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Effectively managing the closure and re-evaluation phase with parents
Popcorn Night is a term that was coined to assist caregivers in providing a calm and comfortable night for their child following a desensitization session. Following the reprocessing of a memory, the therapist works with the caregivers to manage the…
"Splatting" out the trauma with movement in EMDR processing
This chapter presents a play-based intervention that addresses the challenge of providing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) to early elementary school–aged boys. Their energy level, restlessness, and need to engage physically can…
Using the superhero shuffle for bilateral stimulation in EMDR with children
The Superhero Shuffle is a playful intervention that is designed to work best with high-energy children and children who have low tolerance for exposure to trauma or engaging in the bilateral eye movements of eye movement desensitization and…
The pocket smock as a preparation phase resource
This chapter proposes the Pocket Smock as a Phase 2 intervention to facilitate the preparation process. The Pocket Smock is designed to be a visible and even tangible location to consolidate the child's acquired self-regulation resources. While it…
Using trauma-sensitive yoga and embodied play therapy for stabilization and resourcing
Play therapy allows children to develop a rich variety of resources for complex trauma. Making a safe therapeutic space for the activation and the adaptive processing of traumatic memories has been a central theme in play therapy literature.…
Taking a play-based trauma history
Finding ways to complete Phase 1 of the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing protocol, history and treatment planning, presents unique challenges when working with children. The therapist often has many other sources of information about the…
Building a calm/safe place in the play therapy room
When children are exposed to toxic environments for many years of their childhood, they may have a difficult time even imagining a calm or safe place. Fort Tent has been adapted from Francine Shapiro's Calm Place exercise. This adaptation is designed…
Understanding and responding to dissociation in children with play-based approaches
A journey into learning about dissociation usually begins with a therapist being unsuccessful in the treatment of traumatized children. An eye movement and desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) clinician starts to seek information on how to help…
Playful and creative approaches to EMDR therapy with Latinx children
This chapter serves as a call to include interventions that acknowledge, value, and celebrate the culture of children and their families. The Latinx population is growing in the United States, and it is imperative that therapists provide culturally…
EMDR and creative arts therapy: How creative arts therapies can extend the reach of EMDR with complex clients
The utilization of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy alone, as Francine Shapiro has discussed, presents challenges when working with children, particularly with complex relational trauma. Limits for the effectiveness of…
Treating trauma in young children: Integrating EMDR, child-centered play therapy, and developmental play therapy
This chapter reviews how clinicians can combine play therapy skills with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy to treat young children who have experienced trauma. It presents a descriptive approach to integrating play therapy…
Resource wand for bilateral stimulation in EMDR therapy
Resource Wand is an intervention that is designed to give added support to a child during the reprocessing of a memory that has the potential for overwhelming or flooding. It is used to manage levels of arousal and affect in Phase 4 of eye movement…
Synergetic play therapy combined with EMDR therapy
This chapter addresses combining synergetic play therapy (SPT) with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) while maintaining fidelity to both therapies. Both SPT and EMDR are informed by the adaptive information processing (AIP) model…
Room for everyone: EMDR and family-based play therapy in the sand tray
In the three decades since Francine Shapiro introduced the model, adaptive information processing (AIP) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) have provided mental health clinicians with a method for conceptualizing clients'…
TraumaPlay and EMDR: Integration and nuance in holding hard stories
TraumaPlay is a flexible, sequential, play therapy model designed for treating traumatized and attachment-disturbed children and teens. An integration of TraumaPlay and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) functions as a one–two power…
Using both EMDR and prescriptive play therapy in adaptive processing: Rationale and essential considerations for integration
Despite the potential benefits, children are often very reluctant to participate in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Children may accomplish some digestion of traumatic experiences in play therapy, a naturalistic setting…
The “lemon squeezies” metaphor for EMDR processing with children
This chapter provides a brief description about the intervention that was designed to support and assist children and adolescents in developing negative cognition and positive cognition in the assessment, desensitization, and installation phases…
EMDR with children in the play therapy room: An integrated approach
Play is central in the development of the child's identity and the process of self-definition. In the safety of the parent—child relationship, play emerges as a powerful self-shaping force. Through play, infants and children begin to experience…
EMDR-infused theraplay®
This chapter demonstrates how the gains acquired through Theraplay® can be leveraged for healing by infusing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) into Theraplay treatment. Infusion in the preparation phase will be the primary focus;…
Easy EMDR for children and parents
Child and Adult Mental Health issues around the world are growing rapidly, we are experiencing a global mental health crisis, services are overburdened or non-existent. EASY EMDR is a simple affordable purposely low-priced HOME USE solution as part…
EMDR workbook for children & adults: A complete guide to treating your trauma
Trauma is an inevitable aspect of life. You or anyone you care about has almost certainly been through trauma, whether it was "big-T" trauma like mental, physical, or sexual assault, or "little-t" trauma like divorce, loss of employment, terrible…