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An integrative literature review concerning the treatment of breast cancer patients through eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

As remarkable as breast cancer killing a record 190,000 individuals in 2001 is the modern phenomenon of increased survival. With a relative five-year survival rate of 86% after diagnosis and a "long-term" (10-year) survival rate of 76%, the issue of…

Tags: Breast Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Psychopathology and psychological problems in patients with burn scars: Epidemiology and management

Burn injury is often a devastating event with long-term physical and psychosocial effects. Burn scars after deep dermal injury are cosmetically disfiguring and force the scarred person to deal with an alteration in body appearance. In addition, the…

Tags: Burns, Comorbidity, Epidemiology, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Predisposition, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment

The psychobiology of traumatic memory: Clinical implications of neuro imaging studies

Whereas most patients with PTSD construct a narrative of their trauma over time, it is a characteristic of PTSD that sensory elements of the trauma itself continue to intrude as flashbacks and nightmares, altered states of consciousness in which the…

Tags: Brain Imaging, Dissociative Amnesia, Etiology, Literature Review, Neuroanatomy, Neuroendocrinology, Psychobiology, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Power therapies and possible threats to the science of psychology and psychiatry

Objective: Advocates of new therapies frequently make bold claims regarding therapeutic effectiveness, particularly in response to disorders which have been traditionally treatment-refractory. This paper reviews a collection of new therapies…

Tags: Commentary, Energy Psychotherapy, Literature Review, Neurolinguistic Programming, NLP, Psychotherapeutic Processes, TFT, Thought Field Therapy, TIR, Traumatic Incident Reduction, Treatment Effectiveness

Specific and nonspecific treatment factors in the experimental analysis of behavioral treatment efficacy

Interest in the empirical demonstration of the clinical efficacy of psychosocial treatments has been rekindled by societal concerns over accountability and cost-effectiveness in the delivery of mental health services. Behavior therapy has had a long…

Tags: Behavior Therapy, Literature Review, Methodology, Specific and Nonspecific Treatment Factor

Efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Implications for behavior therapy

The commitment of behavior therapy to empiricism has led it to a prominent position in the development of validated methods of treatment. The recent development and rapid expansion of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a treatment…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Therapy, Depressive Disorder, Drug Therapy, Health Care Utilization, Literature Review, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Power therapies: Evidence versus emotion: A reply to Rosen, Lohr, McNally and Herbert

Rosen, Lohr, McNally and Herberts (1998) arguments directed at the so-called Power Therapies and, in particular, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are examined. It is suggested that their paper does not adequately review the…

Tags: Letter, Literature Review, Outcome Research, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Power Therapies, Professional Criticism, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitisation treatment utilises the positive visceral element of the investigatory reflex to inhibit the memories of post-traumatic stress disorder: A theoretical analysis

Background: Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) has attracted controversy and has led to publications covering a wide range of psychological problems treated by EMDR, in particular, PTSD. There is growing clinical evidence of the…

Tags: Conditioned Emotional Response, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

A review of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Research findings and implications for counselors

The last 6 years have seen the emergence of a new therapeutic technique, most often used to treat symptoms of PTSD, called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). A number of uncontrolled case studies followed the initial studies of…

Tags: Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

New developments in cognitive-behavior therapy

The purpose of this review is to highlight new developments in cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) that have occurred during the past year [including two relating to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for the treatment of PTSD]. It is…

Tags: Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Managing acute stress response to major trauma

In this article, the authors review the current empiric literature on early interventions. Findings on the effects, course, help-seeking, and recovery from disasters are first reviewed, with recommendations given that are pertinent to intervention…

Tags: CISD, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Effects, Literature Review, Negative Research Needs Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Debriefing, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor, Therapeutic Reactions, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A critical review

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a new clinical treatment shown to be effective for victims of trauma. EMDR is a time efficient, comprehensive methodology backed by positive, controlled research, for the treatment of the…

Tags: Emotional Trauma, Literature Review, Methodology, Theories

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder and other psychological traumas: A decade of research in review

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a relatively new complex treatment method that incorporates salient aspects of many of the major therapeutic modalities as a treatment for PTSD and other psychological trauma in a civilian…

Tags: Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Outcome

The effect of EMDR on the pathophysiology of PTSD

The process of understanding PTSD has been a long and difficult one. It is safe to say our understanding of this disorder is incomplete, and our exploration into its pathophysiology is fairly recent. As with any disorder of the brain, the…

Tags: Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Psychological treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder: An overview

There is a growing research literature on the psychological treatment of PTSD. This paper provides an overview and an evaluation of this research. The focus is mainly on cognitive-behavioural interventions, as they are the most widely studied and…

Tags: Cognitive Therapy, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: An analysis of specific versus nonspecific treatment factors

Incremental validity and incremental efficacy have become important issues in the evaluation of psychological assessment and intervention procedures. Incremental validity in assessment is that shown by novel measures over and above established ones.…

Tags: Literature Review, Methodology, Treatment Effectiveness

Traumatic memories, eye movements, phobia, and panic: A critical note on the proliferation of EMDR

In the past years, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has become increasingly popular as a treatment method for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The current article critically evaluates three recurring assumptions in EMDR…

Tags: Literature Review, Panic Disorders, Phobias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Research Needs, Stressors, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Does EMDR work? And if so, why?: A critical review of controlled outcome and dismantling research

Research on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) was reviewed to answer the questions Does EMDR work? and If so, Why? This first question was further subdivided on the basis of the control group: (a) no-treatment (or wait list…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Relaxation Therapy, Treatment Effectiveness

The empirical status of the clinical application of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

The published reports of the clinical application of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) are reviewed in terms of empirical validity. Case studies, single-subject experiments and group design experiments on clinical problems are…

Tags: Literature Review, Methodology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Evaluation of controlled PTSD research

The complete controlled PTSD research on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is placed within the context of other methods used in the treatment of PTSD. A number of studies are presented that support EMDR as an empirically validated…

Tags: Adult, Arousal, European American, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

EMDR 12 years after its introduction: Past and future research

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) was one of the first treatments of PTSD to be evaluated in controlled research and has to date been empirically supported by 13 such studies. This article reviews the historical context and…

Tags: Cognitive Processes, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Research Needs

Is EMDR an exposure therapy? A review of trauma protocols

This article presents the well established theoretical base and clinical practice of exposure therapy for trauma. Necessary requirements for positive treatment results and contraindicated procedures are reviewed. EMDR is contrasted with these…

Tags: Exposure Therapy, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Protocols, PTSD, Trauma

Clinical implications and recommendations arising from EMDR research findings

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a treatment approach found to be efficacious for trauma-related disorders. This article provides an overview of the EMDR treatment process and briefly describes treatment components. It reviews…

Tags: C-PTSD, Clinical Implication, Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex PTSD, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Research, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment

The information gap in the EMDR controversy

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a recently developed treatment for traumatic memories. The literature on EMDR is characterized by widely contrasting results and interpretations of findings. The author traces this variation to…

Tags: Literature Review, Professional Training, Treatment Effectiveness

Hjelper terapi for traumatiserte mennesker? Does trauma therapy help?

Denne artikkelen beskriver de psykologiske og fysiske konsekvenser av traumer. Det vurderinger deretter ulike terapeutiske tiltak for posttraumatisk stresslidelse (PTSD). Metoder basert på atferds-og kognitive strategier synes mest effektive i…

Tags: Literature Review, Physical Consequence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Consequence, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Therapeutic Intervention, Therapeutic Processes, Trauma Therapy

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Tags: Literature Review, Practice Guidelines, Treatment Effectiveness

Treatment of specific phobias with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Protocol, empirical status, and conceptual issues

This paper considers the current empirical status of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as a treatment method for specific phobias, along with some conceptual and practical issues in relation to its use. Both uncontrolled and…

Tags: Literature Review, Phobias, Review, Treatment Effectiveness

A systematic research synthesis of EMDR studies: Implementation of the platinum standard

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychological treatment method used primarily for people who have experienced trauma. This article provides a systematic research synthesis of EMDR studies targeting trauma symptomatology…

Tags: Criticism, Literature Review, Methodology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Professional, PTSD, Review, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

A methodological critique of the current status of eye movement desensitization (EMD)

Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) has been recently advocated as a rapid treatment for the elimination of traumatic memories responsible for the maintenance of a number of anxiety disorders and their clinical correlates. Despite a limited conceptual…

Tags: EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Literature Review, Methodology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, PTSD Assessment Instrument, Research Needs, Review

The relationship between efficacy and methodology in studies investigating EMDR treatment of PTSD

The controlled treatment outcome studies that examined the efficacy of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of PTSD have yielded a range of results, with the efficacy of EMDR varying across studies. The current study…

Tags: Literature Review, Meta-Analysis, Methodology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

A critical evaluation of current views regarding eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Clarifying points of confusion

EMDR is an active psychological treatment for PTSD that has received widely divergent reactions from the scientific and professional community. This article examines points of confusion in the published literature on EMDR, including the theoretical,…

Tags: Literature Review, Methodology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Professional Criticism, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and the anxiety disorders: Clinical and research implications of an integrated psychotherapy treatment

Four recent, independent, rigorously controlled studies of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) have reported that 84 to 100% of single-trauma victims no longer maintain the posttraumatic stress disorder diagnosis after the equivalent…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Literature Review, Methodology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Research Needs

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Information processing in the treatment of trauma

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an efficacious and efficient treatment for PTSD. This article provides a brief overview of the findings of 20 controlled-outcome studies and describes Shapiro's Adaptive Information Processing…

Tags: Clinical Case Study, Cognitive Processes, Empirical Study, Information Processing, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Treatment Process

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in eating disorders: Caution against premature acceptance

Objective: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been claimed effective in the treatment of a wide variety of psychiatric disorders, including eating disorders. An informal survey suggests that EMDR is now widely offered to…

Tags: Eating Disorders, Literature Review

Do patients drop out prematurely from exposure therapy for PTSD?

Many studies have demonstrated the efficacy of exposure therapy in the treatment of chronic PTSD. Despite the convincing outcome literature, a concern that this treatment may exacerbate symptoms and lead to premature dropout has been voiced on the…

Tags: Cognitive Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Dropouts

EMDR and emotionally oriented couples therapy

When reviewing past and current research on the role of emotion in couples therapy, there appeared to be a lack of articulation concerning how emotional expressions and relational dynamics are affected by emotional trauma that has not been accessed.…

Tags: Empirical Study, Family Therapy, Literature Review, Marital Issue, Nonclinical Case Study, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

The current status of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) has increasingly been proposed as an effective therapeutic procedure for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health problems. However, views on EMDR in the research literature…

Tags: Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Reprocessing Therapy

Cognitive-behavioral and pharmacologic perspectives on the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder

The following sections consider biologic and cognitive-behavioral perspectives on PTSD and strategies for its treatment. Pharmacologic strategies examined to date have included treatment with beta-adrenergic blockers and alpha-adrenergic agonists,…

Tags: Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Drug Therapy, Literature Review, Neurobiology, Psychopharmacology, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Met het oog op morgen: Een overzicht van EMDR-studies With an eye to tomorrow: A review of EMDR studies

De Eye Movement Desensibilisatie Reprocessing (EMDR), ontwikkeld door Shapiro, is een relatief nieuwe methode voor de korte psychotherapeutische PTSS gerelateerde symptomen. Dit artikel is een overzicht van 27 empirische studies met behulp van de…

Tags: Brief Psychotherapy, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) e psicoterapia del disturbo post-traumatico da stress: Considerazioni critiche e linee di tendenza EMDR and PTSD psychotherapy: Critical evaluations and current trends

L'Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) è una forma di psicoterapia relativamente recente nota soprattutto per la sua discussa efficacia nella psicoterapia del Disturbo Post-Traumatico da Stress (PTSD), ma anche per l'accesa polemica…

Tags: Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

EMDR: Implications of the use of reprocessing therapy in nursing practice

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Purpose: To examine the available evidence base for EMDR treatment in psychiatric nursing practice. Sources: Evidenced-based research findings, published case and anecdotal reports, and primary…

Tags: Clinical Efficacy, Literature Review, Nursing, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A comprehensive literature review

Since Francine Shapiro's first published paper on EMD therapy in 1989, there has been a tendency toward polarization in EMDR research. Those who tend to believe in the effectiveness of EMDR tend to find results which confirm their point of view.…

Tags: Literature Review, Treatment Effectiveness

EMDR: Why the controversy?

Eye-movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has been widely supported in the literature for its effectiveness in treating PTSD and a variety of other diagnoses and symptoms. The variable findings regarding whether its effects are for reasons…

Tags: Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Interventions for trauma-related emotional disturbances in adult victims of crime

This paper provides an overview of several treatment interventions for trauma-related disturbances in adult victims of crime. Following a brief discussion of mental health service utilization among crime victims, we describe interventions for acute…

Tags: Adult, Crime, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment, Treatment Effectiveness

Unanswered questions about the empirical support for EMDR in the treatment of PTSD: A review of research

A literature review was conducted to examine whether EMDR should be considered an empirically-supported treatment for PTSD. Relying largely but not exclusively on electronic data bases such as Medline and PsycInfo, journal articles published through…

Tags: Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

Medication and non-medication treatments of post-traumatic stress disorder

Recent developments in the psychological and pharmacological management of post-traumatic stress disorder are reviewed. This review of controlled outcome studies indicates that: (i) cognitive behavior therapy is the psychological treatment of choice;…

Tags: Atypical Antidepressant, Cognitive Therapy, Drug Therapy, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Treatment, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder: A review of an emerging therapy

Background: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a relatively new form of psychotherapy for PTSD. We critically reviewed randomized controlled trials of EMDR. Methods: A wide range of electronic databases and reference lists of…

Tags: Health Care Costs, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

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