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Can eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing improve psychological recovery following COVID-19 related critical illness? the CovEMERALD feasibility trial

ver 200,000 patients survive an intensive care admission each year in the United Kingdom (UK). For patients, survival is frequently beset by a range of chronic disabilities. Approximately 50% must navigate an often complex convalescence, while…

Trauma-focused therapy in early intervention for psychosis settings: Results of a feasibility RCT of 'EMDR for psychosis'

Trauma is particularly prevalent amongst Early Intervention (EI) patients and is associated with adverse clinical and prognostic outcomes. To determine the feasibility of a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an 'EMDR for psychosis'…

Multicenter randomized controlled trial on the provision of the EMDR-PRECI to female minors victims of sexual and/or physical violence and related PTSD

This longitudinal multicenter randomized controlled trial has three objectives 1) to evaluate the EMDR-PRECI in the remission of the PTSD Diagnosis on female minors who were victims of sexual and/or physical violence compared to treatment as usual…

Tags: Anxiety, Depression, EMDR-PRECI, Female, Female Minor, Minors, Physical Violence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Sexual Violence

Traumatic blood contact between mother and daughter: Condition for anorexia of the female adolescent

My new theory is that Anorexia of the Female Adolescent, in addition to the girl’s psychological causes, needs a biological condition: “Different mother/daughter blood types (0, A, B, AB) and traumatic contact between the two blood types during…

Tags: Adolescents, Anorexia, Blood Contact, Female

"Conditio sine qua non", as ground of anorexia of the female adolescent: Different blood types of mother and daughter with traumatic blood contact between the two during pregnancy and/or birth. It is possible EMDR intervention

Background: Anorexia of the Female Adolescent is the most important and most dangerous kind of anorexia. This anorexia manifests itself precisely during the phase of a young woman's blossoming femininity and fertility. With the menarche begins the…

Tags: Adolescents, Anorexia, Birth, Blood Type, Female, Pregnancy, Traumatic Blood Contact

For many female vets, healing from trauma starts with the eyes

There are a host of methods to treat such veterans, like cognitive processing therapy and exposure therapy. These psychotherapies, while medically sound, can require a patient be in treatment for months, if not years. Contrast that with the use of a…

Tags: Female, Trauma, Veterans

Dealing with anger issues and emotional difficulties in institutionalized orphan girls using EMDR group protocol

This study reflects on efficacy of EMDR group protocol as an intervention to deal with anger issues and other emotional difficulties of resident girls of an orphanage in India. Dr Ignacio Jarero's Integrative Group Protocol (EMDR-IGTP) was used. The…

Tags: Anger, Female, Orphan, Poster

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment on female patients with somatic depression

Background: Unprocessed memories of negative life events or psychological trauma might be related to a high level of physical arousal and be stored as a variety of significant somatic symptoms, especially among patients with major depressive disorder…

Tags: Depression, Female, Research Symposium, Somatization

Effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on the sexual function of Iranian women with lifelong vaginismus

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a new treatment recommended for vaginismus. To investigate the effectiveness of EMDR in lifelong vaginismus (LLV), a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test and post-test design was conducted.…

Tags: Female, Sexual Dysfunction, Vaginismus

Primum non nocere (First do no harm): Symptom worsening and improvement in female assault victims after prolonged exposure for PTSD

Background: Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy is an efficacious treatment for PTSD; despite this, many clinicians do not utilize it due to concerns it could cause patient decompensation. Method: Data were pooled from four published well-controlled…

Tags: Assault Victim, Female, PE, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prolonged Exposure, PTSD

Eye movement desentization and reprocessing: A case study of a female adolescent sexual assault survivor

This study explores the use of Eye Movement Desensitisation (hereafter referred to as EMDR), a form of psychotherapy on a female adolescent sexual assault survivor. Adolescence as a developmental stage is characterised by specific issues, such as the…

Tags: Case Study, Female, Sexual Assault, Survivor

Healing the invisible wounds: A grant proposal for female veterans suffering from PTSD

The purpose of this project was to create a program, identify funding sources, and write a grant proposal to fund a mental health and family services program for female veterans suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at Veterans Village…

Tags: Female, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Veterans

Treatment providers' perceptions of treatment effectiveness with female juvenile sex offenders

This study investigated how treatment providers working with juvenile sexual offenders perceive treatment effectiveness of current treatment modalities for juvenile female sexual offenders. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics…

Tags: Female, Juveniles, Sex Offender, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Provider

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Evaluating its effectiveness in reducing trauma symptoms in adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse

Tags: Adult, Child Abuse, Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, Female, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Outcome

Intérêt de la psychothérapie « eye movement desensitization reprocessing » dans le cadre de la prise en charge de femmes victimes de viols conjugaux Benefits of "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" psychotherapy in the treatment of female victims of intimate partner rape

L’objectif de cette étude est de mettre en évidence à partir du suivi de six femmes victimes de viols par leur conjoint, les effets de la thérapie « eye movement desensitization reprocessing », notamment en ce qui concerne la réduction des symptômes…

Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Female, Marital Rape, Partner Rape, Victims, Women

Integrierte traumaassoziierte kurzzeittherapie für akuttraumatisierte (INTAKT)1 - Ergebnisse einer pilot-studie zur wirksamkeit von ressourcenorientierter behandlung in der gruppe und EMDR Integrated trauma associated short-term psychotherapy for acute traumatized patients (INTAKT ) - Results from a study including a small population (n=16) about the effectiveness of ressource-oriented treatment in groups in combination with EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)

Die INTAKT (Integrated traumaassociated kurzfristige Psychotherapie) eingeführt wurde, eine Intervention in einem "Ambulante Ressource-orientierten Gruppe" ARG für akute traumatisierten Patienten in Kombination mit EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization…

Tags: Adult, Behavior Therapy, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM, Female, Human, Imagination, Male, Psychotherapy, Psychotrauma, Treatment Outcome

Be borderline! A successful inpatients’ treatment program for (type II) traumatized female patients with PTSD/DES/BPD and the symptom of self-mutilation

Using therapeutic experiences from the USA (Herman, Putnam, Ross) and the Netherlands (Olthuis, van der Hart) Luise Reddemann (Bielefeld) and Ulrich Sachsse(Goettingen) developed an inpatients’ program for female and some male patients with symptoms,…

Tags: Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, DES, Female, Inpatient Treatment, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD, Self-Mutilation

Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of juggling therapy for anxiety disorder patients. Design and Method: Subjects were 17 female outpatients who met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders. Subjects were treated…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Female

Vajinismusun EMDR yöntemi ile tedavisi: İki olgu sunumu Treatment of vaginismus with EMDR: A report of two cases

Vajinismus kadının vajina kaslarındaki istemsiz kasılmalar nedeniyle hiçbir şekilde cinsel ilişkinin gerçekleşemediği bir cinsel işlev bozukluğudur. Vajinismus için temel tanı kriteri vajinanın dış üçte birindeki kaslarda koitusu engelleyecek,…

Tags: Adult, Desensitization, Female, Humans, Psychologic, Sexual Behavior, Vaginismus, Wounds and Injuries

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the addiction continuing care process: Case study of a cross-addicted female

Research Purposes: •To demonstrate the impact of EMDR on a cross-addicted female’s overall treatment and initial recovery experience •To explore the case’s lived experience with EMDR as part of her treatment and early recovery process as reflected…

Tags: Addiction, Case Study, Cross Addiction, Female, Poster, Research

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

The role of eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the interdisciplinary treatment of low sexual desire women

Low sexual desire disorder is the most common sexual dysfunction in women. There is no standard definition for "normal" sexual desire and there are many factors that can influence it, hence, low desire can be one of the more difficult sexual…

Tags: Female, Inhibited Sexual Desire, Low Sexual Desire, Sexual Abuse

공포 영화 장면 노출 후 수평적 안구 운동이 심박수 변이도에 미치는 영향 Effect of horizontal eye movements on the heart rate variability after exposure to a fear-inducing film clip

목적 : 안구 운동 둔감에서 안구 운동의 역할과 재 처리 (EMDR)에 대한 지속적인 논쟁이 있었다. 이 연구는 공포 자극에 노출 된 후 수평 안구 운동의 가능한 자율 효과를 조사 하였다. 방법 : 쉰이 건강한 성인 여성은 무작위로 5 분 공포 유도 필름 클립을 시청 후 안구 운동 또는 눈을 고정 그룹에 할당되었다. ECG는 클립 및 치료를 시청 한 후, 휴지 상태 동안 기록 하였다. 심박수의 분광 분석을 수행 하였다. 변수가 정규 분포의…

Tags: Autonomic Nervous System, Eye Movements, Fear, Female, Film Clip, Heart Rate Variability, Horitzontal, Korean

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

Response to Lipke's comment

Lipke's criticisms of the experiment reported by Bates and colleagues are without merit. Data from the experiment show either that the procedure was sound or that the clinical measurement reported by eye-movement densitization (EMD) therapists is…

Tags: EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Female, Letter, Phobias, Reply, Spider Phobia

Innovative therapies for trauma related disorders: TARGET, TREM, and EMDR

In this chapter, Marvasti and Colt explore the victims' response to trauma and examine nontraditional treatment models for psychological trauma. The TARGET model (Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy) of treatment focuses on current…

Tags: Emotional Trauma, Empowerment, Female, Group Education and Therapy, Group Psychotherapy, Human Females, Models, Nontraditional Treatment Model, Psychological Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Symptoms, Target, Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy, Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model, Treatment, TREM, Victimization, Victims

眼球運動による脱感作と再処理法(EMDR)の急性ストレス障害(ASD)を示した阪神淡路大震災被災者への適用 : ストレス障害に対するストレスの少ない治療法 Application of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) to ASD survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Treatment with less stress for stress disorder

市井雅哉眼球運動による脱感作と再処理法(EMDR)の急性ストレス障害(ASD)を示した阪神淡路大震災被災者への適用: ストレス障害に対するストレスの少ない治療法バイオフィードバック研究日本バイオフィードバック学会…

Tags: Acute Stress Disorder, ASD, Clinical Case Study, Clinical Trial, Earthquakes, Female, Natural Disaster Survivor, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Outcome

EMDR for women who experience traumatic events

Comments on an article by E. B. Foa and G. P. Street,"Women and Traumatic Events, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol 62(Suppl 17), 2001. Special issue: Understanding posttraumatic stress disorder, pp. 29-34 regarding psychotherapeutic interventions…

Tags: Female, Letter, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape

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

The EMDR integrative group treatment protocol: Application with child victims of a mass disaster

The EMDR Integrative Group Treatment protocol (EMDR-IGTP) has been used in different parts of the world since 1998 with both adults and children after natural or man-made disasters. This protocol combines the eight standard EMDR treatment phases with…

Tags: Children, Death of Parent, Explosion, Female, Group Psychotherapy, Group Treatment, Human-Provoked Disaster, Industrial Accidents, Latin American, Male, Mexican, Non-Randomized Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, School Age Children, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

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

It takes a village: Caring for a traumatized art student

One of the fascinating developments in mental health care in the last decade has been the appearance of specific psychotherapies for various psychiatric illnesses. Perhaps the best known of these is dialetical behavior therapy (DBT), pioneered by…

Tags: Borderline Personality Disorder, Case Study, Child Abuse, Cognitive Therapy, College Students, Drug Therapy, European American, Female, Incest, Individual Psychotherapy, Partial Hospitalization, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Young Adults

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

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

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

Treating traumatic memories: A case report on the eye movement desensitization procedure

There are at present three published papers on the eye movement desensitization procedure. This paper reports two successfully treated cases, one with traumatic memories of childhood sexual abuse, and the other based on memories of a terminally ill…

Tags: Case Study, Child Abuse, Death of Sibling, Female, Interpersonal Interaction, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Young Adults

Eye movement desensitization treatment of a child's nightmares: A case report

A new therapeutic method (eye movement desensitization), described in 1989 by Shapiro, was applied to the treatment of recurrent nightmares in a 10-year-old girl. The technique, in a single session, resulted in the complete remission of the…

Tags: Case Study, Female, Nightmare Disorder, School Age Children, Spaniards, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization: Three unusual cases

Three complex cases are presented to document further the broad applicability of eye movement desensitization (EMD) for PTSD. In the first subject this disorder was combined with panic attacks; in the second, sexual dysfunction was an additional…

Tags: Adult, Case Study, Child Abuse, EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Female, Incest, Male, Multiple Traumatic Events, Panic Disorder, Police Personnel, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Sexual Dysfunction, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Wounds and Injuries

Applying eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) to the treatment of traumatized children: Five case studies

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a recently developed psychotherapy method that appears to increase efficiency in treating traumatized psychological disturbance. Applications to child treatment were explored in five case…

Tags: Americans, Female, Hurricanes, Male, School Age Children, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of rape survivors

In the context of managed care, effective short-term treatment has become a priority for psychologists. This is particularly true for the recalcitrant symptoms of PTSD which are often associated with protracted treatment and disappointing…

Tags: Adult, Empirical Study, Female, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

The effect of varying the rate of the eye movements in eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) with battered women

The rapid saccades used in eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) have been reputed to be critical to its efficacy. To evaluate this hypothesis, the rate of the eye movements was varied in this study. Subjects included 27 battered women who…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Battery, Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, Female, Follow-up Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Spouse Abuse, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Outcome

EMDR treatment: Less than meets the eye

Examines EMDR and the experimental evidence surrounding it, which does not indicate that it is any more effective than other treatments for PTSD, despite its enthusiastic support.

Tags: Adult, Americans, Brief Psychotherapy, Child Abuse, Female, Longitudinal Study, Methodology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Randomized Controlled Trial, Rape, RCT, Self Efficacy, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A multiple baseline study

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) was developed in 1987 by Francine Shapiro, as a modality for relieving anxiety, traumatic memories, intrusive thoughts, and reprocessing negative self-beliefs to positive self-beliefs. One of the…

Tags: Adult, Empirical Study, Female, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Outcome

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Evaluating its effectiveness in reducing trauma symptoms in adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse

The purpose of the study was to evaluate, through the use of a randomized experimental design, the effectiveness of EMDR in reducing trauma symptoms in adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. No EMDR research to date has been exclusively…

Tags: Adult, Child Abuse, Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, Female, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Outcome

A comparison study of EMDR and exposure on posttraumatic stress disorder: A single-subject design

Exposure has been shown to be efficacious in the treatment of PTSD. Recent claims have been made regarding the comparative and perhaps even superior efficacy of EMDR in the treatment of PTSD.The comparative effectiveness was tested using two…

Tags: Adult, Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, Exposure Therapy, Female, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Effect of relaxation training alone and relaxation training paired with EMDR on incarcerated, battered women

Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten in the U.S. Many of these women meet the criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD. Some of them end up in prison. This study used a sample of 5 battered women, incarcerated in a Southern state prison, to test the efficacy…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Battery, Empirical Study, Female, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prison Inmate, PTSD, Relaxation Therapy, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Opmerkelijke veranderingen na één zitting met eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Een geval van angst voor misselijkheid en braken Noteworthy changes after one session with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A case of fear of nausea and vomiting

In deze bijdrage worden enkele principes van Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) beschreven. Met name het ‘reprocessing’ gedeelte van deze procedure wordt nader toegelicht, waaronder de selectie van negatieve en positieve cognities…

Tags: Adult, Case Study, Dutch, Female, Phobias

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