we focus on the womens personal trauma. We also teach about the effect of violence in relationships, the need to work on personal safety and the needs of children in the aftermath of violence. Theory from the field of intercultural communication gave us guidelines in working with women from high context, indirect and collectivistic cultures. A workbook for the clients on violence, PTSD symptoms and stabilisation treatment has been developed in the aftermath of these groups and is translated into several languages. We will present the material at the conference in the structure of the early fase trauma treatment group format. Showing in vivo how we apply the theory to severely traumatized women. We will share some of our favorite group exercises, metaphors and group rituals. Our goal is: 1. to show how the theory of structural dissociation serves as guideline for organizing and resulting treatment with severely traumatized clients in groups. 2. Give insight into typical adjustments that have been made to tailor treatment to ethnic minority populations. 3. Explain how expressive art work needs to make adjustments to the population of severely traumatized women. 4. Finally show how the group uses elements from EMDR and enhances individual EMDR work. In our experience, the stabilisation groups have integrated the heart, mind and body in the work of healing with a population that is often found difficult to treat effectively. We hare started to retain other therapists in using the model and are in the process of applying for a research grant.
Keywords: Artwork Domestic Violence Dissociation Ethnic Intercultural Communication Minority Stabilization Women
Accuracy Verified: Yes
267. Saverio, L. I. (2008, June). State of consciousness & paradigm: A comparison between two descriptions of the processes of change observed in a psychotherapy integrated with EMDR and some contributions on a unified theory of psychotherapy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Conference, London, England UK.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This presentation compares two different descriptions: Paradigm and State of Consciousness, of the changes,
observable in a psychotherapy integrated with EMDR, to establish which of the two descriptions is the most likely
and consistent. Applying the method of the double description it will seek to identify contributions that may be
useful for the construction of a Unified Theory of Psychotherapy. At first, attention is focused upon the necessity
to construct a bridge-language between the different dialects of psychotherapies. Short specialized definitions,
such as Paradigm and State of Conscience, could be examples of the complex concepts, here denominated
synthetic �t� metaphors, transtheorical or Tran disciplinal, to be researched for constructing a common language
between the plurality of psychotherapies. Some implications of the methodological innovation carried on by
EMDR in psychology, psychotherapy, and in other disciplines are then analysed and proposed. In particular, the
easy integration of traditional psychotherapeutic methodologies with EMDR and the discovery of new target of
psychotherapy, have led to looking at all psychological activities in terms of a spatial metaphor. On the basis of
this a general map of the psychological territories of �sapiens sapiens� has been drafted. This general map is
divided in two main areas: A -the psychological territories of the individual, B -the psychological territories of the
species, This species map has some specific characteristics; since �sapiens sapiens� are social animals, their
relations have clear functions of social and environmental group interface too. These maps will be illustrated. In
its original meaning, the definition of Paradigm will be found within the maps and consequently analysed in its
variations. The amplified theory of State of Conscience will be presented and analysis, similar to the previous
one, will be carried out. A description of EMDR, that may be useful for implementing its understanding, will be
proposed at the end.
The title link is to an Introduction in Italian.
Keywords: Poster Unified Theory of Psychotherapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
268. Carse, K. (2013, February 4). Staten Islanders can ease the stress of Sandy's aftermath with counseling. Staten Island Advance. Retrieved from http://www.silive.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2013/02/ease_the_stress_of_sandys_aftermath_with_counseling.html on 2/5/2013.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Recommended by the Department of Defense and the American Psychiatric Association among many other organizations, EMDR uses a set of standardized protocols that incorporate elements from many different treatment approaches. It essentially shines a light on the emergency event or events stored in the more primitive brain allowing the event to be processed in a safe way, said Joyce Goldstein of West Brighton a family therapist and trained EMDR therapist.
Volunteer licensed and EMDR trained therapists from Staten Island, Manhattan and Boston will be available, several of whom have helped relieve suffering after September 11, Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti as part of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program.
Keywords: Hurricane Sandy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
269. Wesselmann, D. (2006, September). Strengthening parent-child attachments with EMDR. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Although professionals and parents are often challenged by the provocative behaviors exhibited
by children who have a history of pathogenic care
and a diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder,
children who-have attachment issues related to
more subtle problems in parenting may be equally
challenging. Negative family patterns related to
poor attachments, once established, can create a
negative feedback loop that is extremely difficult
to change. EMDR offers a method for resolving trauma and loss and changing beliefs, feelings, and responses that may interfere with trust and
the development of affectional bonds. Workshop
participants will learn to identify significant
precursors to attachment problems for EMDR
reprocessing with parents and with children. They
will learn methods to engage parents to do their
own atttachement work and to change their
automatic negative responses to their child's
behaviors. Participants will learn methods of
bilateral stimulation to strengthen feelings of
closeness and connection between parents and
children prior to EMDR reprocessing, and
methods for effectively utilizing parents during
EMDR with children in the treatment of
attachment problems. Workshop participants will
also learn how storytelling can be integrated into
treatment as a method to help solidify new
cognitions and develop a positive sense of self.
Keywords: Attachment Storytelling
Accuracy Verified: Yes
270. Armstrong, R. (2011, March). The subjective experiences of children following EMDR for PTSD following a single incident trauma. In EMDR research. Symposium (Derek Farrell, Chair) conducted at the 9th annual Conference of the EMDR UK & Ireland, Bristol.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This study explored the subjective experiences of children from 10 to 16 years who
had completed an episode of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following a single traumatic incident.
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to elucidate the participants understanding
of the effect of the EMDR therapy on their recovery from PTSD. Three super-ordinate themes are
identified describing how the participants engaged in the therapy, were assisted to keep going and
what they made of the EMDR process. Results suggest that difficulties in engaging in the therapy
were overcome by a combination of desperation and determination to get better, support of family
and friends, the credibility of the therapist and finding that they started to feel better after about
two sessions. EMDR was perceived as a surprisingly effective therapy in the light of almost universal
initial scepticism, and an approach that generally did not require a conscious effort by the participant
to make it work.
Keywords: Children Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis IPA Single Incident Trauma Subjective Experiences Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
271. Pelling, N., Brear, P., & Lau, M. (2006, June). A survey of advertised Australian counsellors. International Journal of Psychology, 41(3), 204-215, doi:10.1080/00207590544000202. .
Language: English
Format: Journal
As counselling is a developing profession without statutory regulation in Australia, anyone can engage in counselling practice and use counsellor as a professional title. Not much is known about those who call themselves counsellors in Australia. This survey research in a field setting aimed to describe Australian Yellow Pages Advertised Counsellors, thus providing a snapshot of advertised counsellors in Australia. This research was thus designed to describe those who are engaging in advertised counselling practice in Australia. Data was collected using a multiple mailing survey method and resulted in a 62.2% return rate. The counsellors' (1) demographic characteristics, (2) counselling training and development, (3) provision of counselling services, and (4) professional involvement were assessed. Advertised Australian counsellors tend to be female, mature, Caucasian, married or partnered, heterosexual, have families, and hold Christian beliefs. The majority of counsellors live in urban areas. The field could arguably benefit from increasing the diversity of its members. Nevertheless, advertised Australian counsellors are qualified professionals who tend to hold university qualifications and are likely to have received their training in counselling from a university provider. They are experienced service providers and engage in ongoing supervision as a supervisee. Moreover, these counsellors are involved in a variety of professional organizations. Advertised Australian counsellors, however, often struggle with issues related to burnout. They demonstrate their belief in the power of counselling by engaging in personal counselling. Advertised Australian counsellors actively engage in professional development, read professional journals, and report wanting further training regarding cognitive behaviour therapy, family therapy, EMDR, hypnosis, and trauma‐related difficulties. The majority of counsellors indicate making $40,000 or less per year. Survey results clearly indicate that the professionalisation of counselling is underway. Tandis que le counseling est une profession en développement sans régulation statutaire en Australie, n'importe qui peut s'engager dans la pratique du counseling et utiliser le titre professionnel de conseiller. Très peu est connu sur ceux qui se prétendent conseillers en Australie. Cette enquête visait à décrire les conseillers annonçant dans les pages jaunes en Australie, permettant d'avoir une image de ces derniers. Elle cherchait donc à décrire ceux qui étaient engagés dans la pratique du counseling publicisé en Australie. Les données furent collectées par le biais d'une méthode d'enquête par multiples envois postaux résultant à un taux de réponse de 62,2%. Les facteurs évalués chez les conseillers incluent: (a) les caractéristiques démographiques, (b) la formation et le développement en counseling, (c) les services desservis et (d) l'implication professionnelle. Les conseillers australiens publicisés tendent à montrer les caractéristiques suivantes: femmes, matures, caucasiens, mariés ou en couple, hétérosexuels, ayant une famille et ayant des croyances chrétiennes. La majorité des conseillers vivent dans les zones urbaines. Le domaine peut sans conteste bénéficier d'une plus grande diversité de ses membres. Néanmoins, les conseillers australiens publicisés sont des professionnels qualifiés qui tendent à posséder des qualifications universitaires et qui sont susceptibles d'avoir reçu leur formation en counseling d'une université. Les conseillers australiens publicisés sont des professionnels d'expérience et sont engagés dans de la supervision en tant que supervisés. De plus, ces conseillers sont impliqués dans une variété d'organizations professionnelles. Cependant, ils font souvent face à des problèmes reliés au burn‐out. Ils montrent leur croyance dans le pouvoir du counseling en recevant eux‐mêmes des services de counseling. Les conseillers australiens publicisés s'engagent activement dans le développement professionnel, ils lisent des revues professionnelles et ils rapportent vouloir davantage de formation sur la thérapie cognitivo‐comportementale, la thérapie familiale, la désensibilisation et le retraitement du mouvement de l'oeil, l'hypnose et les difficultés reliées aux traumatismes. La majorité d'entre eux indique faire 40,000$ ou moins par année. Les résultats de cette enquête indiquent clairement que la professionnalisation du counseling est sur la bonne voie. Debido a que en Australia el consejo es una profesión en desarrollo sin reglamentación estatutaria, cualquier persona pued.
Keywords: Counseling Counselor Characteristics Counselors Counselor Education Empirical Study Professional Development Professional Organizations Quantitative Study
Accuracy Verified: Yes
272. Nurse, R., Thompson, P., Moore, P., Greenwald, R., & Klaff, F. (1998, July). A symposium on EMDR and family therapy. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of EMDR International Association, Baltimore, MD.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will: 1) understand the theoretical basis of Kantor's Critical Identity Image approach to treating couples; 2) understand what Kantor's approach consists of on a methodological level; 3) understand how to add, or integrate, individual EMDR work with Kantor's approach; 4) be able to better understand the uses of EMDR in family therapy; 5) be able to identify some of the benefits of integrating individual and family components, as well as some of the cautions of doing so; 6) understand how serious medical illness effects family functioning; 7) understand how family functioning impacts on the level of wellness or illness of the child; and 8) learn ways of itnegrating EMDR into the treatment of seriously ill children and their families.
Keywords: Critical Identity Image Approach Couples Therapy Family Therapy Kantor Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
273. Tofani, L. R. (2003, May). Systemic family therapy and EMDR: Theoretical and practical considerations for their intergration. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Rome, Italy.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Conjoint use of systemic family therapy and EMDR is examined.
A young adult in the "leaving home" phase of the family life cycle, affected by panic attacks and concomitant anxious/depressive disorder has been treated following the systemic approach , with family sessions and individual sessions including the use of EMDR at specific times.
The clinical case is taken as an example for theoretical and practical considerations and for the analysis of the possible integration of the two approaches. This analysis underlines the use of EMDR as a "stimulating factor" in different moments of the family therapy treatment.
EMDR helped to focus and elaborate a strong but undefined feeling of serious personal danger in the young identified patient and, on the other side, it helped to define clusters of cognitive conflicts which prevented the development of more adaptive behaviors.
Elements that suggest a careful and skillful use of EMDR are presented together with the corresponding need for minor modifications, if associated with family therapy.
The aspect of timing individual sessions with EMDR is also considered. The problem of how to interweave elements deriving from EMDR sessions and contents deriving from family sessions is discussed and useful hints about the integration are suggested.
[Author abstract]
Keywords: Symposium Systemic Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
274. L'Abate, L. (1999). Taking the bull by the horns: Beyond talk in psychological interventions. The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 7(3), 206-220.
Language: English
Format: Journal
The purpose of this article is to argue that as long as the therapeutic community relies on commonly accepted sacred cows to produce results, little if any progress will take place. The five sacred cows of traditional psychological interventions (prevention, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation) are based on the following: (a) talk; (b) face-to-face contact; (c) the professionals proper style and personality; (d) adding family members, the more people the better; and (e) the more sessions the better. New psychological interventions that may challenge the sacred cows as we know them are as follows: (a) psychoeducational skill training programs; (b) computer assisted interventions, including verbal, visual (i.e., virtual reality), and neurobiofeedback; (c) manualized therapies; (d) eye movement desensitization and reprocessing; and (e) programmed distance writing, as exemplified by mental health workbooks. The latter is an inexpensive approach that can be administered concurrently with the new approaches as well as with talk-oriented interventions to obtain synergistic results. In addition, suggestions for minimally verbal and maximally action-oriented props and prescribed tasks are given.
Keywords: Commentary Computer Applications Computer Assisted & Programmed Distance Writing Interventions Oral Communication Preference to Traditional Talk-Oriented Techniques Therapeutic Processes Written Communication
Accuracy Verified: Yes
275. EMDRIA Public and Professional Relation & Standards & Training Committees. (2000). Ten compelling points. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Austin, TX.
Language: English
Format: Other
Written by the members of the Public and Professional Relations Committee of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA):
Sandra Foster, Ph.D., Chair, Douglas Cybela, Ph. D., Wendy Freirag. Ph.D.. Debbie Korn, Psy.D, and Deany Laliotis, LCSW-C and
members of the Standards and Training Committee, Curt Rouanzoin. PhD.,Chair, and Byron Perkins, Psy.D
We, the above-named authors, respond to those curious about and critical of EMDR with a series of points, each of which is discussed below.
Keywords: Compelling Points
Accuracy Verified: Yes
276. Smolinski, A. K. (2009, June). Terapia familiar (fásica) y EMDR: ¿pareja perfecta, unión de conveniencia, o enfoques rivales? [Family therapy (phasic) and EMDR: Perfect couple, a union of convenience or rival focuses?]. Mosaico, 42, 15-19.
Language: Spanish
Format: Magazine
Abstract: >br?El articulo pretende encuadrar la utilizacion de tecnnicas adicionales (en este case la estimulacion bilateral, EMDR) en el marco teorico-practico de la erapia Familiar Sistemica. Se explicala tecnica de EMDR y su integracion en el Model de la Terapi Familiar Fasica.
This article aims to frame the use of additional tecnnicas (in this case the bilateral stimulation, EMDR) in the theoretical and practical framework of Systemic Family Therapy. They explain EMDR technique and its integration in the Family Therapy Model (Phasic)
Keywords: Couples Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
277. Beccaria, P. (2009, Junio). Terapia familiar en EMDR [EMDR family therapy]. Presentación en el IX Congreso Internacional de Estrés Traumático y Trastornos de Ansiedad, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Keywords: Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
278. Beccaria, P. (2009, Junio). Terapia familiar en EMDR [EMDR family therapy]. Presentación en X Congreso Internacional de Estres Traumatico, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Keywords: Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
279. Seleme, M. O. S. (2008, Agosto). Terapia familiar: Psicodrama e EMDR, uma nova articulação psicoterápica [Family therapy, psychodrama and EMDR: A new psychotherapeutic alliance]. Presentación no Congreso VIII Brasileiro de Terapia Familiar, Gramado, Brasilia.
Language: Galician
Format: Conference
Keywords: Family Therapy Psychodrama
Accuracy Verified: Yes
280. Pedone, E. (2010, Gennaio-Giugo). Terapia familiare con l'ausilio dell'EMDR: Uno strumento forte per elaborare piccoli e grandi traumi vissuti dai bambini e dagli adulti [Family therapy with the aid of EMDR: A powerful instrument to process small and big traumas experienced by children and adults]. Ecologia della Mente, 33(1), 35-48, 0394-1310. doi:10.1712/514.6132.
Language: Italian
Format: Journal
Lutilizzo dellEye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) in molte situazioni di Terapia Familiare che ho trattato ha accelerato in modo efficace la risoluzione dei problemi. LEMDR viene definito dalla stessa ideatrice (Francine Shapiro) come un metodo usato fondamentalmente per accedere, elaborare e portare ad una risoluzione adattiva i ricordi di esperienze traumatiche, ricordi che stanno alla base dei disturbi psicologici attuali del paziente. Presenterò alcuni casi di terapia familiare e, per uno di essi, mi soffermerò su una seduta in cui, con lausilio dellEMDR, ho accompagnato la signora, che chiamerò Giulia, mamma del nucleo familiare in trattamento, nellelaborazione di un trauma vissuto 16 anni prima: la morte della figlia di 6 mesi. La signora Giulia durante la seduta ha rivisitato il ricordo traumatico esplicitando pensieri, sentimenti e reazioni fisiche legate allevento. Durante lelaborazione si è distanziata, si è rivista nel suo dolore e ne ha avuto compassione, poi ha favorito laccesso di pensieri positivi congelati in tutti questi anni. La cosa sorprendente è quanto accaduto in una singola seduta, tale elaborazione si ottiene in periodi molto più lunghi di psicoterapia.
The use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in several cases of Family Therapy I treated effectively accelerated the resolution of problems. The EMDR is defined by its originator, Francine Shapiro, as a method mainly used to access, process the memories of traumatic experiences, memories that trigger the patient's current psychological disorders, and to lead to their adaptive resolution. I will describe a few cases of family therapy and, for one of them, I will focus on a session in which, with the help of the EMDR, I accompanied the patient, whom I will call Giulia (the mother in the family undergoing treatment), in the reprocessing of a trauma she experienced 16 years earlier: the death of her 6-month-old daughter. During the session, Giulia revisited the traumatic memory by expressing thoughts, feelings, and physical reactions linked to the event. During the processing phase, she distanced herself, she saw herself again in her pain, felt compassion for it, and then she favored the access to positive thoughts that had been frozen for all those past years. The surprising aspect is that the processing took place in a single session, something that usually requires a much longer psychotherapy treatment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Emotional Trauma Family Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
281. Beswick, K. (2008, June). Theory and practice at the interface of EMDR and systemic psychotherapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, London, England .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Theory - EMDR can be seen as working on one level of the human system - the neurobiological level. However
the human brain is formed and is constantly changed by its interactions with others. The neurobiology of
relationships is an expanding field and I will be arguing that EMDR and systemic theory have much to offer each
other at this juncture. I will be putting forward my ideas about the scope for creative thinking and practice at the
interface of these paradigms. By utilizing the clients relationships and seeing them as a resource in the EMDR,
EMDR practitioners can facilitate change at that wider level. In order to make the presentation accessible to
those who are not particularly familiar with current systemic theory, I will briefly outline some of the main
systemic principles currently in use. Practice - I will illustrate my theoretical points with examples from my EMDR
practice where I have: 1) included more than one family member in the room at the same time; 2) where parallel
work has been done with the family and the individual; and 3) where I have incorporated significant systemic
thinking into my work with an individual. These examples will demonstrate skills in applying EMDR within a
broad systemic frame. They will illustrate how EMDR can enhance relationships, and conversely, how systemic
thinking can enhance the application of EMDR.
Keywords: Practice Systematic Psychotherapy Theory
Accuracy Verified: Yes
282. Cano, D. (1992, November 26). Therapists to help hurricane victims. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Times.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Two Orange County therapists will
spend the holidays in South Florida to
help survivors of Hurricane Andrew.
which decimated the area last summer.
Judy Albert, a Huntington Beach
marriage, family and child counselor, is
leaving today to help hurricane survivors deal with anxiety, depression and
other disorders.
Keywords: General Los Angeles Overview Ruth Knowles Grainger
Accuracy Verified: Yes
283. Rosenthal, H. 2006. Therapy's best: Practical advice and gems of wisdom from twenty accomplished counselors and therapists. Binghamton, NY, London: Haworth Reference.
Language: English
Format: Book
Insightful interviews with a Whos Who of the worlds foremost therapists
Therapys Best is a lively and entertaining collection of one-on-one interviews with some of the top therapists and counselors in the world. Educator and psychotherapist Dr. Howard G. Rosenthal talks with twenty of therapys legends, including Albert Ellis, arguably the greatest clinical psychologist and therapist of our time; assertiveness training pioneer Robert Alberti; experiential psychotherapist Al Mahrer; and William Glasser, the father of reality therapy and choice theory. Each interview reveals insights into the therapists personal lives, their observations on counseling, and the helping profession in general, and their thoughts on what really works when dealing with clients in need.
The interviews found in Therapys Best uncover treatment strategies that are often missing from traditional textbooks, journal articles, courses, and seminars related to assertiveness training, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), marriage and family counseling, transactional analysis, psychoanalysis, suicide prevention, voice therapy, experiential psychotherapy, and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT). Conversations with the best and brightest (including two recipients of the American Psychological Associations Division of Psychotherapys Living Legends award) reveal why these therapists are such effective helpers, what makes their theories so popular, and most important, what makes them tick. This unique book lets you rub elbows with these consummate professionals and learn more about their theories, ideas, and experiences.
Therapys Best includes interviews with:
Dr. Albert Elliscreator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and APA Division of Psychotherapy Living Legend
Dr. Edwin Schneidmanthe foremost expert on suicide prevention, suicidology, and thanatology
Richard Nelson Bollesauthor of What Color Is Your Parachute?
Dr. Dorothy and Dr. Ray Bevcarhusband and wife therapists who write textbooks on marriage counseling
Dr. Al Mahrerfather of experiential psychotherapy and APA Division of Psychotherapy Living Legend
Les Greenbergfather of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Muriel Jamesco-author of Born to Win
and many more!
Therapys Best is a must read for professionals who practice counseling and psychotherapy, students preparing to do likewise, and anyone else with an interest in therapyand the people with provide it
Keywords: Francine Shapiro Interview Practice Theory
Accuracy Verified: Yes
284. Robinson, N. S. (2001). Time-line EMDR. EMDRIA Newsletter, 6(3), 4-5.
Language: English
Format: Conference
We often find clients who are not satisfied with their life
situation, are underfunctioning, or have negative thoughts/
cognitions about themselves. These issues persist in spite of
successful lives or significant amounts of therapy. Trauma concerns
are either non-existent or resolved. Existing EMDR techniques such
as Resource Development and Installation (Deborah Korn, Andrew
Leeds), Performance Enhancement (Lendl & Foster, 1997) or doing a
float back can be tried with these clients. RDI can strengthen clients
and increase their ability to cope. Performance protocol can help them
improve functioning with mental rehearsals. The float back technique
can put them in touch with affect and accompanying bodily sensations
which can help identify blocking beliefs or identify early events still
impacting current difficulties. These techniques have not always been
sufficient for some of my clients. I have turned to my family systems
training in order to expand my clinical resources. Family systems
reminds us that negative and positive messages, beliefs, loyalties and
ways of being are passed down through generations and have a farreaching
impact on each of us. I have developed a time-line technique
that allows me to use EMDR to tap into historical and cultural sources
to help clients clear through blockages as well as discover new personal
Accuracy Verified: Yes
285. Knudsen, N. J., & LaForte, J. (2000, September). Towards an accelerated differentiation of self: EMDR and Bowen theory. Presentatiom at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participant will: 1) develop a working knowledge of the main concepts of Murray Bowen's theory of family systems - diffentiation of self, multi-generational transmission process, triangles, and family emotional field; 2) be able to identify the appropriate use of EMDR in the family of original based treatment; and 3) have the basis to apply key concepts and therapeutic interventions to their own clients.
Keywords: Bowen Theory Theory of Family Systems
Accuracy Verified: Yes
286. Nilsson, D., & Jonsson, M. (2010, April). Towards healing of a trauma that led to conversion-dissociation. Presentation at the 2nd Bi-Annual Internatinal European Society for Trauma and Dissociation Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This is a case study of a 17 year old adolescent who came in contact with Child and adolescent psychiatry at an inward basis, screening for dissociation gave very high dissociative symptom on Dis-Q-Sweden; 3.6 total scale, 3.88, 4.00, 2.64 and 3.5 on the subscales, she also had high scores on Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children. After screening a SCID- interview was done and she had symptoms of amnesia, derealizaition, depersonalization and identity confusion.
We will describe the psychotherapy with this adolescent girl, different stages of therapy individual work with tf-cbt- EMDR and symboldrama-, family work with much work with not before worked with traumatic experiences. In the presentation we will connect to attachment theories of dissociation, dissociation in a generational perspective and theories of multimodal approach to dissociation.
Keywords: Conversion Disorder Dissociation
Accuracy Verified: Yes
287. Aduriz, M. E. (2007, Novembro). Trabajando creativamente con EMDR en niños y familia [Working creatively with EMDR children and family]. Presentación en el Primer Congreso Iberoamericano de EMDR, Brasilia, Brasil.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Los Objetivos del taller serán adquirir mayor
eficiencia trabajando sobre trauma en niños:
Como tomar la historia del niño a través de
los padres y detectar situaciones traumáticas.
Los estresores traumáticos en el niño y su
diferencia con el adulto.
The objectives of the workshop will become more
efficiency work on trauma in children:
How to take the child's history through
parents and detect traumatic situations.
traumatic stressors in children and
difference with the adult.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
288. Aduriz, M. E. (2007, Novembro). Trabajando creativamente con EMDR en niños y familia - Como implementar EMDR en familias con niños [Working creatively with EMDR children and family - How to implement EMDR in families with children]. Pós-conferência Apresentação no I Congresso Ibero-Americano de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
En entrevistas con la familia de niños se puede
detectar y trabajar:
Creencias limitantes
Ganancias secundarias sostenidas en el grupo,
Que hacer si el trauma intrafamiliar es actual
Como intervenir en un apego inadecuados en
padres e hijos.
Los padres como ayuda y sostén del cambio
en el trabajo con EMDR.
In interviews with the family of children can be
detect and work:
Limiting beliefs
sustained high earnings in the group,
What to do if the trauma is current domestic
How to intervene in an inappropriate attachment
parents and children.
Parents as help and support of change
working with EMDR.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
289. Aduriz, M. E. (2007, Novembro). Trabajando creativamente con EMDR en niños y familia - Como motivar al niño a usar EMDR [Working creatively with EMDR children and family - How to motivate the child to use EMDR]. Presentación en el Primer Congreso Iberoamericano de EMDR, Brasilia, Brasil.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Como aplicar las 8 fases a distintas edades en
relación a:
Informar que es EMDR y que sucede en el
Acceder a la Estimulación Bilateral como una
experiencia segura
Maneras de armar y amplificar la función del
Lugar Seguro
Introducir el I C E S (Imagen- Creencia
Emoción Sensación Corporal).y las Escalas
del SUD y VOC
Reconocimiento y tolerancia de las emociones Fase de desensibilización. Su diferencia con
los adultos.
Como detectar y superar: ab-reacciones -
bloqueos riesgo de disociación
Modos de instalar y amplificar la creencia
Como hacer cierre de sesión en las distantes
edades y situaciones
Importancia del Seguimiento o reevaluación
con la ayuda de los padres.
How to apply the 8 stages at different ages in
relation to:
Report is EMDR and what happens in the
Access to a Bilateral Stimulation
safe experience
Ways to set up and amplify the role of
Safe Place
Enter the I C E S (Picture-Belief -
Emotion - Feeling Body). And Scales
of SUD and VOC
Recognition and tolerance of emotions Phase desensitization. The difference with
How to identify and overcome: ab-reactions -
blocks - the risk of dissociation
Ways to set up and amplify the belief
How to logout in the distant
ages and situations
Importance of monitoring or reassessment
with the help of parents.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
290. Sautai, G. (2009, Février). Traitement des intoxications psychiques (troubles traumatiques du developpment pour les anglophones) par limmersion EMDR [Psychological treatment of poisoning (trauma disorders in the development process for anglophones) by immersion EMDR]. EMDRRevue, Theorie et Clinique therapeutiques.
Language: French
Format: Other
Certains patients sont amenés à évoluer durant les premières années de leur vie dans une structure familiale (ou de substitution) et sociale qui peut présenter un/des dysfonctionnements atteignant leur développement en fonction de leur personnalité et/ou de leur sensibilité génétique. Ceci entraîne de façon très insidieuse, ce que nous appelons en référence aux travaux de Jacques Roques, des Empoisonnements Psychiques dus à un/des Troubles Traumatiques du Développement (TTD).
Some patients are likely to evolve in the early years of their lives in a family structure (or substitute) and may have a social / dysfunction reaching their development according to their personality and / or their genetic susceptibility. This results in a very insidious, what we call in reference to the work of Jacques Roques, and poisonings due to a Psychic / Traumatic Disorders of Development (TTD).
Keywords: Psychic/Traumatic Disorders of Development
Accuracy Verified: Yes
291. Coste, L. (2007, Juin). Traitement EMDR d'une anorexie dan le cadre d'une thérapie globale et familiale [EMDR treatment of anorexia dangerous part of a comprehensive therapy and family]. Affiche présentée à la réunion annuelle de l'Association EMDR Europe, Paris, France.
Language: French
Format: Conference
Voici le cadre du traitement dune anorexie chez une adolescente, Annie, 13 ans. Le traitement a duré 10 mois.
Annie est née cinq ans après une demi-soeur, Joanna, 18 ans. Joana na pas même père. Le père dAnnie a accepté ladoption.
Le père, dAnnie, la mère, Annie et Joana vivent sous le même toit. Annie entre difficilement dans ladolecence, alors que Joana sexhibe depuis quelques mois avec son compagnon dans la chambre contiguë de celle dAnnie. Les rapports sexuels particiliers sont utilises par Joana à la fois comme instrument de vengeiance envers sa demi-soeur, et encore pour attirer lattention de des parents sa problématique liée à son arrive dans la famille.
Joana souhaite ainsi impliquer et irriter houte la famille pour résoudre un conflit interne.
Elle réussit à persécuter Annie qui entre dans une phase aiguë de régression avec le souhait de se fonder en sa mère, au point de devoir dormer à ses côtés. Annie développe progressive une depersonalization. Pour autant, Joans ne tente as de sapproprier sin beau-père: au contraite, elle le rejette dautant plue quelle se rend très souvent sur les lieux de père-géniteur dont a elle retrouvé les traces.
Cette situation culpabilise a posteriori un beau-père qui estime avoir éléve sa belle-fille avec amour. Sa position de chef de famille est remise en cause. La situation culpabilise également la mère qui avait pourtant choisi de garder Joana plutôt que davorter. Joana gignote de jour en our le territoire de sa dem-soeur sans poor autant vouloir continuer à sinsérer dans cette famille.
Le traitement préconisé sera:
- dans un premier temps, denrayer rapidement la dénutrition dAnnie par traitement EMDR (cogntions autour de lestime de soi) puis traitement dune peur de mourir (cognitions liées à la sécurité/survie), suivi du choix de réussiré (congitions liées à la possibilité de contrôle).
- de suivre en alternance les parents, Annie et Joana;
- dans un second temps, de suivre Annie et Joana;
- dans un troisième temps de traiter par EMDR quelques peurs chez Joana et abaisser son irritation en famille, puis preparer son depart.
- Séance après séance, Annie se réappropriera son corps grâce à un imagination et une activité onirique du veille mises au service de la guérison. Annie parviendra finalement à croire en la possibilité de réussir sa vie.
Here the treatment of anorexia in a teen, Annie, 13. The treatment lasted 10 months.
Annie was born five years after a half-sister, Joanna, 18. Joana has not even father. Annie's father accepted the adoption.
The father of Annie, mother, Annie and Joana live under the same roof. Annie easily into the adolecents, while Joana showing off for several months with his companion in the room next to that of Annie. Sex particiliers are used by Joana both as an instrument of vengeiance to his half-sister, and again to draw the attention of his parents' problems related to his arrival in the family.
Joana hopes to involve and irritate houte family to resolve an internal conflict.
She managed to persecute Annie enters a critical phase of regression with the desire to rely on his mother, to the point of having to sleep on his side. Annie develops a gradual depersonalization. However, no attempts have Joans sin to appropriate father-to Constrain, she rejects all Plue it goes very often on-site parent whose father she has found the traces.
This guilty post a stepfather who feels his pupil step-daughter with love. His position as head of family is challenged. The situation also blames the mother who nevertheless chose to keep rather than abort Joana. Joana gignote from day o the territory of its dem-sister without all the poor would continue to fit into this family.
The recommended treatment is:
- Initially, to stem the rapid wasting of Annie by EMDR treatment (cogntions around self-esteem) and subsequent treatment of a fear of dying (cognitions related to safety / survival), followed by the choice of "réussiré (congitions related to the possibility of control).
- Follow-linked parents, Annie and Joana;
- A second time, Annie and follow Joana;
- A third time to deal with some fears among EMDR Joana and lowering his irritation with the family, then prepare his departure.
- Session after session, Annie reclaim his body with an active imagination and dream of a day in the service of healing. Annie finally succeed to believe in the possibility of "successful" life.
Keywords: Anorexia Eating Disorders Family Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
292. Mosquera, D. (2012, June). Trastorno narcisista de la personalidad y EMDR [Narcissitic personality disorder and EMDR]. Presentación en el IX Congreso Nacional de Trastornos de la Personalidad. Asociación Española para el Estudio de los Trastornos de la Personalidad. Zaragoza, Spain.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
La descripción de la DSM-IV del trastorno de personalidad narcisista se centra en las cualidades "externas" del narcisismo (grandiosidad, explotación de otros, arrogancia, problemas interpersonales y rabia) mientras que omite las características "internas" menos obvias y más sutiles (tendencia a ser sensitivos a la vergüenza, introvertidos, vulnerables, inhibidos y tendentes a la ansiedad: Gabbard, 1989). Las características narcisistas de grandiosidad son a menudo asociadas a la personalidad del abusador, pero ambas formas de narcisismo pueden ser relevantes tanto en víctimas como en familiares "no abusadores".
Una característica central del narcisismo es la falta de empatía. Los rasgos narcisistas y antisociales pueden ser el resultado final de un entorno negligente, de abuso crónico o de una valoración excesiva. Los problemas de apego con los cuidadores principales pueden dar lugar a falta de empatía y egocentrismo.
En esta presentación se realizará una descripción de diferentes perfiles caracterizados por egocentrismo, actitud egoísta y falta de empatía. Se planteará la patología narcisista desde la perspectiva del trauma y el abordaje con EMDR.
The description of the DSM-IV narcissistic personality disorder focuses on the qualities of "outside" of narcissism (grandiosity, exploitation of others, arrogance, anger and interpersonal problems) while omitting features "internal" less obvious and more subtle (tendency to be sensitive to shame, introverted, vulnerable, inhibited and prone to anxiety: Gabbard, 1989). Grandiose narcissistic characteristics are often associated with the personality of the abuser, but both forms of narcissism may be relevant to both victims and family members "not abusive".
A central feature of narcissism is a lack of empathy. Narcissistic and antisocial traits may be the end result of a negligent environment of chronic abuse or excessive valuation. The problems of attachment with primary caregivers may result in lack of empathy and self-centeredness.
This presentation will be a description of different profiles characterized by selfishness, selfish and lack of empathy. We will examine the narcissistic pathology from the perspective of trauma and EMDR approach.
Keywords: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Accuracy Verified: Yes
293. Castello, A. G. L. (2012, Novembro). Tratamento de fobias e traumas em crianças através do EMDR [Treatment of phobias and trauma in children through EMDR]. In EMDR na infância. Apresentação no II Congresso Brasileiro de EMDR, Brasília, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Este trabalho foi realizado numa Clínica Pediátrica, CLIAP, em São Paulo, Brasil, com 450 crianças na idade de 0 a 12 anos. Estas crianças vieram para tratamento psicológico com queixas de fobias e traumas simples e complexos. Foram utilizados 2850 protocolos de EMDR individual com as crianças e 220 protocolos individuais com os pais. Estes pais vieram para tratamento psicológico por intermédio do pediatra da clínica com queixas de dificuldades na condução do papel parental. Objetivos: Este trabalho é o início de uma pesquisa com EMDR com crianças, onde a técnica é utilizada como articulação metodológica no trabalho terapêutico com crianças e pais nas diversas situações de vida familiar, e tem sido realizado nos últimos cinco anos. Os atendimentos são feitos com EMDR individuais com as crianças e EMDR individuais com os pais quando necessário. Resultados: conseguimos obter um processamento das situações que foram trazidas como queixas pelos pais e pelas crianças, onde aparecem processos terapêuticos evidenciados pela elaboração dos traumas da Matriz de Identidade ligados a essas situações e o reprocessamento e rematrizações obtidas pelo EMDR.
This work was performed in a Pediatric Clinic, CLIAP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with 450 children age 0-12 years. These children came to treatment complaining of psychological traumas and phobias simple and complex. We used 2850 individual EMDR protocols with children and 220 parents with individual protocols. These parents came to psychological treatment through the pediatric clinic with complaints of difficulties in conducting the parental role. Objectives: This study is the beginning of a survey of EMDR with children, where the technique is used as methodological articulation in therapeutic work with children and parents in diverse situations of family life, and has been held in the past five years. Services are made with individual EMDR with children and individual EMDR with parents when necessary. Results: we can get a processing situations that were brought as complaints by parents and children, where they appear therapeutic processes evidenced by the development of trauma Matrix Identity linked to these situations and reprocessing and rematrizações obtained by EMDR.
Keywords: Children, Phobias Processing Traumas
Accuracy Verified: Yes
294. Castello, A. L. (2008, Agosto). Tratamento de fobias e traumas em crianças através do sociodrama familiar e EMDR [Treatment of phobias and trauma in children through role-play family and EMDR]. Em Terapia Familiar: Psicodrama e EMDR, Uma Nova Articulação Psicoterápica (Maria Olívia Schwalb Seleme, Coordenação). Mesa redonda 47 Congresso Brasileiro de Terapia Familiar III Encontro de Pesquisadores, Gramado-RS, Brasil .
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Keywords: Children Phobias Role Play Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
295. Zampieri, P. (2008, Agosto). Tratamento de pânico e crises de ansiedade pelo sociodrama familiar e EMDR [Treatment of panic and anxiety attacks by role-play family and EMDR]. Em Terapia Familiar: Psicodrama e EMDR, Uma Nova Articulação Psicoterápica (Maria Olívia Schwalb Seleme, Coordenação). Mesa redonda 47 VIII Congresso Brasileiro de Terapia Familiar III Encontro de Pesquisadores, Gramado-RS, Brasil.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Conference
Keywords: Anxiety Attacks Panic Attacks Role Play
Accuracy Verified: Yes
296. Robredo, J. (2011, Julio). Tratamiento con EMDR en menores victimas de abuso [EMDR treatment with children victims of abuse]. En Aplicación de EMDR en el tratamiento de distintos trastornos (Francisca García Guerrero, Coordinadora). Simposio realizado en el IX Congreso Nacional de Psicología Clínica, San Sebastián, España .
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
Las estadísticas acerca del maltrato físico de los niños son alarmantes. Se estima que
cientos de miles de niños han recibido abuso y maltrato a manos de sus padres o parientes.
Los que sobreviven el abuso, viven marcados por el trauma emocional, que perdura mucho
después de que las consecuencias físicas hayan desaparecido. A menudo el daño emocional
severo a los niños maltratados no se refleja hasta la adolescencia, o aún más tarde, cuando
muchos de estos niños maltratados se convierten en padres abusivos y comienzan a
maltratar a sus propios hijos. El reconocer y dar tratamiento inmediato es importante para
minimizar los efectos a largo plazo causados por el abuso o maltrato físico.
En este sentido, en los últimos años venimos trabajando con menores que han sido
víctimas de abuso, negligencia, violencia familiar o abandono. El abordaje terapéutico
desde el EMDR se muestra como un paradigma muy eficaz a la hora de trabajar con niños y
menores. El trabajo con la red de recuerdos y el reprocesamiento de recuerdos traumáticos
ayuda a su recuperación. A través de los dibujos que los niños han ido haciendo en las
sesiones se observa como el reprocesamiento en el niño es diferente al del adulto. Además
la etapa del desarrollo del niño interfiere tanto en el modo de procesar información
traumática como en la construcción de los recuerdos y su posterior reprocesamiento. Por
lo que los protocolos de EMDR en el niño son diferentes a los del adulto para que sean
igualmente eficaces.
En esta comunicación se presenta el protocolo de trabajo para tratar a los menores
víctimas de abuso, desarrollado desde la perspectiva de EMDR, exhibiendo cómo funciona
el protocolo a través de la presentación de los datos que se han ido recogiendo durante la
aplicación del programa de intervención.
The statistics on physical child abuse are alarming. It is estimated that
hundreds of thousands of children are physically abused by their parents or relatives.
Those who survive abuse, living marked by the emotional trauma remains long
after the physical consequences are gone. Often the emotional damage
severely abused children is not reflected until adolescence or even later, when
many of these abused children become abusive parents and begin to
abuse their own children. Early recognition and treatment is important for
minimize long-term effects caused by abuse or physical abuse.
In this regard, in recent years we have been working with children who have been
victims of abuse, neglect, family violence or neglect. The therapeutic approach
from the EMDR appears as a very effective paradigm for working with children and
minors. Working with the memory network and reprocessing of traumatic memories
aid their recovery. Through drawings children have been doing in the
sessions were observed as the reprocessing in children is different from the adult. also
stage of child development interfere much in the way of processing information
traumatic as the construction of memories and subsequent reprocessing. by what EMDR protocols in children are different from the adult to be
equally effective. In this paper we present the working protocol for dealing with juveniles
victims of abuse, developed from the perspective of EMDR, showing how protocol through the presentation of the data have been collected during the implementation of the intervention program.
Keywords: Abuse Children Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
297. Robredo, J. (2011, Julio). Tratamiento intensivo para madres victimas de violencia de genero. La reconstruccion del apego [Intensive treatment for mothers victims of gender violence. The reconstruction of attachment]. Presentación en la IX Congreso Nacional de Psicología Clínica, San Sebastian, Spain.
Language: Spanish
Format: Conference
El Instituto de Psicotrauma de Alicante en colaboración con los Servicios Sociales de
diversos Ayuntamientos de la Comunidad Valenciana aplican desde 2009 un protocolo de intervención para madres víctimas de violencia de género, basado en las técnicas de desensibilización y reprocesamiento a través del movimiento de los ojos, EMDR© (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), teorías del apego ( John Bowlby) y teoría de la disociación estructural de la personalidad (Ono Van der Hart)
Los resultados observados en una muestra de 15 madres y sus hijos de 4 a 16 años
indican una desaparición de los cuadros clínicos de estrés postraumático y depresión, la
remisión de los problemas de conducta concomitantes (desobediencia, agresividad) y una
mejora del vínculo afectivo con la madre.
El protocolo de intervención consta de 5 fases: evaluación, psicoeducación, tratamiento, prevención de recaídas y seguimiento
La evaluación consta de sendas entrevistas clínicas y la administración de la Escala
de Ansiedad Manifiesta en Niños (CMAS‐R), la Escala de Gravedad de Síntomas del Estrés
Postraumático, el Test del Dibujo de la Familia (niñ@s menores de 6 años) y el cuestionario para la evaluación de adoptantes (CUIDA). El tratamiento consiste en la instalación de recursos con la madre y reprocesamiento con EMDR a lo largo de 20 sesiones trabajando con los recuerdos traumáticos de la madre y el menor asociados a la violencia vivida en la familia. El
reprocesamiento del niño se hace junto a la madre.
El formato de tratamiento es intensivo con 5 sesiones de terapia semanal durante 4
semanas. El 100% de los menores y las mujeres atendidas experimentaron la remisión de sus
síntomas de ansiedad y en el 80% de los casos desaparecieron sus problemas de conducta
en el entorno familiar y escolar. Además se observó que el tipo de apego había cambiado al
final de tratamiento.
The Institute of Alicante Psychotrauma in collaboration with Social Services
various municipalities of Valencia since 2009 implemented a protocol
intervention for mothers victims of domestic violence, based on techniques
desensitization and reprocessing through eye movement, EMDR © (Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), attachment theory (Bowlby) and theory
structural dissociation of the personality (Van der Hart Ono).
The results of a sample of 15 mothers and their children aged 4 to 16 years
indicate a disappearance of clinical PTSD and depression,
remission of comorbid conduct problems (disobedience, aggression) and a
improvement bond with the mother.
The intervention protocol consists of 5 phases: assessment, psychoeducation,
treatment, relapse prevention and monitoring
The assessment consists of separate clinical interviews and administration of the Scale
in Children's Manifest Anxiety (CMAS-R), the Symptom Severity Scale Stress
Posttraumatic Drawing Test Family (children 's children under 6 years) and
questionnaire for the assessment of adopters (CARE).
Treatment involves the installation of resources with the mother and
EMDR reprocessing over 20 sessions working with the memories traumatic mother and child associated with violence experienced domestically. The reprocessing of the child is with the mother. The format is intensive treatment with 5 sessions of weekly therapy for 4
weeks. 100% of children and women treated experienced remission of their
anxiety symptoms and 80% of cases behavioral problems disappeared in the family and school. We observed that the attachment classification was changed to end of treatment.
Keywords: Attachment Gender Violence
Accuracy Verified: Yes
298. Mevissen, L., & Lievegoed, R. (2010, June). Trauma and institutionalization - EMDR: A tool to cure, relieve or prevent. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Hamburg, Germany.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Because of their vulnerability children as well as adults
with developmental disorders are supposed to be at greater risk to suffer from the disruptive effects of trauma or cumulating
negative life events. Resulting psychopathology or behavioral
problems might bring them into contact with institutional psychiatric
or educational care.
On the basis of four video-illustrated clinical vignettes various aspects
according the use of EMDR are discussed.
Institutionalization in itself can be traumatizing as shown by
EMDR treatment of an adult with autism and traumatic memories
of being outplaced and long-term isolated.
Outplacement might be a consequence of untreated trauma. EMDR
can relieve suffering as shown by the treatment of a 12-year
old boy with behavioral problems who's family ties were broken.
Outplacement can be traumatic and as a consequence block
personal growth as illustrated by the case of a 48-year old man
with mild to moderate intellectual disability and autism, who
had been institutionalized at the age of 8.
Desperate parents regain educational skills by using a combination
of EMDR and intensive psychiatric family support as illustrated
by the case of an 8 years old girl with supposed multi-complex
developmental disorder (McDD).
Adaptations of the standard protocol might be necessary when
using EMDR in patients with psychiatric disorders as shown in
two of the cases that will be presented.
As posttraumatic stress symptoms can be manifested differently
in this population there is a risk of diagnostic errors.
Learning objectives: Participants take note of possibilities to
make EMDR beneficial to the institutionalized population; are
able to identify adaptations to the EMDR protocol required by
particular needs of clients with developmental disorders; are
able to use EMDR to help parents to overcome the trauma of
having a child with developmental disorders; become aware of
nonspecific symptoms of trauma in this special population.
Keywords: Institutionalization
Accuracy Verified: Yes
299. Schleyer, M. A. (2000, July). The trauma client's experience of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A heuristic analysis. Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH. AAT 9958854 .
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
Traumatic stress and its impact on the individual, family and society have been described in the literature for over one hundred years. Controversy exists regarding etiology, determinants and therapeutic intervention for traumatic stress. There is limited research regarding the comparative value of treatment of trauma. In 1989 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) emerged as a therapeutic intervention for traumatic stress. Studies have shown the benefits of EMDR to be equal to or superior to those of other therapies in the treatment of PTSD. To date, the value of EMDR has been measured primarily by the decrease or amelioration of symptoms. Limited research has focused on the client's experience of EMDR and life changes after EMDR. The specific aim of this study was to: (a) generate a description of the personal experience of the EMDR process, (b) identify whether life changes had occurred after EMDR, and (c) if any life changes had occurred describe the changes and the nature of these changes.Data were collected via unstructured interviews with seven individuals who had experienced some form of trauma, and who had experienced EMDR as a therapeutic intervention for trauma. Van Manen's and Heidegger's interpretive processes were used to guide the method of data analysis. The shared meanings identified were: (a) Set-up for Harm, (b) Being Stuck, (c) Willing to Risk in Spite of..., (d) Release, (e) Movement and (f) Ongoing Movement. The participants all described childhood events of being put in harm's way. As adults participants felt frustrated with their inability to change personal and relational alienation which resulted from the childhood events. However, in spite of incredulity and fears, risking the experience of EMDR was primarily dependent on trust in the therapist. All experienced emotional, cognitive and physical release in response to the EMDR experience which allowed participants to move forward with their lives. [Author Abstract]
Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering. 61(1-B), Jul 2000, pp. 549.
Keywords: Adults Americans Empirical Study Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychotherapeutic Processes PTSD Stressors Survivors Treatment Effectiveness
Accuracy Verified: Yes
300. Ricci, R. J. (2004). Trauma resolution treatment as an adjunct to standard treatment for sexual offenders. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. AAT 3136393.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
This study explored the use of adding trauma resolution therapy to standard cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention therapy for sex offenders. Ten adjudicated sex offenders with sexual abuse histories were treated with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as an adjunct to standard outpatient sex offender treatment. Data points include self-report, other-report, assessment instruments, session transcripts, research journals, and physiological measures. Systematic treatment research and development methods (Bischoff, McKeel, Moon, & Sprenkle, 1996) resulted in a proposed treatment protocol. Emergent themes from a cross-case, grounded theory data analysis are presented. The data suggests the adjunct treatment provided some benefit both to participants and to the goals of standard sex offender-specific treatment. Implications for treatment providers, marriage and family therapy, and future research are discussed.
Keywords: Sex Offenders Trauma Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
301. Lescano, R. & Arazi, D. (2004). Trauma y EMDR: Un nuevo abordaje terapeutico [Trauma and EMDR: A new therapeutic approach]. Buenos Aires: EMDRIA Latinoamérica.
Language: Spanish
Format: Book
Este libro, el primero sobre EMDR escrito por un grupo de profesionales argentinos, incluye tres partes: La primera es Trauma y Teorías asociadas : en estos capítulos se explora la historia de las teorías actuales, llegando a la redefinición de algunas categorías diagnósticas, consecuencia de una nueva manera de ver el efecto de las experiencias traumáticas sobre los individuos. Proceso que involucra aspectos biológicos, psicológicos, familiares y sociales.
La segunda parte, EMDR: un nuevo abordaje terapéutico , incluye capítulos teóricos sobre el método bajo la supervisión de los trainers habilitados por el EMDR Institute. Los capítulos van desde la teoría básica del EMDR, pasando por la creatividad hasta llegar a la compleja especulación neurobiológica de su funcionamiento.
El conocimiento del cerebro junto con la inspiración de la Dra. Shapiro que condujo al descubrimiento y desarrollo del EMDR, son los puntales del método y su vínculo con la creatividad. El reprocesamiento con EMDR es también un proceso esencialmente creativo, fundamental para poder levantar el bloqueo resultante del trauma. La relación terapéutica que se instala durante el reprocesamiento de EMDR puede ser conceptualizada como un proceso co-creativo (D. Grand Ph.D.)
La tercera parte incluye casos clínicos, como corresponde a un libro dedicado a una técnica de demostrada eficacia.
This book, the first on EMDR written by a group of Argentine professionals, consists of three parts: the first is "Trauma and associated theory" : these chapters explores the history of current theories reaching the redefinition of some diagnostic categories, result of a new way to see the effect of traumatic experiences on individuals. Process involving biological, psychological, family and social aspects.
The second part, "EMDR: a new therapeutic approach", includes theoretical chapters on the method under the supervision of the enabled trainers by theEMDR Institute. Chapters range from basic theory of theEMDR, passing through the creativity to complex operation neurobiological speculation.
Knowledge of the brain along with "the inspiration of the DRA." Shapiro that led to the discovery and development of the EMDR are the underpinnings of the method and its link with the creativity. Reprocessing with EMDR is also a process essentially creative, fundamental to lift the trauma resulting blocking. The therapeutic relationship installed during reprocessing ofEMDR can be conceptualized as a co-creativo process (D. Grand Ph.d..)
The third part includes clinical cases as befits a book dedicated to a proven technique.
Keywords: Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
302. Lescano, R. (2005). Trauma y EMDR: Un nuevo abordaje terapéutico [Trauma and EMDR: A new therapeutic approach]. Buenos Aires: EMDRIA Latinoamerica.
Language: Spanish
Format: Book
Este libro, el primero sobre EMDR escrito por un grupo de profesionales argentinos, incluye tres partes: La primera es Trauma y Teorías asociadas : en estos capítulos se explora la historia de las teorías actuales, llegando a la redefinición de algunas categorías diagnósticas, consecuencia de una nueva manera de ver el efecto de las experiencias traumáticas sobre los individuos. Proceso que involucra aspectos biológicos, psicológicos, familiares y sociales.
La segunda parte, EMDR: un nuevo abordaje terapéutico , incluye capítulos teóricos sobre el método bajo la supervisión de los trainers habilitados por el EMDR Institute. Los capítulos van desde la teoría básica del EMDR, pasando por la creatividad hasta llegar a la compleja especulación neurobiológica de su funcionamiento.
El conocimiento del cerebro junto con la inspiración de la Dra. Shapiro que condujo al descubrimiento y desarrollo del EMDR, son los puntales del método y su vínculo con la creatividad. El reprocesamiento con EMDR es también un proceso esencialmente creativo, fundamental para poder levantar el bloqueo resultante del trauma. La relación terapéutica que se instala durante el reprocesamiento de EMDR puede ser conceptualizada como un proceso co-creativo (D. Grand Ph.D.)
La tercera parte incluye casos clínicos, como corresponde a un libro dedicado a una técnica de demostrada eficacia.
This book, the first on EMDR written by a group of Argentine professionals, consists of three parts: the first is "Trauma and associated theory": these chapters explores the history of current theories reaching the redefinition of some diagnostic categories, result of a new way to see the effect of traumatic experiences on individuals. Process involving biological, psychological, family and social aspects.
The second part, "EMDR: a new therapeutic approach", includes theoretical chapters on the method under the supervision of the enabled trainers by the EMDR Institute. Chapters range from basic theory of the EMDR, passing through the creativity to complex operation neurobiological speculation.
Knowledge of the brain along with "the inspiration of the DRA." Shapiro that led to the discovery and development of the EMDR are the underpinnings of the method and its link with the creativity. Reprocessing with EMDR is also a process essentially creative, fundamental to lift the trauma resulting blocking. The therapeutic relationship installed during reprocessing of EMDR can be conceptualized as a co-creative process (D. Grand Ph.d..)
Accuracy Verified: Yes
303. Lovett, J. (2000). The trauma-attachment tangle: Let's help children and parents out of the bind. The Children's Group Therapy Association Newsletter. Retrieved from http://www.cgta.net/newsletters/play_therapy.html November 16, 2011.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
What does help children and adults who have had experiences that ruptured their trust in the world and who have been unable to develop close, reciprocal, loving relationships?
1. Experiences of being safe for an extended period of time.
2. EMDR to desensitize and reprocess upsetting memories.
3. Development of healthy inner parents who nurture, encourage, and offer guidance.
4. Children benefit from nurturing cuddle time with parents and alternating bilateral stimulation to reinforce positive experiences of safety, care, tenderness, and attunement.
5. Adults benefit from imagination exercises to help them experience nurturing.
6. Children and adults need a cohesive life story that is developmentally appropriate and explains and reframes what happened to them and offers trauma resolution and hope for the future.
7. EMDR to target confusion, so that uncertainty (necessary for approaching new experiences and learning) does not trigger anxiety.
8. Grief work, to deal with loss and find ways to be loyal to more than one person or family.
9. Creative opportunities for healing. Art, play therapy, drama, sandtray work can be used to express feelings, as well as provide targets for desensitizing and reprocessing traumatic experiences. Fortunately, children can resolve trauma even when EMDR is used to help the action figure, the baby doll, or the toy horse resolve a challenging situation.
10. Work with parents (or refer them) to understand and desensitize their own triggers for reactivity. Children who are fearful, angry, needy, or sad need mature parents who can stay objective and help them contain their strong emotions.
11. While the work of resolving trauma and developing trust can be slow, EMDR can facilitate the process. The rewards are sweet and well worth the effort. [Excerpt]
Keywords: Adults Attachment Children Trauma Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
304. Diseth, T. H., & Christie, H. J. (2005, September). Trauma-related dissociative (conversion) disorders in children and adolescents An overview of assessment tools and treatment principles. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 59(4), 278-292. doi:10.1080/08039480500213683.
Language: English
Format: Journal
A high proportion of patients in child and adolescent psychiatry with significant dissociative symptomatology after early childhood traumatization may go undiagnosed, be wrongly diagnosed and/or inappropriately treated. The diagnostics and treatment of dissociative disorders have been limited by lack of comprehensive, reliable and valid instruments and the ongoing polarization and fierce controversy regarding treatment. However, recent neurobiological findings of neurochemical, functional and structural cerebral consequences of early stressful childhood experiences point out a need for active, early and effective identification and treatment interventions. We present an update on assessment tools available in the Nordic countries, and an overview of different appropriate therapeutic intervention models for children and adolescents. A systematic overview of studies of dissociation in children and adolescent published over the last decade disclosed a total of 1019 references. The 465 papers describing aspects of assessment tools and/or treatment were studied in detail. Reliable and valid screening questionnaires and diagnostic interviews for children and adolescents now allow for effective early identification of dissociative disorders. A combination of individual psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy and family therapy are often required to handle dissociative disorders in children and adolescents. Cognitive-behavioural therapy, hypnotherapy, Eye-Movement Desensitization-Reprocessing (EMDR), psychodynamic therapy and an integrated approach are the main described psychotherapeutic approaches, but treatment of dissociation in children and adolescent does not require allegiance to any one particular treatment model. However, achievement of physical safety by providing a safe environment is a primary goal that supersedes any other therapeutic work. Assessments tools are now available, and appropriate therapeutic intervention models may hopefully contribute to reduce the risk of wrong diagnoses and inappropriate treatment of dissociative symptomatology in children and adolescents. However, controlled clinical trials of the various interventions and longitudinal outcome studies are needed.
Keywords: Adolescents Children Conversion Disorders Empirical Study Quantitative Study
Accuracy Verified: Yes
305. Figley, C. R. (1996). Traumatic death: Treatment implications. In K. K. Doka (Ed.), Living with grief after sudden loss: Suicide, homicide, accident, heart attack, stroke. (pp. 91-102). Washington, DC, US: Hospice Foundation of America; Taylor & Francis.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
[reminds] grief counselors and traumatologists about the dangers of overspecialization / emphasizes that each approach offers unique strengths that should be synthesized
evolution of modern thanatology / grief counseling / trauma counseling / death and trauma / generic treatment approaches / family treatment approaches [family guidance and therapy model, the Rochester model] / individually-oriented approaches [eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), thought field therapy (TFT), visual/kinesthetic disassociation (V/KD), traumatic incident reduction (TIR)] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Counseling Counselors Death and Dying Emotional Trauma Grief Professional Specialization Treatment
Accuracy Verified: No
306. Figley, C. R. (1999). Traumatology of grieving: Conceptual, theoretical, and treatment foundations. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel.
Language: English
Format: Book
Conceptualizing death and trauma: a preliminary endeavor; Empirical perspectives on contextualizing death and trauma; Factors associated with effective loss accommodation; Intersections of grief and trauma: family members' reactions to homicide; Duty-related deaths and police spouse survivors: group support effects; Emotional dissociation, self-deception, and adaptation to loss; Bereavement after homicide: its assessment and treatment; The treatment of PTSD through grief work and forgiveness; Relieving the naumatic aspects of death with naumatic incident resolution and EMDR; Death-related treatment applications for the elderly; Safety reconnaissance for grieving trauma survivors. [Pilots]
Keywords: Bereavement Effects Survivors Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
307. Wesselmann, D. (2005, September). Treating attachment issues through EMDR and a family systems approach. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Seattle, WA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
EMDR and Family Systems Theory offer different but complimentary approaches to improving quality of attachment relationships. The presentation
will provide a clinical understanding of the similarities between EMDR,
famlly systems, and attachment theory models and an ovewiew of the combined
treatment approach. Participants will learn to identify possible precursors to
attachment problems within the family that may be useful as targets for
EMDR processing, and specific family therapy strategies that will help interrupt
negative feedback loops. Participants will learn to utilize parents in EMDR
treatment and incorporate the narrative method as an adjunct to EMDR.
Keywords: Attachment Theory Family Systems Theory Narrative Method Negative Feedback Loop
Accuracy Verified: Yes
308. Wesselmann, D. (2007). Treating attachment Issues through EMDR and a family systems approach. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp.113-130). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
The difficult behaviors exhibited by children who meet the criteria for a diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) can be challenging to both parents and professionals. Utilizing the point of view of three models--attachment, Adaptive Information Processing, and family systems--can enhance the clinician's understanding of attachment-related symptoms. Although the models hold shared views, each brings an additional piece of the puzzle to case conceptualization and treatment planning. Family systems therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy are different but complementary approaches to improving attachment relationships. Some general treatment strategies combining a family systems approach with an EMDR approach that are helpful in working with families affected by disturbed parent-child attachments are presented here. Case examples and a concluding discussion complete the chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing AIP Attachment Attachment Disorders Cognitive Processes Family Systems Approach Family Systems Theory Family Therapy RAD Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment Strategies
Accuracy Verified: Yes
309. Omaha, J. (1999, June). Treating nicotine dependency: An application of the Chemotion/EMDR protocol. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Assocation, Las Vegas, NV.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will learn: 1) the definition of denial as an unconscious mechanism preventing awareness and acceptance of a relationship between negative consequences of nicotine abuse and the nicotine abuse iself; 2) the origin of denial in a defected ego function of reality testing; 3) how defected reality testing in nicotine dependents means they cannot distinguish what is inside them - their archaic, unresolved trauma-coded affects, memories, cognitions, and images - from what is outside them - the smoking-induced affects, cognitions, and images; 4) how smokers reenact their childhood emotional trauma through their nicotine abuse. Cigarettes facilitate re-experiencing affects directed against the child by traumatizer and also re-experiencing the unmetabolized affect felt by the child during traumatization; 5) the Chemotion/EMDR protocol, a brief, effective treatment for nicotine dependency; 6) how Gestalt commmunication technique in Chemotion/EMDR protocol can evoke the object relations deficits during nicotine dependency; 7) how EMDR can desensitize and reprocess the specific childhood emotional trauma driving the dependency; and 8) how EMDR can install or strengthen the reality testing ego function.
Keywords: Chemotion Denial Gestalt Communication Nicotine Dependency Object Relations Deficits Reality Testing
Accuracy Verified: Yes
310. Lawson, C. A. (2004). Treating the borderline mother: Integrating EMDR with a family systems perspective. In M. M. McFarlane (Ed.), Family treatment of personality disorders: Advances in clinical practice (pp. 305-334). New York: Haworth Clinical Practice Press.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Describes the features borderline personality disorders (BPD) in mothers and the impact it can have the family, then describes the treatment model, which combines Bowen's family systems theory with eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR). Following illustrative case material, the author discusses the treatment model's strengths and limitations, benefits for the family, indications and contraindications, management of transference issues, management of crises and acting-out behavior, integration with psychiatric services and the role of medication, and cultural and gender issues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Borderline Personality Disorder Bowen's Family Systems Theory Family Therapy Mothers Treatment Model
Accuracy Verified: Yes
311. Latenstein, E., & de Roos, C. (2005, June). Treatment of a couple that survived the tsunami with their four children. In "EMDR in action." Part 2. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Brussels, Belgium.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Twelve days after the 26th of December 2004 a couple came to my private
practice, on referral from Prof. Dr. Ad de Jongh. that looked death in the
eye when the Tsunami hit Sri Lanka. The couple has four children, age four to
eleven, who survived with them. On Sri Lanka they were called 'The fortune
family'. They both had severe symptoms of Acute Stress Disorder: reliving the
disaster day and night and were, only just, managing to take care of the
children and their daily life.
They already read about EMDR and had their hopes up that I could help
them stabilize. As soon as they started telling me about their distressing
experience I noticed that, especially the woman, started reliving it. Knowing
that they had been telling everything already many times to family and friends, I asked them f I could immediately do the first EMDR session with each of them. Quite noticeable was that the experience was still in their minds with every detail and with several peaks of the most distressing
moments. In total they had three single sessions each with two-days intervals.
Their children who at first were doing relatively well had started to develop
serious symptoms and needed treatment; after the three EMDR sessions for
each of the parents they were stable and could give their full attention to
EMDR-treatment of their children, who went to Carlijn de Roos MA, clinical
child-psychologist, who leads a trauma centre for children in the
Netherlands. At the end of February the parents were still doing well and at
the time of the EMDR Europe Conference I will have seen them for a follow-up.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
312. Ford, J. D. (2009). Treatment of children and adolescents with traumatic stress disorders. In J. D. Ford's (Ed.) Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Scientific And Professional Dimensions (pp. 223-250). New York: Academia Press.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Excerpt: Practice guidelines for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents
with posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) were first developed by an expert
panel convened more than a decade ago by Cohen and the American Academy
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Work Group on Quality Issues (1998). Since
the release of that seminal set of practice guidelines, substantial additional validation
has been provided in scientific studies of the most robustly evidence-based
treatment model, trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT; Cohen
et al., 2006, 2008). Other approaches to the treatment of children and adolescents
with PTSD have been sufficiently clinically or scientifically tested to be
included as actually or potentially evidence-based (Saxe et al., 2007b; Vickerman
and Margolin, 2007) in the recent second edition of the International Society
for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) Practice Guidelines, Effective Treatments
for PTSD (Foa et al., 2008). These include eye movement desensitization and
reprocessing (EMDR; Spates et al., 2008), school-based cognitive behavior therapies
(Jaycox et al., 2008), psychodynamic therapies (Lieberman et al., 2008),
creative arts therapies (Goodman et al., 2008) and psychopharmacotherapy (treatment
with therapeutic medications; Donnelly, 2008). Family systems therapies
were included in the ISTSS Practice Guidelines only for adults, but promising
approaches for family therapy with children with PTSD have been developed (Ford
and Saltzman, 2009).
Chapter Outline
Evidence-Based and Empirically-Informed Psychotherapy Models for Children with PTSD
Trauma focused-cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR; Spates et al., 2008)
Cognitive behavior therapy in schools (Jaycox et al., 2008)
Psychodynamic therapies (Lieberman et al., 2008)
Creative arts therapies (Goodman et al., 2008)
Family systems therapies (Ford and Saltzman, 2009)
Affective and interpersonal regulation therapies (Ford and Cloitre, 2009)
Psychopharmacotherapy (Connor and Fraleigh, 2008; Donnelly, 2008)
Integrative psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy models
Real World Challenges in Treating Children with PTSD
Keywords: Adolescents Children Traumatic Stress Disorders
Accuracy Verified: No
313. Klaff, F. R. (1995, June). Treatment of children's fears with EMDR. Presentation at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Through case material, the usefullness of EMDR is illustrated for the treatment of children's fears and phobias. The issue of
integrating EMDR treatment with more traditional treatment is also addressed, especially with more complex contextual problems.
Three case histories are presented with emphasis on the most complicated case. Family therapy treatment espouses the notion that
psychopathology in the child results from dysfunctional family functioning, and as such the entire family system has to be treated.
This concept is broadened with the use of EMDR.
The first case illustrates a single trauma event in which a 6 year old boy was bitten by a rottweiler. Presenting symptoms were
nightmares, fear of sleeping alone, poor school performance, persistent thoughts and fear of dogs. The first session of EMDR was
successful in eliminating most of these fears. A second EMDR session focusing on a nightmare was also successful. Two follow
up sessions with the family dealt with other parenting issues and the possibility of attention deficit disorder. The targeted problem
was eliminated via EMDR.
The second case demonstrates a successful one session treatment of an otherwise healthy 6 year old girl who had fears of the dark
and had slept in her parent's bed for years.
In the third case, a complex symptomatology is presented of a nine year old girl (Lily) with a severe, life threatening heart condition
for which she has undergone 4 delicate aortal surgeries since age 2 and is on a medication maintenance regimen. Future surgery is
anticipated during adolescence. Family history is significant for mother's struggle to overcome alcohol addiction, depression and
past abuse. The family has financial pressures. Family system analysis reveals over involvement between mother and daughter,
peripheral father and sibling rivalry (daughter 11). Family treatment involved boundary and limit setting, hierarchical restructuring
and family communication skills. The illness as an organizing factor in the family system was repeatedly addressed.
Interspersed with this treatment approach were EMDR sessions for daughters and mother. Lily had fears of separation fiom mother,
fears of dying, choking, becoming ill, swimming, going to bed, and fears of the devil (as learned in their fundamentalist religion) as
well as several other fears. EMDR sessions targeted these fears, and sometimes several fears were intertwined, such as fear of
sleeping, the devil coming into her room and taking her away to die. Cognitive interweave was used when she appeared stuck.
Through the EMDR treatments, Lily was able to deeply examine her fears, based on the real life uncertainties she faced. Her
progress demonstrated a particularly poignant attempt to make sense of the meaning of life and cope with the threat of death.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
314. Hodes, M., & Diaz-Caneja, A. (2007). Treatment options for young people and refugees with post-traumatic stress disorder II. In A. A. Hosin (Ed.), Responses to traumatized children, (pp. 40-65). Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
This chapter focuses on the effective treatments for PTSD which are used with young people, particularly young refugees. Comprehensive accounts of treatments and treatment efficacy for PTSD in young people have been provided elsewhere. The aims of this chapter are therefore twofold: first to describe the more established treatments for young people with PTSD, and second to look at all innovative treatment approaches that have been developed for young refugees. The chapter has an evidence-based perspective, and so provides data regarding the efficacy of the treatments described.In order to achieve these aims, it was felt necessary to describe the background to evidence-based practice. This will be followed by a summary of children's and adolescents' reactions to traumatic events, and salient developmental factors. The description of treatments begins then with the therapies for which there is currently most evidence, e.g. cognitive behavioural and related treatments, including group CBT and exposure therapy. Two other individual treatments -- EMDR and psychopharmacology -- will also be described in this chapter. There is then consideration of some innovative therapies that have been used for young refugees with PTSD, such as testimony therapy and narrative exposure therapy. Non-directive therapies such as art therapy are highlighted and discussed alongside the role of the family and its potential for involvement in treatment and any proposed management plan. Finally, attention is given to some contextual factors that will influence choice of treatments. [Text, p. 40][Pilots]
Keywords: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Refugees Treatment Young People
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315. Cohena, J. A., Mannarino, A. P., & Rogal, S. (2001, January). Treatment practices for childhood posttraumatic stress disorder. Child Abuse and Neglect, 25(1), 123-135. doi:10.1016/S0145-2134(00)00226-X.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Objective: This study surveyed practices in treating childhood PTSD among child psychiatrists and non-M.D. therapists with self-identified interest in treating traumatized children. Method: An anonymous survey was mailed to 207 child psychiatrists ("medical") [members of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry] and 460 nonphysician ("non-medical") therapists [members of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies] inquiring about current interventions used to treat children with PTSD. Results: 247 responses were received: of 77 medical and 82 nonmedical respondents who currently treat children with PTSD, a wide variety of modalities are used. Most preferred modalities among medical responders were pharmacotherapy, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Most preferred modalities among nonmedical respondents were cognitive-behavioral, family, and nondirective play therapy. 95% of medical respondents used pharmacotherapy for this disorder; most preferred medications to treat childhood PTSD were selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and alpha-adrenergic agonists. Several significant differences between medical and nonmedical practices were identified. Conclusions: There is little clinical consensus regarding the effectiveness of the many modalities used to treat traumatized children who have PTSD symptoms; empirical research is particularly needed to evaluate the efficacy of pharmacotherapy and EMDR. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Adolescents Arousal Avoidance Children Drug Therapy Mental Health Personnel Reexperiencing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Treatment Effectiveness
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316. Zillhart, P. (2007, Juin). Troubles du comportement alimentaire et EMDR [EMDR and eating behavioral disorders]. Présentation à la réunion annuelle de l'Association EMDR Europe, Paris, France.
Language: French
Format: Conference
Défaut dintériorsation des objets dans la théorie des relations objectales ou véritable pathologie de la consommation et du changement au carrefour des domains environnementaux et socio-culturels, les TCA constituent un probleme de santé sociale. Leur nature addictive est discutée.
Le problematique des TCA est rendue plus complexe par lexistence dune lourde comorbidité dont les éléments pathologiques sont autant causes que conséquences. Notons que 40% des patients souffrant de TCA ont eu, à un moment de leur vie, un psychotraumatisme.
La thérapie EMDR permet une approche intégrative dans le traitement des TCA: un aspect cognitif indéniable, le processus associatif unduit par les stimulations alternées met souvent en lumuiere des matériaux reflétant des conflits intrapsychiques plus ou moins archaiques.
Le travail portant sur limagerie mentale ou les états dissociés du moi peut aussi etre associé dans les cas difficiles de patients souffrant de TCA Le présent atelier a pour but :
- Déclairir les points clef des classifications nosographiques actuelles, notamment dans leur incidence thérapeutique, sans oublier les cas lurgences.
- De présenter les aspects les plus récents du modèle bio-psychosocial des TCA, véritable clef de voute des interventions thérapeutiques, notommanent concernant la therapie EMDR. La therapie EMDR se veut indvidualisée selon lhistoire de vie de chaque patient.
La connaissance profounde de lhistoire de vie des patients avec leurs thématiques existentielles permet la construction de "clusters" multiples. Ceux-ci offrent un mode dinduction privilégié des processus associatifs de restructuration cognitive, émotionnelle, et corporelle proper à la thérapie EMDR.
- Des protocoles sont proposés selon cas et illustrés par quelques exemples et vignettes cliniques.
- De répondre à un maximum de questions durant latelier.
Failure intériorsation objects in the theory of object relations or true pathology of consumption and change at the junction of domains environmental and socio-cultural, the CAW is a social health problem. Their addictive nature is discussed.
The problematic CAW is complicated by the existence of a significant comorbidity with pathological elements are all causes than consequences. Note that 40% of patients with ABI had, at some point in their life, a psychological trauma.
EMDR allows an integrative approach in the treatment of TCA, a cognitive undeniable, the associative process unduit by alternating stimulation is often lumuiere materials reflecting intrapsychic conflicts more or less archaic.
The work on mental imagery or dissociated ego states may also be involved in difficult cases of patients with ABI This workshop aims to:
- To explain the key points nosographic current classifications, particularly in their therapeutic effect, without forgetting the emergency cases.
- Present the most recent aspects of the biopsychosocial model CAW real keystone of therapeutic interventions notommanent on EMDR therapy. The EMDR therapy is meant indvidualisée by life history of each patient.
Profound knowledge of the history of life of patients with their existential issues allows the construction of clusters multiple. They offer a privileged mode of induction of associative processes of cognitive restructuring, emotional, and physical Proper to EMDR.
- Protocols are proposed under event and illustrated by some examples and clinical vignettes.
- To answer many questions as possible during the workshop.
Keywords: Eating Disorders
Accuracy Verified: Yes
317. Litt, B. K. (2000, September). Trust, intimacy, and sex: An integrated approach. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Participants will be able to: 1) identify four dimensions of the relational context; 2) understand inhibited sexual desire using the model; 3) formulate assessments and treatment plans using the four dimensional framework; 4) choose relations, systemic or psychological interventions, including EMDR, using the model presented, and 5) elicit salient EMDR targets for maximum therapeutic benefit.
Keywords: Dimensions of Relational Context Inhibted Sexual Desire Sex Intimacy Targets Trust
Accuracy Verified: Yes
318. Shapiro, F. (2010, July). Update of EMDR research, theory, and practice. Keynote presented at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
In its twenty-year history, EMDR has evolved into a distinct form of psychotherapy with a wide range of
clinical applications. Guided by the Adaptive Information Processing model clinicians are able to directly
impact the implicit and associational memory networks that govern feelings, thoughts, and reactions
outside the realm of rational thought.
Increasingly, research evidence is showing that EMDR can rapidly produce change simultaneously on cognitive, emotional,
and somatic levels. This presentation will explore research and case reports that address a full range of issues of everyday
clinical practice, including family therapy impasses, attachment disorders, chronic pain, sexual compulsivity, and other
dysfunctional behaviors and thoughts.
Keywords: Keynote Practice Research Theory Update
Accuracy Verified: Yes
319. Popky, A. J. (2011, October). An urge reduction protocol as a new way to address addictions and dysfunctional behaviors based on the AIP model of EMDR. Presentation for Care For the Troops, Marietta, Ohio.
Language: English
Format: Other
The purpose of this document is to act as a training manual for those clinicians that work with addictive populations and that have completed already completed EMDR level 1 and 2 trainings. Previous research on EMDR has focused on its usefulness for treating trauma-related symptoms in a diverse sample of subjects. This protocol deals with targeting triggers that bring up urges rather than traumas. It is the authors beliefs that the targeting of triggers is a gentler way of dealing with this addictive population and that as triggers are reprocessed ego strength grows until the thread to the trauma or core issues are ready to emerge to be reprocessed.
This treatment model and the theories involved are based on experience from personal client observation and anecdotal reports received from other therapists using this same protocol. It is an eclectic model and combines many methodologies, including but not limited to, cognitive-behavioral, solution focused, Ericksonian, narrative, object relations, EFT, TFT, to name a few. The bi-lateral stimulation from the accelerated information processing model (EMDR) seems to form the catalyst for rapid processing and change, the turbo-charger that speeds the healing process.
Successful results have been reported across the wide spectrum of addictions and dysfunctional behaviors: chemical substances (nicotine, marijuana, alcohol, methamphetamine, cocaine, crack, heroin/methadone, etc.), eating disorders such as compulsive overeating, anorexia and bulimia, along with other behaviors such as sex, gambling, shoplifting, anger outbursts, OCD and trichotillomania, etc. Since this is an urge reduction protocol the scope of applications can include a wide variety of applications.
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Addictions AIP Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing DeTUR Dysfunctional Behaviors
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320. Bermudez, J. S. (2002, January). The use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) within a multi-modal treatment program for child victims of extrafamilial sexual abuse. Carlos Albizu University, Miami, FL. AAT 3057608.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
Sexual abuse has created multiple short and long term problems for many individuals in society today. It often occurs in childhood and the scars that are left can be permanent. Statistically, it occurs with far greater frequency than should be tolerated. However, it is frequently unreported and can be difficult to detect in a child that experiences this form of trauma. There is a significant need to help these children that have been victims of this crime. Extrafamilial sexual abuse in particular appears to occur with greater frequency than intrafamilial sexual abuse. Studies show that it has lasting effects on children. Two of the most common and consistent symptoms seen with these children are PTSD and sexualized behavior. Other symptoms that have been found with these children include: depression, anxiety, fear, and difficulty managing anger.Although there have been many program designs implemented for child sexual abuse victims, most do not properly assess the level of improvement through objective measures that show that the treatment was responsible for the observed change and not some other variable. Many different forms of treatment have been used to treat sexual abuse victims, such as different forms of traditional individual therapies, family therapy, group therapy, drama therapy, and art therapy. One innovative psychotherapeutic technique that has been used recently with these types of clients and those who have experienced other types of traumatic events is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is a relatively new form of treatment developed in 1987 by Francine Shapiro. There have been controlled research studies that have shown the efficacy of this technique. Although there are some researchers who are skeptical of the use of this technique and challenge its effectiveness, studies have nonetheless shown that it is an effective form of brief therapy with long-term effects. This proposed treatment program would be developed for children, aged 6-12 years, who have been victims of extrafamilial sexual abuse. It is designed to be short term, lasting 4 months, and EMDR will be utilized as the primary psychotherapeutic tool to assist the children in reprocessing their traumatic experience. Mental health services that would be provided include individual therapy consisting primarily of EMDR, group therapy for the child and the parents or caretakers provided separately, and family therapy that would include the parents, child, and siblings if deemed necessary. The children admitted to the program would meet criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD. They would also be given psychological measures in order to establish a baseline in terms of current symptoms such as depression and anxiety. The same measures would be administered again at the completion of treatment allowing for the measurement of any improvements. It is expected that children who complete the program would show a significant reduction or elimination of PTSD symptoms. This can be done more effectively by treating the family as a unit in dealing with such a traumatic experience. It is believed that this form of treatment would provide a valuable service to the community and further our understanding regarding the efficacy of EMDR. [Author Abstract]
Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering. 63(6-B), Jan 2002, pp. 3000.
Keywords: Brief Psychotherapy Child Abuse Empirical Study Family Therapy Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Rape School Age Children Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
321. Chemali, Z., & Meadows, M-E. (2004, October). The use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of psychogenic seizures. Epilepsy & Behavior, 5(5), 784-787. doi:10.1002/cpp.525.
Language: English
Format: Journal
We present a case illustrating the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of psychogenic seizures. These seizures were events lasting many hours, necessitating frequent emergency room visits and an extensive medical work up. Given the patient's history, PTSD was diagnosed. EMDR is widely used as a treatment modality for PTSD, and the patient was referred for once-per-week treatment, with complete recovery after 18 months of therapy. The impact of her recovery on her quality of life was astonishing. This case supports the notion that EMDR can be an effective alternative treatment for psychogenic seizures, especially when the history reveals a traumatic event or abusive experiences. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Adults Australians Clinical Case Study Cognitive Therapy Empirical Study Females Family Therapy Males Psychotherapeutic Processes Self Report Instruments Spouses Treatment Effectiveness Vietnam War
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322. Parnell, L. (1995, June). The use of imaginal and cognitive interweaves with sexual abuse survivors. Presentation at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This hour and a half presentation addresses the use of cognitive and imaginal interweaves in the treatment of adult survivors of
sexual abuse. The overall course of treatment with EMDR is briefly outlined including a variety of interweave interventions for use
in the beginning, middle and end of EMDR sessions.
In working with sexual abuse survivors with EMDR it is important to understand the issues commonly encountered in their
treatment. These include issues of safety, trust, responsibility, choice/control, interpersonal relationships, body awareness and
image, sexuality and self esteem. A sexual abuse assessment can be taken which includes information on the perpetrator(s), severity
and frequency of abuse, type of abuse, age of onset of abuse, duration of abuse, disclosure and family response.
Sexual abuse survivors present themselves in treatment in different ways. Some clients come to treatment remembering abuse and
want to clear it with EMDR. Other clients come to treatment with no clear memories of incidents but have a "feeling" something
happened to them and have symptoms of abuse. There are clients who have no clear memories but something has triggered
flashbacks and nightmares of sexual abuse. Finally, there are clients who have no memory of abuse and come to therapy for another
reason but uncover what they believe to be sexual abuse memories with EMDR.
There are three phases of treatment in sexual abuse cases. In the beginning phase, a history is taken and there is the establishment
of a trusting relationship. The client is prepared for EMDR. In the middle phase, there is the reprocessing and working through of
traumatic memories and transference work. In the end phase of treatment there is integration of the information which has been
uncovered and preparation for life outside of therapy.
Interweaves can be utilized in the beginning, middle and end of EMDR sessions.
In the beginning of individual EMDR sessions there is a check-in with clients to see how they have been doing during the week.
What has come up for them in their dreams or daily life since the last session? Next there is the selection and development of targets
for EMDR (body sensation, memory, flashback, symptom, dream, feeling, vague sense, negative cognition or drawing).
A safe place is then established where the client can go at the beginning, middle or end of the session as needed. Along with the
safe place an inner advisor or other inner resources can be contacted and developed for use in sessions. A connection with the
client's inner child is important which can be done through the use of guided imagery, photographs and/or artwork.
Instructions on how EMDR will be used are given with attention paid to issues of safety and control (they are in control, they can
stop at any time, they can return to the safe place, they know the signal for stop). Negative and positive cognitions are established
along with the EMDR protocol.
In the middle of individual EMDR sessions there are commonly problems with looping or being "stuck." This seems to occur
frequently with sexual abuse survivors because of the intensity of the trauma and because the child self is often frozen in time
lacking access to the adult self's information. Ways to work with this include looking for the blocking beliefs (i.e., The perpetrator
can hurt me), look for blocking images, and talking to the child part (what does he/she need?).
Imaginal and cognitive interweaves can be used in a variety of different ways in the middle of EMDR sessions. Some of these
include: imagining the adult self helping the child self in the traumatic scene, bringing in inner and outer resources for help (i.e., a
powdl imaginary being, a strong loving fiend, the therapist, etc.), and reality check interweave where is the perpetrator now?, can
helshe hurt you now?) It is also important to educate the child part that his or her feelings are normal, sexual feelings are normal etc.
It can be helpful to ask the adult self to talk to the child self explaining things to the child. Another useful interweave is to have the
adult self hold the perpetrator and allow the child to beat him or her up or have the adult self beat up the perpetrator allowing anger
to be expressed safely. Asking clients if they would like to return to the safe place for a break can also be helpful if they are feeling
too overwhelmed.
There are a number of ways to end or close incomplete EMDR sessions. Often it will not be possible to completely clear a traumatic
memory in a session or the memory worked on is completed but connected to a whole network of other traumatic events. For these
cases there are a number of interweaves that can be used. Clients can be requested to have the adult self comfort the child self in the .
safe place. The client can imagine putting the scary unfinished disturbance that has been uncovered in a file folder, box, safe, leave
it in the therapist's office, etc. The client can return to the safe place where the child and adult selves can play together. The adult
can comfort the child or do whatever is needed to create safety and containment. Clients can imagine their child self being held by
protector figures repeating cognitions related to safety, responsibility and choice. They can also be asked what they learned from the
session, installing their response with eye movements.
It is helpful to give homework to clients such as journaling, artwork, walks in nature, meditation, stress reduction, group work,
exercise, nutritious diet, and restriction of drugs and alcohol. Loving Kindness or Metta Meditation is another very helpful tool for
teaching self soothihg to adult survivors of sexual abuse.
Keywords: Cognitive Interweave Imaginal Interweave Sexual Abuse Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
323. Fisher, M. E. (2008). The use of psychoeducation in the treatment of PTSD with military personnel and their family members: An exploratory study from a clinicians perspective. Social Work Research Methods, Smith College, School for Social Work.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
This qualitative study explores clinicians use of psychoeducation in the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with military personnel and their family members. Seven clinicians working with military personnel or in a military setting were asked a series of questions about psychoeducation and its use in the treatment of PTSD. Utilizing interviews, clinicians provided rich and detailed narratives outlining the following questions: (1) Is psychoeducation an appropriate intervention method in the treatment of PTSD? If so, when is it appropriate to use or incorporate psychoeducation in the treatment process with military personnel and/or their family members? and (2) What have been the outcomes in using psychoeducation as a form of treatment for PTSD with individual military personnel and/or their family members? How do you measure the effectiveness of this intervention?
Participants gave descriptive narratives of their experience and outcomes, exploring their meaning and understanding of psychoeducation, its use during the therapeutic relationship as a stand-alone entity or in conjunction with another therapy, and their perceptions on psychoeducations effectiveness in the treatment of PTSD. Major findings revealed that psychoeducation was used by all of the participants in this study; however treatment modality, timeframe and settings of use with psychoeducation varied. The data collected from the study supported the need for more research to be
conducted on the effectiveness and best practices of the use of psychoeducation in the treatment of PTSD.
Keywords: Military Psycheducation
Accuracy Verified: Yes
324. Shellenberger, S. (2007). Use of the genogram with families for assessment and treatment. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 76-94). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
In this chapter, the use of the genogram is highlighted as a tool for couple or family assessment, to determine therapeutic options, and to intervene. Typical symbols used and questions asked for the purpose of building the genogram are described. Several cases are presented, the first of which illustrates the intertwining of assessment and intervention in couple's therapy. The second case presents the challenge of interviewing and drawing a genogram of a family where there are multiple partners, children by different partners, and complex relationship dynamics. The third case shows both the biological and adoptive families of one adult. In the portrayal of the cases, points of referral for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy are noted. Adaptations of the traditional genogram, including socially constructed genograms, projective genograms, and community genograms, are discussed along with limitations of the genogram technique. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Couple Assessment Family Family Assessment Family Systems Theory Family Therapy Genogram Psychotherapeutic Techniques Therapeutic Options
Accuracy Verified: Yes
325. Keller, M. (2010, July). Using EMDR at each stage of the trauma recovery process. Presentation at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Using EMDR at Each Stage of the Trauma Recovery Process
1) Introduction and overview of general principles of traumatology.
2) The stages of trauma recovery:
a) Safety,
b) Self-regulation capacity,
c) Social connection,
d) Reprocessing traumatic memories,
e) Rebuilding a life worth living.
3) Safety:
a) Calm/safe place-indications and contraindications,
b) EMD,
c) RTEP,
d) Coping with current lack of safety.
4) Self-Regulation:
a) EMDR self-regulation interventions with the whole brain in mind.
5) Social connection:
a) Interventions based on client attachment style,
b) Enhancing memories of positive relationships,
c) Building layers of connectionintimacy, family, community, religious,
6) Reprocessing traumatic memories:
a) Considerations for selecting appropriate memory targets,
b) A continuum of reprocessing approaches-EMD through EMDR,
c) Recent event and more distant past event issues,
d) Cultural considerations.
7) Rebuilding a life worth living:
a) The positive future template,
8) Conclusion.
The presentation will include video examples of interventions at each stage of the trauma recovery process. Audience
questions and interactions will be encouraged.
Keywords: Trauma Recovery Process
Accuracy Verified: Yes
326. Foster, S. (2004, September). Using EMDR for performance enhancement in career and creative performing arts. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Montréal, Ontario Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
In her thirteen years of work with EMDR and peak performance, Dr. Sandra "Sam" Foster has found that EMDR can be a powerful tool for helping higher functioning people achieve their goals in career and in the performing and creative arts. This advanced EMDR specialty training teaches you how to use the EMDR Peak Performance Protocol to help clients break rhrough obstacles of performance anxiety, perfectionism, fear of failure, and concerns about sustaining success. This protocol is also useful for clients who have made good progress in their therapy and now
wish to make their future template real -- going to work, beginning a relationship, or starting a family. Come learn how to develop an area of
private practice with healthy clients who want to overcome past setbacks and disappointments to become all they wish to be. Experience for yourself how to create resources for possibility and self-actualization.
Keywords: Peak Performance Protocol
Accuracy Verified: Yes
327. Shapiro, R. (2005). Using EMDR in couples therapy. In R. Shapiro (Ed.), EMDR solutions: Pathways to healing (pp. 283-292). New York: W W Norton & Co.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Why would you do EMDR, a decidedly individual therapy, with couples? How do you decide with whom to use EMDR? And is there anything besides trauma processing that EMDR brings to conjoint couples therapy?In 8 out of 10 couples sessions, I use the Standard Protocol to clear trauma from inside and outside the relationship and from before and after the couple met. The partners envision and practice new behaviors with the Future Template. Dual Attention Stimulus (DAS) can enhance self-soothing. Additionally, when a partner sees the other partner do EMDR or is seen doing EMDR, differentiation is enhanced in each. [Text, p. 283] [Pilots]
Keywords: Adults Family Therapy Marital Problems Sex Therapy Stressors Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
328. Donovan, L. (2005, September). Using EMDR in processing grief with children and families. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Seattle, WA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Grief wears different faces and proceeds in varying paces for the different members
of a family that share a loss. Participants will be able to: 1 ) define relevant issues
and strategies for using EMDR with grieving children and their families; 2)
identify targets and necessary resources for different stages of grief and ages and
roles of family members; and 3) name criteria to guide the structure, sequence
and pacing of EMDR for processing grief within the family system. Theory-based ideas will be storied in case illustrations. Participants will be asked to actively apply each learning objective to a case of their own throughout the workshop.
Keywords: Children Families Grief
Accuracy Verified: Yes
329. O'Malley, A. (2007, June). Using EMDR in unresolved neonatal trauma in a 13 year old and in a 7 year old whose father killed their mother. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract: I am presenting the case of a 13-year-old boy who was referred because of uncontrolled rage evident in his relationship with peers in one incident he had a fellow pupils head under water until he was gasping for air.. He had shown little remorse towards the boy and described the incident as funny. The family had experienced a series of traumatic events. They were forced to evacuate their home when criminal gangs attempted to burn them out; his was to use the house for drug-related activity. Gang members had assaulted my patient and his mother in the street after going to the police. After meeting with the parents and brother and older sister, I had identified that on top of this recent trauma L had extreme hostility towards his mother who he described as that woman. My initial EMDR sessions were with L and his father. During processing of the trauma, my video will show bizarre movement including rolling his head back, hypotonic posture and behavior similar to an infant. This can be understood in relation to Ls early development. He was born at 33 weeks gestation and spends his first 6 weeks in a special care baby unit (CBU) in an incubator. My presentation will discuss the neurological consequences of early trauma and how a narrative approach using EMDR can help in recovery. This approach is based on the work of Dr. Joan Lovett. She is a California-based pediatrician who has developed a protocol for working with children who have experienced significant trauma following premature birth.
My second case is J, a 7-year-old boy who witnessed his father murder his mother approx 1 year ago. He was then held hostage by his father for 6 hours with the body of his mother lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen while the police negotiated with Js father for his release. My first involvement with J was an in depth assessment of his emotional attachment and placement needs for the court. During this process, he developed frequent infantile rages and I advised the system of care around J on their management. At one stage, he had recurrent dreams about joining his mother in heaven and he was discovered attempting to strangle himself. I will discuss how I used the safe place protocol to alleviate his distress. I am now using EMDR directly with J. I use a variety of bilateral alternating stimuli. These include drumming, musical symbols, and a xylophone. I am able to get J to draw sequentially with each new drawing generated by J performing the Butterfly hug. I was inspired to use this technique after I attended a wonderful workshop facilitated by Michel Silvestre entitled integrating family therapy and EMDR. I hope to discuss in this presentation how EMDR can be combined with other therapeutic approached in a case of extreme trauma experienced by a 6-year-old boy who is now effectively orphaned as his father is in prison probably for the rest of his natural life. I will also allude to some of the techniques discussed by Dr. Atle Dyregrov at the 5th annual UK and Ireland conference in London in March last year. He presented in depth therapeutic work with a girl who suffered the trauma of her mothers suicide. I will discuss some of the challenges presented by traumatic grief and how the EMDR protocol can be adapted for use in children.
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
330. Thompson, P. (1995, June). Using EMDR with adolescents: Life changes for adlescents - an empowerment tool. Presentation at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This presentation describes an EMDR protocol for working with an adolescent in such a way as to enhance their self-empowerment
capabilities. As a preliminary, a medical and developmental history of the adolescent is taken from the parents, as well as obtaining
their view of present problems. Using this infomation and a subsequent history obtained from the adolescent provides the basis for
what may prove to be targets later.
I will talk about how, in early discussions with adolescents, when my aim is to gain rapport, I often go back over some of the
information their parents provided so as to obtain the teenager's views and feelings, idenfying the highs and lows in their view of
their life so far. I look for where they have felt successful and powerful, and where they have suffered trauma, loss and sadness with
reference to themselves as individuals and also in their family relationships. I seek to refine targets from both parental and
adolescent information. I also seek to understand what the teen would like in their life and begin to introduce the idea that they can
give direction to their life.
I believe it is important to provide the adolescent with new or clarified information about him or her. I use psychological tests to
assist in this process. I will cover briefly ways that I use the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC), as well as other
assessment instruments such as the Strong Interest Inventory, Rorschach and Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (MAPI), to
give both the adolescent and me important information. Because the information stems from a comparison with the general
population, I can present it more objectively than if it were solely my assessment of them. The adolescent decides what fits them
and what doesn't. This process allows us jointly to identify problems and to look for ways to handle them. Emphasis is always
placed on the adolescent having the power - the information about themselves is power. What they choose to do with it breeds
power. They are in control. This process usually leads to a further explanation of EMDR and how they might choose to work with
me using EMDR.
In summary, I will cover :
Helping the adolescent look at choices as giving freedom Presenting EMDR as a way of having more choices; Looking at behavior problems as habits that can be changed if desired. Encouraging the use of imagination, imaging, finding a
safe place and helping make changes; Taking the position of being their coach for their effort to develop the kind of life they want.
Looking at what they think stands in their way and what they can do to change it.
Identifying negative cognition from these blocks.
Using EMDR in the context of what they want.
Building Self Esteem through goal attainment-EMDR as a tool for performance.
Coaching for positive change and clear thinking.
Teaching self direction and organization reinforcing with EMDR.
Teaching self coaching.
Keywords: Adolescents Self Coaching
Accuracy Verified: Yes
331. Justus, W. (2004). Using EMDR with recovering addicts: An interview with Wendy Justus. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 4(2), 85-93. doi:10.1300/J160v04n02_07.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Presents an interview with Wendy Justus on the efficacy of using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with recovering addicts. People who survive trauma often carry around a great deal of shame, usually based on a flawed belief that they could or should have prevented something terrible from happening. Addicts are usually riddled with shame, and Justus believes that this shame directly prolongs the life of their addiction and makes recovery seem impossible. So helping to lessen shame is her primary goal when working with addicts. She believes that EMDR, focused on either "large T" trauma, such as sexual abuse, or "small t" trauma, such as the fear induced by growing up in a dysfunctional family, can alleviate the shame attached to those traumas and therefore relieve the addict's need for a substance to quiet the shame. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Dysfunctional Family Drug Addiction Emotional Trauma Interviews Recovering Addicts Substance Abusers
Accuracy Verified: Yes
332. Demick, I. (2007, Juin). Utilisation du dispositif tac/audioscan (neurotek) dans la traitement des migraines [Use of the tac/audioscan machine (neurotek) in treatment of migraines]. Document présenté à la réunion annuelle de l'Association EMDR Europe, Paris, France.
Language: French
Format: Conference
Ce qui suit est une procédure expérimentale proposée comme traitement préliminaire pour les patients souffrant de migraines chroniques qui nécessitent de repos total, le retrait de tous active sociale et professionnelle et qui doivent être traités par des médicaments. Cette procédure utilise l'EMDR, l'hypnose et la relaxation et est destiné aux patients souffrant de douleur chronique (symptômes connus et traités depuis cinq à 10 ans).
Les trois composantes de la migraine sont les suivants: MENTALE - expressions de l'impuissance, la solitude, le rejet, l'épuisement physique et psychique, perte de contrôle; émotionnel - la dépression, la colère, la peur, et physique - les sensations physiques, dans des séquences fluctuant évalué entre 6 et 10 sur le échelle de la douleur.
La durée moyenne de ce traitement est de 4 mois pour 6 consultations.
L'objectif du traitement est de rétablir la confiance du patient par l'amélioration physique et bien-être psychologique.
Le principe cliniques: Le patient
douloureux chronique alterne entre le désespoir, la peur de ne jamais trouver un remède (un état mental qui peut être provoquée par l'entourage familial et médical), de la colère contre une histoire personnelle qui peut être amené le syndrome douloureux ( maltraitance parentale ou de l'absence, accident, intervention chirurgicale), l'épuisement physique et l'espoir qu'il ya encore la possibilité d'une guérison. Il est donc important de transmettre un message d'espoir et de la vision d'un traitement qui implique les patients avec son physique, émotionnelle, les ressources psychiques. Explication de la souffrance comme une accumulation de facteurs de stress et le cerveau comme ayant la possibilité de solution, il est proposé au patient de se concentrer sur cette partie du corps qui «parle» dans le phénomène de la douleur. Le patient entend »ou« sent »le mouvement alternatif du Tac / machine Audioscan (Neurotek) tout en étant assuré de la physique et bien-être psychique au cours du traitement.
Le principe neuropsychologiques:
Le patient se concentrer sur la "douloureuse" zone associés sensorielle, psychique souvenirs conscients et inconscients; ces souvenirs traités progressivement par le mouvement de la Tac / machine Audioscan qui fonctionne comme un balayage interne pour éliminer les tensions et à intégrer mental, émotionnel, physique et informations par les chaînes successives.
The following is an experimental procedure proposed as preliminary treatment for patients suffering from chronic migraines which require total rest, withdrawal from all social and professional activates and which must be treated by medication. This procedure used the EMDR, hypnosis and relaxation and is intended for patients suffering from chronic pain (symptoms known and treated since five to 10 years).
The three components of the migraines are: MENTAL expressions of impotence, loneliness, rejection, physical and psychic exhaustion, loss of control; EMOTIONAL depression, anger, fear; and PHYSICAL physical feelings in fluctuating sequences evaluated between 6 and 10 on the pain scale.
The average duration for this treatment is 4 months for 6 consultations.
The objective of the treatment is to restore the patients confidence by improving physical and psychological well-being.
The clinical principle:
The chronic painful patient alternates between despair, fear of never finding a cure (a mental state which may be provoked by the family and medical entourage), anger against a personal history which may have cause the painful syndrome (parental maltreatment or absence, accident, surgical operation), physical exhaustion and hope that there is still the possibility for a cure. It is therefore important to transmit a message of hope and the vision of a treatment which involves the patients with his physical, emotional, psychic resources. Explaining the suffering as an accumulation of stressful factors and the brain as having the possibility of solution, it is proposed to the patient to concentrate on that part of the body which 'speaks in the phenomenon of pain. The patient hears or feels the alternative movement of the Tac/Audioscan machine (Neurotek) while being assured of the physical and psychic well-being during the treatment.
The neuropsychological principle:
The patients concentration on the painful zone associates sensory, psychic conscious and unconscious memories; these memories treated progressively by the movement of the Tac/Audioscan machine which operates like an internal sweeping to eliminate tensions and to integrate mental, emotional, and physical information by successive channels.
Keywords: Medical Illness Migraines
Accuracy Verified: Yes
333. Forgash, C. A. (1997, Spring). Utilizing EMDR consultation in a concurrent treatment model. The Clinician, 28(2), 1-2.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Concurrent psychotherapy is valuable by providing timely interventions to patients with specialized needs. Clinicians refer patients for psychiatric consultations group work and to therapists who specialize in problem areas such as panic disorder, trauma, child abuse issues and substance abuse. Such traumas as child sexual abuse, family violence and disasters result in a large population suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other Dissociative Disorders. Other patients have long-standing depressions, panic and psychosomatic disorders, performance anxiety and phobias stemming from traumas which do not resolve in traditional psychotherapy.
Keywords: Concurrent Treatment Model Consultation
Accuracy Verified: Yes
334. Schwartz, M. F., Galperin, L. D., Schwartz, R. C., & Brown, D. (2003, November). Utilizing internal family systems therapy for dissociative reenactment. Presentation at the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Fall Conference, Chicago, IL.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Dissociative Reenactment Family Systems Therapy
Accuracy Verified: Yes
335. Seponski, D. M., Bermudez, J. M., & Lewis, D. C. (2010, July). Utilizing responsive evaluation to explore EMDR as a culturally responsive model of therapy across Asia. Poster presented at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Traditional therapy models often reflect Western values and norms and may be inappropriate for use with many non-Western
cultures. Worldwide, therapists are beginning to examine how they can make these models culturally sensitive to minorities,
immigrants, and non-Western clients; however, it is time to go beyond being aware, understanding and appreciating
differences, and adapting individual interventions to actively responding to the needs of their clients by using models that
have theoretical underpinnings, underlying assumptions, and basic tenets that are consistent with those of non-Western
clients (Carlson, 1999) and promote social justice for those clients, their families, and the surrounding communities. This
paper suggests the use of responsive evaluation to explore Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as
a culturally responsive therapy. Responsive evaluation can be used to consider each unique client and therapist context,
culture, power, needs, and beliefs, and family and individual needs in determining a culturally responsive model of therapy.
In this presentation, we provide therapists and scholars a model for offering culturally responsive EMDR therapy and
research using responsive evaluation as a framework. An in-depth description of responsive evaluation will be provided, and
explanations and examples of how it is consistent with the goals and theories underlying culturally responsive therapy will
be given. Finally, concrete suggestions of how EMDR clinicians and scholars can apply this methodology will be provided. As
the EMDR continues to be taught and used across Asia, it is crucial that we continue to observe and respond to the needs of
clients throughout Asia.
Keywords: Asia Responsive Evaluation Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
336. Akemi, L. (2011, Novembro 20). Viva a autoestima! Conheça pessoas que viraram o jogo [Long live the self-esteem! Meet people who have turned the game]. Gazeta do Povo. Obtido em http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/viverbem/comportamento/conteudo.phtml?id=1193281&ch on Novembro 20, 2011.
Language: Portuguese
Format: Other
Esse processo de desmanche vem de traumas do passado. Algo acontece com a criança e ela cresce com essa desvalorização de si mesma, acreditando em coisas a respeito dela que são falsas, diz Carla, que trabalha com a terapia denominada Des¬¬sen¬¬sibilização e Reprocessa¬¬mento através de Movimentos Oculares EMDR, na sigla em inglês. Pode vir da relação com a família, colegas, professores. Casos de bullying, por exemplo, costumam deixar marcas profundas. Às vezes, a pessoa arranja mecanismos de defesa e consegue driblar. Mas qualquer coisa que acontece pode abalar sua autoconfiança.
This process of "dismantling" comes from past trauma. "Something happens to the child and it grows with this devaluation of herself, believing things about it that are untrue," said Carla, who works with therapy called Des sen ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ reprocesses raising and training through the Eye Movements - EMDR, its acronym in English. You can see the relationship with family, peers, teachers. Bullying, for example, often leave deep scars. "Sometimes the person arranges defense mechanisms and can dribble. But anything that happens can shake your confidence. " [Excerpt]
Accuracy Verified: Yes
337. Calof, D., Maltz, W., Shapiro, F., & Young, W. (1995, June). What can we learn from the false/delayed memory controversy?. Evening symposium and town meeting conducted at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Working with survivors of trauma and abuse can challenge or shatter therapists' basic beliefs about safety, goodness, and meaning,
leaving one anxious, vulnerable, uncertain and prone to countertmnsference act-out. Through discussion and structured ewences
that allow for individual pacing, participants in this experiential clinic will have an opportunity to identify, transform, and work
through issues of the self of the therapist including countertransferences, parallel process, secondary traumatization, and the intense
and sometime immobilizing existential crises that may result from this work. The leader will endeavor to create an enjoyable playful
climate of mutual respect, trust, confidentiality and containment throughout the day.
Educational objectives:
A. Participants will engage in group and individual exercises designed to break with injunctions, scripts and
internalizations left over from the family of origin that have prohibited personal authority and experimentation.
B. Through lecture/discussion and exercises, participants will explore countextramference issues, secondary PTSD, and
common therapeutic impasses and the existential crises they evoke in the self of the therapist.
C. Participants will engage in group and individual exercises designed to assist in the resolution of on-going
countertransference issues growing out of their current clinical practice.
(1)Benedeck, E.P. (1984). The silent scream; Countertransference reactions to victims. American Journal of Social Psychiatry, IV,
(2)Camstock, C.M. (1991). Countertransference and the suicidal MPD patient. Dissociation, Vol. IV, No. 1;25-35
Keywords: False Memory
Accuracy Verified: Yes
338. Tennis, C. (2005, September 15). What do I say to my 4-year-old about our house in New Orleans?. Salon.
Language: English
Format: Magazine
My family is from New Orleans.
The good news: We left early, before the storm. We never were in personal danger, and all of my family is safe.
We have been in hotels or with family. We have been fed and are physically comfortable.
Keywords: Children Katrina New Orleans
Accuracy Verified: Yes
339. Armstrong, R. (2008, June). What do the children say? Traumatised childrens experience of EMDR therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, London, England.
Language: English
Format: Conference
This study explored experiences of children treated with Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
(EMDR) for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The research aimed to understand more about salient aspects
of the therapy such as needing therapy, parent support, the relationship with the therapist and the impact of the
EMDR. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with nine children across England and Scotland, aged 10 to
16 years who had completed EMDR therapy within the past two years. Interpretative phenomenological analysis
(IPA) was used to elucidate the participants understanding of the effect of the EMDR therapy on their recovery
from PTSD. Three super-ordinate themes are identified which describe how the participants engaged in the
therapy, were assisted to keep going and what they made of EMDR. Results suggest that difficulties in engaging
in the therapy were overcome by determination to get better, support of family and friends, the credibility of the therapist and starting to feel better after about two sessions. EMDR was perceived as an effective therapy
despite initial scepticism, and an approach that generally did not require a conscious effort by the participant to
make it work. Findings are related to neurobiological hypotheses concerning underlying neurological mechanisms
for the resolution of traumatic memories. Practical implications fro improving clinical practice with children and
families will be presented.
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
340. Yoeli, F. R., & Prattos, T. (2007, June). When all you have is 90 minutes: A systemic approach to EMDR case conceptualization in times of stress following crisis. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
When all you have is 90 minutes with the hysterical and/or traumatized client in times of crisis, efficient planning and conceptualization of EMDR casework is essential.
Using EMD(R) as a means of reducing immediate exacerbated stress is effectively enhanced with a genogram format that is brief, and specifically focuses on learned generational reactions to trauma. By tapping into the trans-generational information the processing in crises is facilitated and enhanced.
This suggested case conceptualization and genogram format quickly highlights inherited strengths and resources which is the clients historical legacy. The client gains perspective recognizes that survival and overcoming the crisis is possible and acquires insight into valuable resources.
Following a crisis, when EMDR therapist and client first meet, the 1st stage is the retelling of the event.
After the story has been told, the EMDR therapist begins to gather historical family information. This has the effect of moving the client one tiny step away from crisis and calming the individual sufficiently for the therapist to begin to assess resources, and potential resources within the family system,
Additionally, the EMDR therapist finds resources for more meaningful and relevant cognitive interweaves while at the same item protecting himself from vicarious traumatization, compassion fatigue, and burn out. The suggested case conceptualization and multi-generational genogram use, uncovers inherited small t and large T trauma material and anxieties as well as leaned dysfunctional behavior patterns which are compounded over time, and which become a source of exacerbated present crisis reactions.
Once identified and recognized this accesses information enables a deeper and faster healing experience for the client.
The therapist recognizes potential pitfalls which may appear during the desensitization of the current crisis and is better prepared to formulate efficient cognitive interweaves as needs, for the current crisis resolution, without going in the reprocessing of the old trauma. This process fine tunes and fine lines the standard protocol for the EMDR session used in crisis interventions.
This format is adaptable and equally useful in standard consulting room sessions with clients for more effective case conceptualization for EMDR sessions. This multigenerational systemic approach enhances attunement, therapeutic clarity and the well being of the individual. It produces insight, recognizes resources and inner strengths and learned behavior patterns quickly
Case examples and a practicum will teach and enable participants to learn and assess for themselves how this multi-generational genogram approach unveils historical characteristics and learned behavior patterns. This systemic approach leads to enhance EMDR case conceptualization, enabling better formulation and accuracy of EMDR protocol components such as the NC and PC to attain more effective processing.
Keywords: Crisis Early Intervention
Accuracy Verified: Yes
341. Yoeli, F. R., & Prattos-Spongalides, T. A. (2006, June). When all you have is 90 minutes: A systemic approach to EMDR case conceptualization in times of stress and/or following crisis. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Istanbul, Turkey.
Language: English
Format: Conference
In crisis situations, hysterical and / or consultation with those working were traumatized, you have only 90 minutes and effectively EMDR should enhance the planning and conceptual. As a learned response to trauma Kuşaksal given to remove a short focused genogram format using EMDR / R will receive severe stress can increase the effectiveness in reducing. This is the case in the study group recommended the use of genogram format and now also the origin of the reaction can be, as concerns of hereditary small t traumas are revealed to the process, advice from the deeper and faster healing is to live. Case examples of different crisis situations (natural disasters, tsunami, a terrorist incident in Israel after a Greek and dysfunctional family) were taken and learned from family members kuşaksal genogram how to influence behavior patterns has been shown to occur. This systemic approach, an improved formulation suggests EMDR cases. This formulation, NC and the PC more effectively as components of EMDR are provided in the determination.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
342. Oras, R. (2001, May). When the trauma fades - Treatment of traumatised refuge children with EMDR. Presentation at the EMDR Europe Association annual meeting, London, UK .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Two case studies from a pilot study concerning treatment of traumatised refugee children
suffering from PTSD will be presented. The pilot study includes 13 children aged 7-17, from
different countries. Along with the treatment of the children we have seen the parents. The
aim of the study was to estimate if the applied methods: polahing, drawing, etc. combined
with EMDR, will lead to improvement of the PTSD symptoms. Before and after treatment
the children were examined and diagnosed according to DSM-N regarding PTSD symptoms.
Changes of PTSD symptoms or other child psychiatric symptoms, the family situation or
other relevant facts were checked continuously through interviews with the parents.
Keywords: Case Study Children Refuges Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
343. Scheiner, Z. (2002). When to seek EMDR treatment. EMDRNews.com.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
You've experienced a loss - your parent
died, your child died, your spouse died.
You went through the funeral and the
official mourning period. You've had
family members and fiiends by your side.
The casseroles appeared every morning;
the invitations to chat came regularly.
Everyone encouraged you to feel your
feelings, to be sad, to be angry, to be
whatever you happened to be.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
344. Knudsen, N. (2009, August). When trauma happens within the family: EMDR and the treatment of clients with challenging families. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Atlanta, GA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Traumatic events that originate within the family system leave an indelible mark on all involved. Family violence, sexual abuse, traumatic losses, or a long series of painful small moments throughout childhood can leave an individual at a loss of how or whether to connect with family. This workshop will help EMDR clinicians weave preparation and trauma processing throughout a treatment that takes into account the real life challenges that occur, sometimes at inopportune moments. Participants will learn when and how to use EMDR with present triggers that activate client trauma and effectively use the float forward and future templates before and after actual contacts to reinforce new approaches.
Keywords: Families
Accuracy Verified: Yes
345. Grinbaum, A., & Levy, M. (2007, June). Working with child care in public service. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Work in child care in a pubic service, brings us to accept all people who come to us whatever their origin (Mediterranean, Black Africa, Asia), their social class (from the most impoverished to the upper class), or any kind of difficulty (from school and socio-educational problems to autism or serious psychosis). We are psychologists, psychoanalysts ad family therapist with more than 25 years of experience. Through our work, we learned listening, patience, neutrality, and interpretation. While sometimes our experience brought us to invent means to come in contact with them, the EMDR method gave us another mode of relation with the child which is at the same time more flexible and closer to them. Since our training in 2004, we noticed a change in our practice ad in the attitude of our colleagues and fellow workers toward us. We would like to describe in this talk the feeling of freedom we felt to work with such a rigid protocol; to work differently with problems like drugs or sexual abuse as well as difficulties in early childhood to work in turn with the parent and the children, to work with the whole family while treating one of their members in from of them. We want to present some clinical examples and share with you the enthusiasm that this new therapy arouses in us after so many years of practice.
Keywords: Children Child Care Poster
Accuracy Verified: Yes
346. Wesselmann, D. (2012, June). Working with EMDR in adopted children and their parents. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Madrid, Spain.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Adoptives
Accuracy Verified: Yes
347. Gattinara, P. C. (2009). Working with EMDR in chronic incapacitating diseases: The experience of a neuromuscular diseases center. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 3(3), 169-177. doi:10.1891/1933-318.104.22.168.
Language: English
Format: Journal
This article examines the use of EMDR in a rehabilitation center to deal with traumatic experiences associated with serious incapacitating disease. Through clinical examples, the author describes the utility and function of EMDR treatment in helping both patients and their families overcome the frightening events related to the worsening of the illness and in helping them cope with feelings of loss and separation. The usefulness of attachment theory for a better comprehension of the dysfunctional interpersonal patterns that can arise between family members is discussed. In addition, the importance of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is explored in helping to facilitate secure attachment relationships between patients and their caregivers, allowing the families to grow closer and more supportive. EMDR appears to offer specific advantages in treating this especially difficult population, affording patients who live with a chronic condition of extreme physical vulnerability a sense of greater control over their own bodies and therefore over their own lives.
Keywords: Attachment Neuromuscular Pathologies Respiratory Crisis Traumatic Events
Accuracy Verified: Yes
348. Dellucci, H. (2010, June). Working with letters and EMDR: How, when, why. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Hamburg, Germany.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Relationship trauma i s among the most difficult to
treat, due to their personal character, numerous targets and
often roots in early life. On the other hand, many memories
can be withdrawn in amnesia, and thus difficult to reach with
standard EMDR protocol.
The EMDR letters protocol, presented in 2009 in Amsterdam
has been refined, in its procedure, the ways and cases in which
it can been used (individual setting, family therapy, supervision.
with people having dissociative parts) and its validation through
This workshop will present the EMDR letters protocol, its application
fields and the results of a clinical research with thirty
if the workshop duration makes it possible, we will show a video.
Keywords: Letters
Accuracy Verified: Yes