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Treatment of PTSD by eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) improves sleep quality, quality of life, and perception of stress

The impact of PTSD on the sleep of patients is widely reported. However, the parameters that can be altered are not the same for all patients. Some studies report an impairment of sleep maintenance and recurrent nightmares, while others failed to…

Tags: Adult, Anxiety, Crime, Depression, Empirical Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Quality of Life, Quantitative Study, Sleep, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Enhancement of victim empathy along with reduction in anxiety and increase of positive cognition of sex offenders after treatment with EMDR: Maintenance after three years

Treatment of sex offenders who have been themselves sexually abused in their childhood, offers a significant challenge for many therapists. The traumas related to abuse are unique to the individual offender and need to be addressed to enhance victim…

Tags: Anxiety, Cognition, Datta Empathy Scale, Sex Offender

Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing and specific state anxiety in female gymnasts

Forty-two female gymnasts ages 10-16 participated in a study to determine the effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) on state anxiety. Each subject identified excessive anxiety on a gymnastics element resulting from a…

Tags: Anxiety, Empirical Study, Female, Gymnast, Quantitative Study

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of anxiety as it pertains to work-related issues

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,…

Tags: Anxiety, Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, Occupational Stress, Stress Management, Treatment Outcome, Workplace Stress

Eye movement desensitization reprocessing for the treatment of anxiety in psychology internship applicants: An interrupted time series design

This study used an interrupted time series design to study the effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization Processing (EMDR) on the anxiety levels of 17 psychology graduate student participants who were in the process of applying to psychology…

Tags: Anxiety, Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, Interrupted Time Series Design, Treatment Outcome

The use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in treating a public speaking anxiety/phobia for individuals of high, moderate, and low absorption ability

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a relatively new and seemingly effective but controversial therapeutic treatment used primarily for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and related anxiety disorders such as phobias. In this…

Tags: Anxiety, Eye Movements, Phobias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Public Speaking, Public Speaking Anxiety

EMDR in the treatment of anxiety as it pertains to work-related issues

Participants will: 1) learn the components to the Reality Model and how each component impacts a person's behavior; 2) understand how specific measurement instruments can distinguish one's thinking and behavioral styles and in turn lead to the…

Tags: Anxiety, Reality Model, Workplace Stress

Utilizing EMDR to reduce the fear of public speaking

Participants will: 1) understand Beck's formulation of evaluation anxieties in general and speech anxiety in particular; 2) learn the research-based cognitive-behavioral (CB) strategies helpful in reducing speech anxiety; 3) and learn a modified EMDR…

Tags: Anxiety, Beck, Process Phobia Protocol, Protocol, Public Speaking, Speech Anxiety

Open forum to share clinical uses of EMDR with child/adolescent population

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…

Tags: ADHD, Anxiety, Attachment Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Children and Adolescents, Developmental Considerations, Open Forum

Pre-war anxiety, embedded traumata, dissociative behavior and proactive treatment with EMDR to prevent complex PTSD

Tags: Anxiety, C-PTSD, Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex PTSD, Dissociation

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is een nieuwe behandelingsmethode voor posttraumatische stress–stoornis en andere trauma–gerelateerde angstklachten. In essentie behelst EMDR het volgende: cliënten nemen een traumatische of…

Tags: Anxiety, Case Study, Children, Female, Phobias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Spider Phobia, Trauma-Related Anxiety

Een nieuwe behandelingsmethode voor angst en trauma's: ‘Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing’ A new treatment for anxiety and trauma: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

In deze bijdrage wordt een beschrijving gegeven van de achtergronden en principes van ‘Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing’ ( EMDR), een recente ontwikkeling op het gebied van de psychotherapie. Deze procedure wordt gepresenteerd als een…

Tags: Anxiety, Trauma

Technique aids people with anxiety

Clinical social worker Jocelyne Shiromoto might have cured a patient's infertility with a few waves of her hand. Shiromoto does not claim her fingers have magic wandlike powers. What she did was a process called Eye Movement Desensitization and…

Tags: Anxiety, Jocelyne Shiromoto

Treatment of anxiety and phobias with EMDR: Rapid conceptualization: Effective procedures and proposals for changes of the protocol

Fears and phobias associated with EMDR situations where a single event for the well-structured, and short-term treatment is not compelling. Exposure in vivo EMDR'ın cognitive behavioral interventions, such as advantages, the fear-inspiring…

Tags: Anxiety, Phobias

Eye movement desensitization useful against anxiety, trauma

The Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) procedure, developed by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., was introduced as a new rapid treatment for anxiety and related traumata. Dr. Shapiro serendipitously discovered that lateral eye movements…

Tags: Anxiety, Trauma

Eye movement desensitization & reprocessing: A rapid treatment modality for anxiety and trauma

Tags: Anxiety, Trauma

The use of EMDR with a behavioural cognitive approach in the treatment of a patient with a long history of depression and anxiety

I used EMDR with a 45 year-old man called David who presented with a long history of depressive anxiety episodes, characterized by intense feelings of fear and anger, the later directed at women whom he had always fear and by whom he felt rejected.

Tags: Anxiety, Depression

Eye movement desensitization procedure: A new treatment for anxiety

The Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) procedure is a recently developed rapid treatment for anxiety and traumatic memories. Although, according to the DSM-III, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops from a "psychologically traumatic event…

Tags: Anxiety, Commentary, EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Hypnotherapy

Treating the trauma of panic and understanding panic as an aspect of trauma

Anxiety, although experienced by everyone, is unique and complex in the Panic Disordered client. Therapists who will be treating these clients need to comprehend the overwhelming experience of panic; its life-altering consequences; underlying causes;…

Tags: Anxiety, Panic, Trauma

EMDR: The breakthrough therapy for overcoming anxiety, stress, and trauma (1st Ed.)

Hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has successfully treated psychological problems and illnesses--from depression, phobias, and recurrent nightmares to…

Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Emotional Trauma, Grief, Major Depression, Mental Disorders, Nightmares, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stress, Therapy, Trauma

Medical Q & A

It may be very effective to seek brief psychotherapy to reduce the experienced stressfulness of unchangeable life circumstances or to evaluate possible changes in other conditions. 2) You may benefit from coaching in relaxation methods that can be…

Tags: Anxiety, Mary Schlesinger

The imprint of childhood physical and emotional abuse: A case study on the use of EMDR to address anxiety and lack of self-esteem

This article examines the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in helping a client address problems with persistent anxiety and a lack of self-esteem. During EMDR treatment, the client explored the dichotomous thinking that had…

Tags: Adult, Anxiety, Child Abuse, Childhood Emotional Abuse, Childhood Physical Abuse, Clinical Case Study, Emotional Abuse, Empirical Study, Female, Lack of Self-Esteem, Patient History, Self-Esteem

Family unification with reactive attachment disorder: A brief treatment

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…

Tags: Anxiety, Attachment Disorder, Children, Educational Counseling, Family, Family Therapy, Family Unification, Individual Psychotherapy, Parent Child Relations, RAD, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Treatment

The instinct to heal: Curing stress, anxiety, and depression without drugs and without talk therapy

The seven natural treatment approaches that the author describes in this book all capitalize on the mind and brain's own healing mechanisms for recovering from depression, anxiety, and stress. All seven methods have been researched and studies…

Tags: Anxiety, Brain, Depression, Emotional Brain, Emotions, Heart Rate, Heart Rate Coherence Training, Major Depression, Natural Treatment Approach, Neuropsychology, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Stress

EMDR anxiety relief with a flick of the eye?

Critics call EMDR "laughable" while believers call it "miraculous." You will discover that the acronym stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, but you won't find a solid definition anywhere.

Tags: Anxiety, General, Overview, Topeka

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Innovative clinical applications

Neurologically-based therapies such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are being clinically implemented and researched in the field of psychotherapy. While EMDR has a theoretical base and some research support for its…

Tags: Anxiety, Conflict, Depressive Disorders, Dyspareunia, Eating Disorders, Interpersonal Interaction, Phobias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Sexual Dysfunction, Somatic Symptom, Stressors, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Does a visual perceptual disturbance characterize trauma-related anxiety syndromes?

The i-test was developed to assess the visual-perceptual disturbances (VPDs) frequently reported by anxious patients. Persons with the disturbance report a specific abnormal illusion of movement when they maintain a fixed gaze at the i-test stimulus.…

Tags: Adult, Anxiety, Assessment, Children and Adolescents, Depressive Disorder, Female, Injury, Male, Memory Retrieval Technique, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Somatic Symptoms, Survivors, Trauma, Treatment Effectiveness, Visual Hallucinations, Visual Perceptual Disturbance, Witness

Efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing procedure in the treatment of traumatic memories: A replication study

The purpose of this replication study was either to support or refute the original Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing research conducted by Shapiro. The present study was amended with two additional indices to assess anxiety and social…

Tags: Adult, Anxiety, Child Abuse, Empirical Study, Experimental Replication, Incest, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Self-Evaluation, Social Adjustment, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Efficacy of "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" in reducing anxiety and unpleasant feelings due to earthquake experience

To investigate the efficacy of "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" (EMDR) in reducing earthquake anxiety and negative feelings resulting from earthquake experience, 41 persons who underwent the stress of the earthquake in Bam, were…

Tags: Anxiety, Earthquakes, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Follow-up Study, Natural Disaster, Quantitative Study, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT, Unpleasant Feelings

Efficacy of the eye movement desensitization procedure in the treatment of traumatic memories

The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the recently developed Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) procedure on traumatic memory symptomatology. 22 subjects suffering from symptoms related to traumatic memories were used in the…

Tags: Americans, Anxiety, Combat, EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Incest, Memories, Molestation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Randomized Controlled Trial, Rape, RCT, Survivor, Trauma, Veterans, Vietnam, War

A combined approach: Using EMDR within a framework of solution focused brief therapy

This paper reports on a qualitative, exploratory study that creatively combined two therapeutic approaches: eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) and solution focused brief therapy. It was expected that the use of techniques drawn from…

Tags: Anxiety, Brief Psychotherapy, Children's Techniques, Educational Psychology, Empirical Study, Group Intervention, Group Psychotherapy, Primary School Children, Problem Solving, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Qualitative Study, Self-Confidence, Shyness, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Timidity

Taking a closer look, can moving your eyes back and forth help to ease anxiety?

More than 500 brands of psychotherapy exist, with new ones springing up on a nearly monthly basis. Although a handful of these neophyte treatments have been tested in scientific studies, it is anybody’s guess whether the others actually work.

Tags: Anxiety, Efficacy

ABC de l'EMDR: La thérapie des émotions ABC of EMDR: Therapy emotions

Tout au longe de notre vie, nous subissons des événements traumatisants : maladie, deuil, accident... S'en suivent stress, angoisse, dépression. Une nouvelle thérapie d'origine américaine vient de voir le jour : l'EMDR (Eyes Movement Desensitization…

Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Stress

How fear differs from anxiety

Animal models conceptualize anxiety as a response to potential danger while fear is a response to present danger. The way humans experience anxiety involves our capacity for higher thinking while the human experience of fear appears to be much the…

Tags: Anxiety, Cognitive Neuroscience, Fear, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Effect of EMDR on anxiety and swimming times

This study investigated the effect of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) on swimmers who had experienced a traumatic swimming event. Measures of performance, anxiety, and self-perception in (N = 65) competitive college and high…

Tags: Anxiety, Competitive Swimmer, Mental Block, Swimming

Psychotherapy's new tool - "EMDR" takes aim at anxiety

"It's not really a verbal therapy," says Carrie Brown, a trauma victim who, after several EMDR sessions, overcame the negative self-perception that typically follows victims of sexual abuse. Updated: Saturday, October 10, 2009

Tags: Anxiety, General, Overview

Pre-war anxiety as impacted by previously unreported (embedded) trauma & EMDR: A preliminary hypothesis

Tags: Anxiety, Mass Disaster, Symposium, Treatment, War

Observing the resurfacing of pre-war embedded anxieities in cross cultural examples and EMDR

Tags: Anxiety, Cross Cultural, Symposium

An exploratory study of the effects of EMDR on state/trait anxiety and anger in adult male sex offenders

The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the effects of EMDR on state and trait anxiety and anger levels associated with developmental traumas of sexual offenders in outpatient sex offender treatment. A qualitative component explored…

Tags: Anger, Anxiety, Criminal, Empirical Study, Outpatient, Qualitative Study, Quantitative Study, Sex Offender, Sex Offense, Trauma, Treatment

Treating trauma, depression and anxiety in gay men with childhood trauma histories using EMDR

Mental health research tells us that gay men use psychological services in far more greater numbers than their heterosexual counterparts. Gay men typically present themselves in treatment for problems relating to depression and anxiety, often the…

Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexuality

Učinkovitost metode EMDR pri zmanjševanju anksioznosti, ki jo povzroča priklic nepredelanega spomina Efficacy of the method EMDR in reduction of anxiety, caused by recall of unprocessed memory

Študija descibed v tem članku preveri, če lahko metoda EMDR (Eye Movement desenzibilizacijo in predelavo), zmanjšati ali celo odpraviti tesnobe, oziroma širitev anksioznost kot stanje (STAI-X-1), ki jo povzroča odpoklic nepredelanega spomina. Tam je…

Tags: Anxiety, Effectiveness Study, Memory, Research Method

Eye movement desensitization (EMD) procedure: A rapid treatment of anxiety and related trauma

Tags: Anxiety, EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Roundtable, Trauma

Controversial therapy could reduce trauma

Discusses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR)--a controversial new treatment for psychological trauma. Talk of EMDR has been sweeping through the popular press over the past few months. Headlines have called the treatment…

Tags: Anxiety, Flashback, Intrusive Thought Process, Nightmare, Therapy, Trauma, Traumatic Memory, Treatment

Als tijd niet heelt If time does not heal

Tijd heelt niet alle wonden. De moeder die haar eigen kidn zag voronglukken. Het kind dat meerdeere malen s misbruikt. Het moment dat de overvaller de een mes op de keel drukte. Herinneringen die zo anstaanjagend of verdrietig zijn, dat ze j eleven…

Tags: Anxiety, Panic

Comparison of efficacy of eye movement, desensitization and reprocessing and cognitive behavioral therapy therapeutic methods for reducing anxiety and depression of Iranian combatant afflicted by post traumatic stress disorder

This research aims to determine efficacy of two therapeutic methods and compare them: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for reduction of anxiety and depression for Iranian combatant afflicted…

Tags: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Depression, Depressive Disorder, Iranians, Middle Aged, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD, Treatment Effectiveness, Veterans, War

Current anxiety and behavior

This protocol is for clients with anxieties not related to major trauma. The focus here is the Standard EMDR Protocol. This is a summary of the Current Anxiety and Behavior Protocol scripted by Marilyn Luber (Shapiro, 2001, 2006). For current anxiety…

Tags: Anxiety, Behavior Problems, Current Anxiety, Memory, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique

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