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An integrated grief-focused intervention after the death of a chief teacher

During the SARS outbreak in 2003, a chief middle school teacher in Beijing unfortunately died of the disease. After her death, her students and colleagues fell into a state of emotional and behavioral disturbance. We describe in this paper a…

Tags: China, Grief, Psychotrauma, Symposium

EMDR and the many faces of grief

Grief is never simple. The human condition forces us to face loss at many junctures of our life. For example, even major change can be perceived as some type of loss. Loss of security, loss of role or identity, and loss of face are other aspects…

Tags: Grief

Using EMDR in processing grief with children and families

Grief wears different faces and proceeds in varying paces for the different members of a family that share a loss. Participants will be able to: 1 ) define relevant issues and strategies for using EMDR with grieving children and their families; 2)…

Tags: Children, Family, Grief

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and treatment of grief

Tags: Grief

EMDR, grief and mourning

In the November, 1992 EMDR training, Dr. Shapiro stated that using EMDR in grief and mourning challenges the concept of how long mourning “should” last. This case example shows how EMDR has assisted in the process of mourning by dealing with some of…

Tags: Grief, Mourning

Protocol for the utilization of EMDR with grief and mourning

EMDR can be utilized within an overall framework for treatment of grief and mourning. Processes tat mourners go through to accommodate and assimilate the loss, and how EMDR can be utilized for each process, will be discussed. EMDR can also be…

Tags: Bereavement, Grief, Mourning, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor

Utilization of EMDR in the treatment of grief and mourning

Participants will: 1) understand and learn about the six processes of grief; 2) learn about the application of EMDR to grief; 3) learn about complications of grief recovery; and 4) learn how to utilize EMDR in resolving complications.

Tags: Bereavement, Complicated Grief, Grief, Mourning, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor

Utilization of EMDR in the treatment of grief and mourning

Participants will: 1) understand and learn about the six processes of grief; 2) learn about the application of EMDR to grief; 3) learn about complications to grief recovery; and 4) learn how to utilize EMDR in resolving complications.

Tags: Bereavement, Grief, Mourning, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor

Brief therapy inside out: EMDR - Working with grief

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has been used effectively with a wide range of trauma victims. In this videotape, EMDR founder Francine Shapiro demonstrates her treatment approach with a client struggling with the sudden loss of…

Tags: Brief Therapy, Grief, Loss

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

EMDR and mourning

This manual is based on presentations given by Dr. Spierings. Specific topics are covered, such as the definitions, phases and tasks of handling the normal mourning process. Also included are topics based on clinical indicators, high risk factors and…

Tags: Grief, Mourning

Case application of EMDR in trauma work

This article presents a case application applying Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in trauma work. An overview of the theoretical model will be presented, and examples from a hypothetical case will illustrate how this approach can…

Tags: Emotional Trauma, Empirical Study, Grief, Grief Work, Model, Nonclinical Case Study, Rapid Eye Movement, Stress Reaction, Terrorism, Trauma, World Trade Center

The use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of traumatic stress and complicated mourning: Psychological and behavioral outcomes

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the differential effects of treatment of a complex of symptomatology that includes grief, PTSD, anxiety, and self-esteem by comparing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Cognitive Therapy, Empirical Study, Follow-up Study, Grief, Non-Randomized Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Self Esteem, Social Casework, Survivor, Traumatic Grief, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A therapeutic tool for trauma and grief

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an integrative client-centered approach that is presently widely used in the treatment of trauma. Use of this method within a comprehensive treatment plan can significantly accelerate recovery…

Tags: Bereavement, Efficacy, Emotional Trauma, Grief, Guilt, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Trauma Contagion, Treatment Effectiveness

Utilization of EMDR in the treatment of grief and mourning

EMDR can be utilized within a comprehensive framework for the treatment of grief and mourning. EMDR can process the obstacles that can complicate the grief and mourning processes. This seems to facilitate the emergence of positive memories of the…

Tags: Bereavement, Clinical Case Study, Grief, Mourning, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor

EMDR with grief and mourning

The death of a loved one confronts people with particularly complicated challenges at a time of often unparalleled distress. This workshop will focus on integrating EMDR into the treatment of grief and mourning. Understanding grief and mourning in…

Tags: Bereavement, Grief, Mourning, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor

Protocol for the utilization of EMDR with grief and mourning

EMDR can be utilized within an overall framework for treatment of grief and mourning. Processes that mourners go through to accommodate and assimilate the loss, and how EMDR can be utilized for each process, will be discussed. EMDR can also be…

Tags: Bereavement, Children, Grief, Mourning, Murder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor

EMDR and traumatic grief: EMDR in the treatment of traumatic grief EMDR bei traumatischer trauer

The lecture deals with the six patterns of complicated grief (denied, postponed, chronic, twisted, traumatic, and somatised grief) and for each pattern the outlines of a treatment plan and applications of EMDR within this treatment plan will be…

Tags: Grief

EMDR zonder oogbewegingen is imaginaire confrontatie (EMDR (E + M) = IC) EMDR without eye movements is imaginary confrontation (EMDR - (E + M) = IC)

Drie jaar na een verkeersongeluk had de hoofdpersoon uit deze gevalsbeschrijving nog last van storende, intrusieve gedachten en beelden. De – succesvolle – behandeling bestond uit slechts één sessie van anderhalf uur, waarvan Imaginaire Confrontatie…

Tags: Grief, Imaginary Confrontation, Trauma

A Chinese way to use ‘safe place’ in grief work

Every culture has its special way to deal with grief. In Chinese culture which is collectivism-oriented, people deal with grief not only in a society context, but also have a lot of connection with the bereaved ones. We found that it is hard to help…

Tags: Chinese, Grief, Poster, Safe Place

Trauma in children and young people

Trauma might be described in terms of an event experienced, or the effects or consequences (symptoms) of the event. In the latter case, the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV-TR1 is the most quoted source for defining post-traumatic stress…

Tags: Bereavement, Children, Grief, Trauma

The application of EMDR to grief recovery

Participants will: 1)understand and learn more about the phases of grief; 2) learn about the application of EMDR to grief; 3) learn about complications to grief recovery; and 4) learn how to utilize EMDR in resolving complications.

Tags: Grief, Grief Recovery

Protocol for excessive grief

This protocol is to be used when there is a high level of suffering, self-denigration, and lack of remediation over time concerning the loss of a loved one. EMDR does not eliminate healthy appropriate emotions, including grief. It allows clients to…

Tags: Grief, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique

EMDR and combined techniques for complicated grief and mourning

Tags: Grief, Mourning

Utilization of EMDR with grief and mourning

EMDR is a treatment methodology that can be useful in the mourning process. Utilizing Theresa Rando’s framework, a protocol will be presented describing how EMDR can be applied through the mourning process. REMDR does not shorten the phases of…

Tags: Grief, Mourning, Single Trauma, Symposium

Application of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on severe posttraumatic stress disorder following a single traumatic event in elderly psychiatric patients

Single traumatic events can lead to severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with serious effects on some and psyche as well as on social functioning. Often our focus in diagnostics is limited on obvious traumatic experiences according to the…

Tags: Elderly, Grief, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Single Trauma, Symposium

EMDR and bereavement

The use of EMDR to facilitate the healthy and complicated mourning process; how EMDR can be combined with traditional approaches, such as creative work.

Tags: Bereavement, Complicated Grief, Grief

EMDR and mourning

This presentation consists of the following two parts: I. The normal mourning process: Defintions, phases, mourning tasks and characteristics General treatment principles, EMDR and other treatment techniques Therapeutic attitude and your own grief…

Tags: Complicated Grief, Grief, Mourning, Protocol

EMDR and mourning

Tags: Grief, Mourning

El duelo, la familia, el trauma y el EMDR: Analisis de un caso clínco Grief, the family, trauma and EMDR: Analysis of a clinical case

El objetivo de este articulo es mostrar como el acercamiento terapéutico del EMDR puede integrarse en la terapia familiar y narrative favoreciendo y potenciando su poder para restablecer el proceso de duelo. Para ello presentamos el análisis de una…

Tags: Family, Grief, Narrative Therapy, Trauma

EMDR dans les cas de deuil et de dépression EMDR in bereavement and depression

Le deuil et la dépression sont des expériences de vie qui présentent un défi pour les mécanismes d’adaptation et remettent en question les états d’équilibre déjà établis. Les liens qui deviennent de plus en plus évidents entre ces états expérientiels…

Tags: Bereavement, Depression, Grief

Clinically significant trauma: Insights from the adaptive information processing model on grief and loss

The adaptive information processing (AIP) model, the theoretical model developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro to explain why psychopathology develops and why EMDR works to resolve it, can often be usefully applied for case conceptualization by non-EMDR…

Tags: Grief, Loss

Emotionality of loss-related memories is reduced after recall plus eye movements but not after recall plus music or recall only

Numerous studies have shown that eye movements during recall of negative memories reduce their emotionality. We investigated whether these findings can be extended specifically to negative memories of loss. Sixty undergraduate students participated…

Tags: Eye Movements, Grief, Loss, Mechanism of Action, Relaxation, Working Memory

EMDR in the treatment for post-traumatic stress after stillbirth: How can we help grieving mothers?

Objective: Despite advances in obstetric and neonatal care, many parents will experience the stillborn birth or death of a infant. Stillbirth is a devastating experience for women, and sometimes leads to depression, anxiety, traumatic grief and…

Tags: Grief, Mothers, Poster, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stillbirth

L’uso dell’ EMDR nel trattamento del dolore, del lutto e del dolore traumatico The utilization of EMDR in the treatment of grief, mourning and traumatic grief

Il dolore è uno di reazione ad una perdita e lutto è l'assimilazione e la sistemazione della perdita. Trauma può disabilitare la possibilità di far fronte, mettere in pericolo il funzionamento, compromettere la capacità di adattarsi, e aggiungere in…

Tags: Grief, Mourning, Traumatic Grief

Casus 23 – Op leeftijd: Een 70+-dame met gestagneerde rouw en een beroerte in de voorgeschiedenis Case 23 - Elderly: A 70 + lady with complicated mourning and a stroke in her medical history

Mevrouw Akersloot is een vrouw van in de zeventig. Zij werd verwezen door haar neuroloog, in verband met slaapproblemen en irrationele angsten. De klachten hielden verband met traumatische gebeurtenissen. In 2004 was zij opgenomen op de afdeling…

Tags: Complicated Grief, Elderly, Grief, Old Age, Stroke

EMDR y duelo: Conceptualización, planificación y procedimientos del tratamiento EMDR and grief: Conceptualization, planning and procedures treatment

Objetivos de aprendizaje del trabajo: - Revisar la conceptualización de Duelo para EMDR - Identificar los blancos sobre los que planificar los procedimientos, especialmente en TEPT complejo - Ampliar recursos en los tratamientos de duelo, en sus dos…

Tags: Grief

Protocol for excessive grief

“Protocol for Excessive Grief“ is excerpted from Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Basics and Special Situations illustrating a scripted protocol from one of Francine Shapiro's 6 basic protocols. “Scripting“…

Tags: Death, Grief, Intrusive Image, Scripted Protocol, Unresolved Loss

EMDR with grief: Reflections on Ginny Sprang’s 2001 study

“Translating Research Into Practice” is a new regular journal feature in which clinicians share clinical case examples that support, elaborate, or illustrate the results of a specific research study. Each column begins with the abstract of that…

Tags: Bridging Research, Grief, Mourning, Practice

Treatment of grief and mourning through EMDR: Conceptual considerations and clinical guidelines

Introduction: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an empirically-supported psychotherapeutic approach for treating trauma, which is also applicable to a wide range of other experientially-based clinical complaints. It is…

Tags: Clinical Guidelines, Grief, Mourning

El EMRD aplicado al trastorno de duelo patológico. Presentación de un caso EMDR applied to pathological grief disorder. Case report

La pérdida de un ser querido es un evento de gran impacto emocional que afectando a todo el sistema familiar, puede ser muy diferente en el modo en que cada uno de sus miembros perciba, interprete, afronte y se adapte a la nueva situación tras la…

Tags: Bereavement, Case Study, Grief, Symposium

EMDR and combined techniques in the treatment of (complicated) mourning

Working with mourning clients can be difficult. To face the irrevocability of loss and to stand helpless and empty-handed as a therapist is a heavy burden. Sometimes it seems there is nothing we can do to help our clients. Yet there are many ways in…

Tags: Grief, Mourning, Resourcing, Stabilization

L'EMDR avec le chagrin: Réflexions sur l'étude de 2001 de Ginny Sprang EMDR with grief: Reflections on Ginny Sprang’s 2001 study

“Traduire la recherche en pratique” constitue une nouvelle rubrique régulière du journal dans laquelle des cliniciens font part d’exemples de cas cliniques qui soutiennent, exposent en détail ou illustrent les résultats d’une étude de recherche…

Tags: Bridging Research, Grief, Mourning, Practice

Utilization of EMDR with traumatic bereavement

This presentation will discuss grief and bereavement, the processes the mourner has to go through for adaptive assimilation and accommodation of the loss, and how Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be integrated into an overall…

Tags: Bereavement, Grief, Treatment

Using compassionate mind training as a resource in EMDR: A case study

This case study examines the contribution of compassionate mind training (CMT) when used as a resource in the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment of a 58-year-old man, who presented after a recent trauma with psychological…

Tags: Compassionate Mind Training, Grief, Medically Unexplained Symptom, Shame, Somatization

EMDR for mourning

‘EMDR and combined techniques in the treatment of (complicated) mourning’ Working with mourning clients can be difficult: to face the irrevocability of loss and to stand helpless and empty-handed as a therapist is a heavy burden. Sometimes it seems…

Tags: Bereavement, Grief, Mourning

Evaluating the efficacy of Eye movement desensitisation reprocessing (EMDR) with grieving Individuals: A randomised control trial

This review begins by placing grief that relates to the loss of someone important to us, within the context of an almost universal experience. It acknowledges the impact of grief as being costly to both the individual’s well-being and the community…

Tags: Grief, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT

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