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Facilitating the journey from fear to love: using EMDR to treat attachment problems in children and adults

Children who suffer emotional wounds within their earliest attachment experiences frequently build strong walls of defense that continue into adulthood. Participants will learn to identify anxious core beliefs related to unhealthy attachment patterns…

Tags: Adult, Attachment, Children, Keynote

CIPOS: A bridge between stabilization and trauma confrontation with simple and complex trauma in adults and children

Tags: Adult, Children, CIPOS, Complex Trauma, Constant Installation of Present Orientation and Safety, Simple Trauma

Scientific resistance to research, training and utilization of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in treating post-war disorders

In this study, Barber's [(1961). Resistance by scientists to scientific discovery. Science, 134, 596-602] analysis of scientists' resistance to discoveries is examined in relation to an 18-year controversy between the dominant cognitive-behavioral…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Health Personnel Attitude, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Scientific Research

Adult PTSD and its treatment with EMDR: A review of controversies, evidence, and theoretical knowledge

This article provides an overview of selective issues relating to adult posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its treatment with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). The article begins by providing a historical overview of PTSD,…

Tags: Adult, Mechanism of Action, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Review, Theory

The EMDR drawing protocol for adults

At certain points in my clinical practice, after I began using EMDR consistently, I would have clients come in who could not describe a specific scene or image for us to use as the target, yet, they would usually have a clear negative cognition that…

Tags: Adult, Drawing Protocol, Negative Cognition, Protocol, Psychodrama, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Standard Protocol, Therapeutic Drawing, Trauma

Rape treatment outcome research: Empirical findings and state of the literature

This article reviews empirical support for treatments targeting women sexually assaulted during adolescence or adulthood. 32 articles were located using data from 20 separate samples. Of the 20 samples, 12 targeted victims with chronic symptoms, 3…

Tags: Adult, Cognitive Therapy, Drug Therapy, Epidemiology, Exposure Therapy, Female, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Treatment, Treatment Effectiveness

Introduction to imaginal nurturing with EMDR in the treatment of adult clients with insecure attachment

Tags: Adult, Attachment, Imaginal Nurturing

The trauma-attachment tangle: Let's help children and parents out of the bind

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…

Tags: Adult, Attachment, Children, Trauma Treatment

EMDR practice guidelines - EMDR with adults

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing [EMDR] (Shapiro, 1989) is a treatment technique during which accelerated processing of traumatic memory is facilitated through the shifting of attention between the left and right hemispheres of the…

Tags: Adult, Clinical Guidelines Reviewed

De-stress: A qualitative investigation of EMDR treatment

There is no qualitative knowledge of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with a sub-clinical stressed population. The vast majority of EMDR research has focused on traumatized populations, leaving a significant gap in what the…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Effects, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Promoting mental health following the London bombings: A screen and treat approach

Following the 2005 London bombings, a novel public health program was instituted to address the mental health needs of survivors. In this article, the authors describe the rationale for the program, characteristics of individuals assessed within the…

Tags: Adult, Bombings, British, Cognitive Therapy, Epidemiology, London Transport Bombing, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychiatric Disorders, PTSD, Survivor, Terrorism, Treatment Effectiveness, Victim Services

Trastorno de estres postraumatico (TEPT), Gestion del TEPT en ninos y adultos en atencion primaria y secundaria Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD): Management of PSTD in children and adults in primary and secondary care

Se debe ofrecer a todas las personas con TEPT el curso de un tratamiento psicológico centrado en el trauma (terapia cognitivoconductual –TCC- centrada en el trauma o reprocesamiento y desensibilización por movimientos oculares- EMDR-). Estos…

Tags: Adult, Children, Guidelines, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Facilitating the journey from fear to love: Using EMDR to treat attachment problems in children and adults

Children who suffer emotional wounds within their earliest attachment experiences frequently build strong walls of defense that continue into adulthood. Participants will learn to identify anxious core beliefs related to unhealthy attachment patterns…

Tags: Adult, Attachment, Children

Treatment of adults: Eye movement desensitization

This chapter discusses several non-pharmaceutical treatments for PTSD in adults, including behavioural and cognitive approaches, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.

Tags: Adult, Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, PTSD, Survivor

Treatment of reactivated post-traumatic stress disorder: Imaginal exposure in an older adult with multiple traumas

A single-case analysis was used to assess the effects of imaginal exposure in a 57-year-old woman suffering from current and reactivated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following a transient ischemic attack. The client’s responses to…

Tags: Adult, Imaginal Exposure, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma

War-related medically unexplained symptoms, prevalence, and treatment: Utilizing EMDR within the armed services

The mental health impact of war is often underestimated by military, government, and media officials who focus primarily on well-known conditions like depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while ignoring the complex toll of modern…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Combat, Iraq War, Marine Personnel, Medically Unexplained Symptom, Military Psychiatry, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Somatic Symptom, Veterans, War Syndromes

My worst nightmare: A nurse's personal account of assault and recovery

A personal account of a psychiatric nurse's attack by a patient and her direct experience with PTSD.

Tags: Adult, Americans, Battery, Female, Injury, Nurse, Personal Narrative, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Workplace Trauma

EMDR in the treatment of adults abused as children

Tags: Adult

Diagnosis and treatment of Adult ADHD – A life changing issue

Tags: ADHD, Adult, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symposium

Cognitive-behavioral therapy with adults

Tags: Adult, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

EMDR terms and procedures: Resolution of uncomplicated depression

This chapter presents an example of a relatively uncomplicated eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment, which can provide a basis for understanding the more complex aspects of cases. The Ss was a man in his 40s with depression…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Child Abuse, Depressive Disorder, Male, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Rape, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of traumatized gay men

Describes the theory and practice of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment (EMDR), presents a survey of its applications to traumatized gay male clients, and offers an illustrative case study to highlight the utility of EMDR. In the…

Tags: Adult, Emotional Trauma, Gay Male, Homosexual, Homosexuality, Male, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor

EMDR treatment of combat-related guilt: A study of the effects of eye movements

This purpose of this study was to investigate the role of eye movements in EMDR, and to test the efficacy of EMDR in the treatment of guilt associated with combat-trauma. A single-case multiple component cross-over design across seven participants…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Guilt, Poster, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness, Veterans, War

Die kunst des lassens: Psychotherapie mit EMDR fur erwachsene und kinder The art of giving. EMDR for adults and children

Das Buch beschreibt auf sehr lebendige Weise, mit vielen Fallbeispielen, wie das EMDR und die moderne Hirnforschung die Psychotherapie auf eine völlig neue Grundlage gestellt haben und uns Möglichkeiten an die Hand gegeben haben, die vorher nicht…

Tags: Adult, Children

L’eye 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

L’Eye 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…

Tags: Adolescents, Adult, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Sexual Abuse

Neuroanatomical changes after eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment in posttraumatic stress disorder

Several authors have found smaller hippocampal volumes in patients with PTSD and some have suggested that psychotropic drugs may promote hippocampus neurogenesis and reverse the decrease in hippocampus volume.1 However, the only study that has…

An open trial of EMDR as treatment for chronic PTSD

In a prepilot study, 8 adults with chronic PTSD underwent 3 90-minute sessions of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) at 1-week intervals in an open trial. None of the 7 who completed treatment met criteria for current PTSD 2 months…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Clinical Trial, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Protocolo grupal e integrativo con EMDR: Intervención post-catástrofe para niños y adultos EMDR integrative group treatment: A postdisaster trauma intervention for children and adults

El Reprocesamiento y Desensibilización a través del Movimiento Ocular (EMDR) por sus siglas en inglés, es reconocido como un tratamiento efectivo y eficiente para tratar asuntos relacionados con trauma. Este artículo describe la aplicación de una…

Tags: Adolescents, Adult, Argentines, Colombians, Group Psychotherapy, Mexicans, Natural Disasters, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans, School Age Children, Survivors, Trauma, Venezuelans

Comparing the efficacy of EMDR and trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of PTSD: A meta-analytic study

Background: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) are both widely used in the treatment of PTSD. There has, however, been debate regarding the advantages of one approach over the…

Tags: Adult, Cognitive Therapy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

A clinical vignette: EMDR treatment of choking phobia

A vignette is a brief case report that makes a contribution to the literature, but which has used only EMDR's standard protocol measures. This vignette describes the treatment of a woman who developed a severe choking phobia following an allergic…

Tags: Adult, Anaphylactic Shock, Case Study, CBT, Child Abuse, Choking Phobia, Eating Disorders, Female, Phobias, Spouse Abuse, Survivor

Evidence of a decrease in heart rate and skin conductance responses in PTSD patients after a single EMDR session

Patients with PTSD demonstrate abnormal psychophysiological responses to stressful events. Given that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy appears to be a treatment of choice for trauma victims, the aim of the present study…

Tags: Adult, Arousal, Clinical Trial, Electrodermal Activity, Empirical Study, French, Heart Rate, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychophysiology, PTSD, Quantitative Study Skin Conductance, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment, Treatment Effectiveness

Three case reports illustrating the use of the protocol for recent traumatic events following the World Trade Center terrorist attack

Following the attacks on the New York World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program initiated a response establishing the New York City Disaster Mental Health Recovery Network. The network provided coordination…

Tags: 9/11, Adult, Americans, Case Study, Man-Made Disaster, Recent Traumatic Events Protocol, RTE, September 11, Survivor, Terrorism, Terrorist Attacks

EMDR-HAP training in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami

On December 26, 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a catastrophic tsunami. In Sri Lanka, 35,000 people died, 21,000 were injured, and more than half a million were displaced. An EMDR training program was conducted as a joint project of…

Tags: Adult, Children, Cross-Cultural Treatment, Humanitarian Effort, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Mental Health Personnel, Personal Narrative, Professional Training, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankans, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Tsunami

EMDR after a critical incident: Treatment of a tsunami survivor with acute posttraumatic stress disorder

Research indicates that EMDR is effective for the treatment of PTSD, with numerous studies showing a high percentage of symptom remission after 3 sessions. The case of a tsunami survivor with acute PTSD is presented. Treatment for overt trauma…

Tags: Adult, Brief Psychotherapy, Case Study, Critical Incident, Disaster, Disaster-Response, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Italians, Male, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Recent Event, Survivor, Trauma, Tsunami

Combating tsunami disaster through EMDR

After the 2004 tsunami devastation in Sri Lanka, many citizens experienced severe psychological reactions. The effectiveness of EMDR is illustrated in the treatment of 7 of these individuals: 3 children and 2 adults with PTSD symptoms and 2 adults…

Tags: Adult, Children, Disaster, Recent Event, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Tsunami

Validity of the subjective units of disturbance scale in EMDR

To test the psychometric properties of the Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale (SUDS), this study analyzed the data from 61 patients treated with EMDR. The pretreatment self-reported questionnaires, the in-session records of EMDR, and the Clinical…

Tags: Adult, Koreans, Self Report Instrument, Stressor, Subjective Units of Disturbance, SUD, Survivor, Validity

EMDR and olfactory reference syndrome: A case series

Olfactory reference syndrome (ORS) is an illness currently considered a delusional disorder under the DSM-IV criteria. Patients believe that they emit a foul odor, causing them great emotional distress and negative social consequences. Its etiology…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing, Adult, AIP, Case Study, Delusional Disorder, Female, Olfactory Reference Symptoms, ORS, Shame, Stressor, Survivor, Trauma, Treatment Effectiveness

Trauma resolution treatment as an adjunct to standard treatment for child molesters: A qualitative study

A literature review of current treatment models for child molesters and contemporary theories of etiology suggests a gap between theory and practice. Despite emerging recognition of the importance of addressing etiological issues in sexual offender…

Tags: Abuse Propensity, Adult, Child Abuse, Child Molester, Clinical Trial, Cognitive Therapy, European American, Male, Perpetrators, Qualitative, Rape, Sex Offender, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Outcome is stable in 35-month follow-up

PTSD is an anxiety disorder that may follow major psychological trauma. The disorder is longstanding, even chronic, and there is a need for effective treatment. The most effective short-term treatments are cognitive behavioural therapy and eye…

Tags: Accident, Adult, Assaults, Conditioning, Follow-up Study, Longitudinal Study, Occupational Health, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Railroad Accident, Swedes, Transport Worker, Treatment Effectiveness

Alterations in autonomic tone during trauma exposure using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) - Results of a preliminary investigation

EMDR combines stimuli that evoke divided attention – e.g. eye movements – with exposure to traumatic memories. Our objective was to investigate psycho-physiological correlates of EMDR during treatment sessions. A total of 55 treatment sessions from…

Tags: Adult, Empirical Study, Germans, Impedance Cardiography, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD, Psychophysiology, Quantitative Study, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

The efficacy of EMDR for survivors of a natural disaster: Intervention after Hurricane Floyd

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is considered effective for civilian PTSD, but no controlled evaluation of EMDR, or any other treatment for PTSD, has been conducted with adults in a natural disaster context. Following Hurricane…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Depressive Disorder, Female, Hurricane Floyd, Hurricanes, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT, Recent Event, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

A randomized clinical trial of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), fluoxetine, and pill placebo in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: Treatment effects and long-term maintenance

Objective: The relative short-term efficacy and long-term benefits of pharmacologic versus psychotherapeutic interventions have not been studied for PTSD. This study compared the efficacy of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI),…

Tags: Adult, Depressive Disorder, Empirical Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Quantitative Study, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, SSRIs, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Efficacy of various treatments for PTSD in battered women: Case studies

Spousal abuse and other forms of domestic violence can lead to PTSD. Little is known about how to best treat this form of PTSD. The current case series, based on data collected as part of a larger clinical trial, was designed to evaluate the…

Tags: Adult, Battered Women, Canadians, Domestic Violence, Empirical Study, Exposure Therapy, Female, Follow-up Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD, Relaxation Training, Spouse Abuse, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization: A partial dismantling study

23 PTSD subjects were exposed to either: (1) standard eye movement desensitization (EMD), (2) a variant of EMD in which eye movements were engendered through a light tracking task, or (3) a variant of EMD in which fixed visual attention replaced eye…

Tags: Adult, Americans, EMD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization across subjects: Subjective and physiological measures of treatment efficacy

Eye movement desensitization (EMD) was investigated in an experimental multiple baseline across subjects design. Six subjects who met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD were included in the study. While the EMD technique advanced by Shapiro has been…

Tags: Adult, Americans, EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychophysiology, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Treating trauma and substance abuse

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a new psychological methodology that has been applied to a wide range of psychological disorders. Clinical reports over the past three years indicate that it is an important addition to the…

Tags: Adult, Drug Abuse, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Stressor, Survivor

A pilot study of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment (EMDR) for post-traumatic stress after childbirth

Objective: To explore the possibility of using eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) to treat women who have experienced post-traumatic stress after childbirth. Design: The pilot study consisted of a "before and after" treatment design…

Tags: Adult, Childbirth, Female, Longitudinal Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Swedes, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization versus image confrontation: A single-session crossover study of 58 phobic subjects

Eye movement desensitization (EMD) and a control procedure, image confrontation (IC) were compared in a group of 58 phobics, 31 of them arachnophobes. [There were 7 cases of "traumatic phobia" and 1 of "classical PTSD."] Subjects confronted…

Tags: Accident, Adult, British, Dog Bite, Dog Phobia, EMD, Exposure Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization, Phobias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Effect of bilateral eye movements on frontal interhemispheric gamma EEG coherence: Implications for EMDR therapy

The use of bilateral eye movements (EMs) is an important component of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for PTSD. The neural mechanisms underlying EMDR remain unclear. However, prior behavioral work looking at the effects…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Brain Imaging, College Students, Eye Movements, Neurophysiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Quantitative Study

The role of the traumatic component in the etiology of sexual dysfunctions and its treatment with eye movement desensitization procedure

This is the first field report of the application of the Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) procedure to the treatment of sexual dysfunctions. EMD and its application are described using case illustrations.When a careful examination of clients is…

Tags: Adult, EMD, Etiology, Eye Movement Desensitization, Israelis, Male, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Sexual Dysfunction, Treatment Effectiveness

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