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Preparing parents for nonviolent resistance using EMDR

Aggressive and self-destructive behavior among adolescents brings parents to despair. The same goes for school refusal, compulsive gaming, and other problem behaviors. From a systems-therapy point of view the behavior of the adolescent is maintained…

Tags: Attachment, Children and Adolescents, Family

Better than nothing: EMDR for children and adults in remote areas

Many chronically traumatized children and families live in remote areas without access to specialized trauma treatment. Local practitioners need to be generalists and their isolated position often withholds them from taking the risk of opening up…

Tags: Attachment, Children and Adolescents, Family, Special Population

Working with attachment dynamics across the life span: The attachment protocol

The focus of the workshop is to underline the importance of attachment relationships in the first stages of the child’s life and the powerful impact on his/her future psychological, emotional and cognitive development. The objective of this workshop,…

Tags: Attachment, Attachment Protocol, Children and Adolescents

EMDR therapy preparation for adults with attachment trauma

The Preparation Phase of EMDR therapy is critical for stabilizing clients who have attachment trauma: Clients need to begin to access, strengthen, and utilize the AIP through repair of the internal structure of enmeshed and cut-off parts, and develop…

Tags: Adult, Attachment, Preparation

The impact of attachment in EMDR therapy: Theory and practice with video

Insecure and disorganized attachments profoundly affect the developmental trajectory of the future adult. In those with an early history of trauma, childhood emotional neglect increases the risk of developing borderline personality and dissociative…

Tags: Attachment

Research papers: Treating attachment injuries with EMDR therapy: Changes in frontal theta cordance

Tags: Attachment, Frontal Theta Cordance, Research

Integrating EMDR into attachment work with children

This half day workshop is designed to assist child therapists working with children who have attachment disruptions to learn adaptations for integrating EMDR into the attachment healing process. The workshop is divided into three different parts. The…

Tags: Attachment, Children

Working on attachment issues with EMDR Therapy: The attachment protocolSummary sheet: Working on attachment issues with EMDR therapy: The attachment protocol (Luber)

Tags: Attachment, Attachment Protocol, Protocol

Child attachment trauma protocolSummary sheet: Child attachment trauma protocol (Luber)

Tags: Attachment, Attachment Trauma Protocol, Protocol, Trauma

Treating early attachment wounds with EMDR therapy

While EMDR is often the treatment choice for many psychotherapists working with the sequelae of overt trauma, it is less widely used in the treatment of early attachment disruptions. Understanding attachment from the AIP model is crucial for an…

Tags: Attachment

Free the hidden heart: Resources and attachment work in resistant depression

Depression is a world leading cause of disability, with huge human and social costs. Psychopharmacological treatments alone are effective in less than 30% of cases. Psychotherapy alone or combined with drugs, has gained recognition as the most…

Tags: Attachment, Depression

Repairing attachment and internal working models with EMDR: Research and practice

Bowlby (1969; 1973) describes attachment relationship as a proximity‐seeking behavior, beginning early in infancy, and regulated by an innate attachment behavioral system, the function of which is to obtain protection and care from the attachment…

Tags: Attachment

EMDR for the next generation - Healing children and families, 2nd Edition

This book is about developing an integrative model of doing EMDR psychotherapy in a multi-faceted way in order to get close to children's reality and to help them and their families heal. It explains how emphasis has to be placed on several…

Tags: Attachment, Children, Developmental Psychology, Family, Family Dynamic, Neurobiology, Psychotraumatology

Attachment pathology from the AIP perspective: Learning through human sculpture

This workshop will explore the nature of insecure attachment and relevant EMDR procedures using bilateral stimulation from the perspective of the Adap-tive Information Processing (AIP) Model. The workshop will be presented in “sculpture” format…

Tags: Attachment

Attachment at the societal level: Reprocessing internalized stigma and oppression

“Insecure attachment” also occurs on the societal level. All peo-ple experience another profound attachment challenge as they seek to integrate into the larger society. Many of our clients have been marginalized due to socio-economic background,…

Tags: Attachment

Healing the wounds of attachment and rebuilding self

This workshop will deepen the EMDR clinician’s understanding of how to work with attachment difficulties incorporating the precepts of the Adaptive Information Processing Model of EMDR. Based on AIP theory, when information is not moving or isn't…

Tags: Attachment

Healing trauma and creating secure attachments with EMDR

Tags: Attachment, Trauma

Integrative team treatment for attachment trauma in children: Family therapy and EMDR

Children traumatized in early attachment relationships by neglect, abuse, hospitalizations, surgeries, foster home placements, or orphanage care develop neurology designed by nature to keep them safe. When the trauma is over and the environment is…

Tags: Attachment, Children, Family Therapy, Integrative Team Treatment

Attachment problems in childhood and consequences for therapeutic relationships mirrored in transference and countertransference

Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which a main curative component is the nature of the therapeutic relationship. Clinicians must remember that this is the foundation of our efforts to help…

Tags: Attachment, Children, Countertransference, Transference

Te veo, te siento, te conozco: La terapia EMDR, el apego y la mentalización You see, I feel, you know: EMDR therapy, attachment and mentalization

Tags: Attachment, Stabilization

Il trattamento breve dei disturbi puerperali mediante assessment specifico del trauma e applicazione del protocollo EMDR The brief treatment of puerperal disorders through assessment of specific trauma e applicazione del protocollo EMDR trauma and application of the EMDR protocol

Il presente contributo nasce dall’esperienza maturata in psicoterapia con soggetti affetti da depressione post-partum (DPN) e dall’assunto teorico secondo il quale la condizione di neomaternità e la conseguente naturale disposizione all’accudimento…

Tags: Assessment, Attachment, Conflict Handling, Postpartum Depression

EMDR and parenting: A clinical case

The theory of attachment underlines how traumatic experiences from the parent's past—when stored in a dysfunctional way—can be reactivated in the parent caregiving system, emerging from an internal working model (IWM) of attachment that holds the…

Tags: Attachment, Parenting, Trauma

The unforgiven: EMDR, ego state therapy and attachment in eating disorder treatment

EMDR, ego state therapy, attachment repair and forgiveness in the treatment of eating disorders explores the presence of dissociation in clients with eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa. The approach employs an EMDR phase model, expanding…

Tags: Attachment, Eating Disorders, Ego State Therapy

Easy attachment resourcing for EMDR

Easy Attachment Resourcing for EMDR presents several user-friendly ego-state-based resources, fitted to the phases and prongs, for enhancing attachment skills, self-soothing, and maintaining dual attention during processing. Preparation phases: find…

Tags: Attachment, Attachment Resourcing, Resourcing

Working with trauma in a prison setting

The following chapter draws on the authors' experience of working with young people (children and adolescents) with offending histories within community youth offending teams, secure children's homes and a young offenders institution (YOI). While the…

Tags: Attachment, Behavior, Brain Development, Children and Adolescents, Community Youth Offending Team, Development, Diagnosis, Ethics, Evolution, Interventions, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prisons, PTSD, Secure Children's Home, Symptoms, Trauma, Young Offenders Institutions

Attachment theory and research – Core concepts and empirical evidence

Mike will open the workshop by outlining the core concepts of attachment theory and discuss the empirical evidence supporting these. He will discuss the development of attachment theory referring to the neurobiology of secure attachment and…

Tags: Attachment, Empirical Evidence, Research, Trauma

Attachment-focused EMDR: Healing relational trauma

Integrating the latest in attachment theory and research into the use of EMDR. One of the hottest theoretical areas in psychotherapy—attachment—is combined with the use of EMDR to teach therapists a new way of healing clients with relational trauma…

Tags: Attachment

Specialty topics on using EMDR with children

“Specialty Topics on Using EMDR With Children“ is written for therapists who have learned the basic eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) protocol and are interested in expanding their skills in using EMDR in individual treatment with…

Tags: Attachment, Children, EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Trauma

Treating dissociation, ritual abuse and mind control from an attachment perspective

Using EMDR as an integrative therapeutic approach from an attachment and developmental trauma lens, this presentation will give practical strategies for treating clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) symptoms who have experienced Ritual…

Tags: Attachment, Dissociation, Mind Control, Ritual Abuse

Attachment at the societal level: Reprocessing internalized stigma and oppression

Attachment challenges also occur at the societal level as individuals seek to integrate in a meaningful way into social groups and the larger society. An added dimension of clinical work awakens with a cultural context lens that understands social…

Tags: Attachment, Internalized Stigma, Oppression

The impact of complex PTSD and attachment issues on personal health: An EMDR treatment approach

EMDR treatment will be presented as a successful model for dealing with the attachment deficits and health problems of trauma survivors. The development of an EMDR Treatment Plan to treat both health and attachment problems with a focus on a Health…

Tags: Attachment, C-PTSD, Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex PTSD, Personal Health

EMDR-family therapy integrative team approach for healing attachment trauma in children

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…

Tags: Attachment, Children, Family Therapy Intergrative Approach

Attachment-focused EMDR a client-centered therapy for healing childhood trauma and neglect

Dr. Parnell presents the five basic principles of Attachment-Focused EMDR and how they are implemented in the treatment of traumatized clients with attachment wounds"--Container

Tags: Attachment, Container

Trauma, attachment, dissociation and EMDR

Dr. Ross will present data on the links between trauma, dissociation and attachment. He will then describe the problem of attachment to the perpetrator, one of the core principles of his Trauma Model Therapy. He will go on from there to explain why…

Tags: Attachment, Dissociation, Plenary, Trauma

Treatment of attachment trauma and the dissociative sequelae: A developmentally grounded approach to case conceptualization with EMDR

When earliest relationships are traumatic, attachment injuries can significantly change the trajectory of one’s life. Bonding and attachment are neurobiologically driven survival mechanisms; but when irreconcilable conflict exists within the innate…

Tags: Attachment, Case Conceptualization, Dissociation

Targeting confusion to facilitate trauma resolution and promote attachment

This presentation will help clinicians recognize and address the confusing or inexplicable aspects of trauma as they follow standard EMDR protocol. Children who experienced complex trauma, adults who had childhood trauma and individuals who have had…

Tags: Attachment, Confusion

EMDR in the military: Trauma, attachment and families

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…

Tags: Attachment, Family, Military, Trauma

Moment-to-moment decision-making: Broadening the possibilities

When working with attachment trauma, it is more than reprocessing the negative experience; it’s about making the necessary repairs that address the deficits in the client’s development. So, how do you decide when to offer a cognitive interweave to…

Tags: Attachment, Decision-Making

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

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…

Tags: Attachment, Gender Violence

Como puede la combinacion entre el EMDR y la imaginacion tartar casos con sept complejo, problemas de apego y disociacion? How can EMDR and imagination combined, treat cases with complex PTSD, attachment and dissociative symptoms?

ABSTRACT: La integración del EMDR con el uso de la imaginación (See Far CBT, Lahad) como un abordaje para el tratamiento de SEPT Complejo. El uso de la imaginación con cartas terapéuticas dentro de la Realidad Fantástica es una estrategia poderosa…

Tags: Attachment, Dissociation, Poster

Apego y disociacion, El papel de los opioides endógenos Attachment and dissociation: The role of endogenous opioids

Endogenous opiates play a major role in attachment and they are also involved in dissociative processes and somatoform dissociation. The presentation discusses the adjunctive use of opoid antagonists both during stabilization and trauma processing…

Tags: Attachment, Dissociation, Endogenous Opioid

Attachment repair and temporal integration: EMDR for early trauma

Progress in neuroscience reveals that attachment learning, affect dysregulation, and traumatic experience are predominantly held in the right hemisphere (Schore, 2009). Therapists can access trauma and neglect held in the right hemisphere using EMDR,…

Tags: Attachment, Early Trauma, Temporal Integration

Science & practice: Attachment, dissociation and EMDR

EMDR is a powerful integrative psychotherapeutic intervention. However, in the case of disrupted attachment and significant dissociative symptoms EMDR can be destabilizing if used early on in treatment. That is, fragmentation of self and dissociative…

Tags: Attachment, Dissociation

EMDR e attaccamento EMDR and attachment

Secondo Bowlby, le esperienze precoci del bambino con le proprie figure di attaccamento determinano rappresentazioni mentali - denominate Modelli Operativi Interni della relazione - che regolano aspetti centrali dello sviluppo come la regolazione…

Tags: Attachment

Attachment, psychotherapy and EMDR Apego, psicopatología y EMDR

The defense system (freezing-‐fight-‐flight-‐feigned death), that is set into motion in every individual by the exposure to any event that threatens life or bodily integrity in the self or in significant others, is terminated after the event is…

Tags: Attachment, Keynote

Integrating an attachment repair orientation into EMDR treatment for clients with relational trauma EMDR centrado en el apego: Curar el trauma relacional

Attachment-‐focused EMDR is a new model of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) developed over a period of nineteen years by psychologist and EMDR trainer Dr. Laurel Parnell that adapts this powerful and effective trauma therapy to…

Tags: Attachment, Relational Trauma

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