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Survivors of early emotional neglect experience pervasive difficulties including vulnerability to adult psychiatric disorders and inability to regulate emotional states (Schore, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001a, 2001b; Teicher, 2000, 2002; Teicher et al,…

This workshop will address two of the most challenging issues in EMDR treatment of individuals with affect dysregulation from early traumatic experience, including emotional neglect and attachment failure. It will offer protocols to: 1) increase…

This chapter presents favorite activities for the preparation stage of the protocol that interweaves EMDR principles into art, play, and storytelling to build safety, develop affect tolerance, and engage children in their own healing. Therapists who…

Some clients, because of very difficult life experience, have low affect tolerance; that is, they are unable to endure, even briefly, their own intensely disturbing post-traumatic images and affect. For these clients, the therapeutic benefits of EMDR…

Participants will learn: 1) how EMDR is used in indepth psychotherapy; 2) how to access the clients current level of affect tolerance; and what affect education needs the client may have; 3) how to conceptualize the use of metaphors for affect…

AMST blends EMDR, imagery, and ego state therapy to assist clients in developing affect tolerance and can be used with extremely vulnerable clients to prepare them for safe EMDR processing. Practicum and video demonstration will be used.