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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 (PTSD) diagnosis after the…

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

Current status and future directions for EMDR research

This review provides the groundwork for a basic understanding of articles written about eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), including a brief overview of theory and practice. It documents EMDR's established efficacy in the treatment…

Tags: Efficacy, Information Processing, Literature Review, Mechanism of Action, Research Needs, Review, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitisation processing for PTSD

The authors provide alternative methods for researching the efficacy of eye movement desensitization treatment.

Tags: Letter, Methodology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Professional Criticism, PTSD, Research Needs

Alternative stimuli in the use of EMD(R)

The writer comments on the use of eye movement desensitization treatment and treatment evaluation.

Tags: Letter, Research Needs

Going for the cure

This article discusses the challenges that working with PTSD clients present to therapists who wish to avoid vicarious traumatization. In addition, the work of Charles Figley and Joyce Carbonell to further understanding and treatment of PTSD is…

Tags: Behavior Therapy, Commentary, Epidemiology, Neurolinguistic Programming, NLP, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Research Needs, TFT, Thought Field Therapy, TIR, Traumatic Incident Reduction, Treatment Effectiveness

As good as it seems? A review of EMDR experimental research

The article reviews 7 experimental studies that examined eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment. The 7 studies varied greatly in their complexity, their designs, how treatment effects were measured, and their results. Each…

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

Post-traumatic stress disorders: Concepts and therapy

This book, written by contributors from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, represents the fruits of ten years of working with survivors of accidents and disasters. It contains a coherent approach to the psychology underpinning their stress…

Tags: Adult, Behavior Therapy, Children and Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Therapy, Coping Behaviors, Epidemiology, Etiology, Intrusive Thoughts, Personality Traits, Psychobiology, PTSD, Research Needs, Social Support Network, Survivors, Treatment

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the most recent additions to the armoury of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This chapter briefly outlines the EMDR procedure, and reviews the growing number of…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Literature Reviews, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Research Needs, Survivors, Treatment Effectiveness

The roles of popularised distraction during exposure and researcher allegiance during outcome trials

The utility of distraction during exposure is a hotly debated topic, and research into its utility for the treatment of PTSD has been unyielding. This paper aims to briefly present an explanation for a trend that has become apparent in the outcome…

Tags: Exposure Therapy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Research Needs, Treatment Effectiveness

Exploring change mechanisms in EMDR applied to "small-t trauma" in short-term dynamic psychotherapy: Research questions and speculations

This article represents a process of preliminary search and discovery regarding the active mechanisms in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when used in Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP). Patients' (N = 7) responses to EMDR…

Tags: Effects, Empirical Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, PTSD, Research Needs, Stressor, Survivor, 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

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

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Discusses the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as a treatment of psychopathology in children. Systemic research concerning EMDR is sparse. The use of EMDR in the treatment of anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Children, Commentary, Letter, Research Needs, 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

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

Some nontraditional (unconventional and/or innovative) psychosocial treatment for children and adolescents: Critique and proposed screening principles

Five examples of nontraditional psychosocial treatments used for children/adolescents are reviewed: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, electroencephalographic (EEG) biofeedback, deep pressure/touch therapies, stress-challenge treatments,…

Tags: Adventure Therapy, Aversion Therapy, Biofeedback Training, Body Psychotherapy, Children and Adolescents, Literature Reviews, Research Needs, Treatment Effectiveness

Integrating short term dynamic psychotherapy and EMDR

Participants will be able to: 1) name the three main components of Malan's conceptual schema of the "Universal Principle of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy" in Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: The Two Triangles; 2) describe how EMDR interfaces well with…

Tags: Effects, Malan, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, PTSD, Research Needs, Small t Trauma, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Two Triangles, Universal Principles of Psychodynamic Therapy

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