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A randomized controlled trial investigating the efficacy of Eeye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) stabilization techniques in reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression

This keynote address will develop a model of a liberatory, intersectional, trauma-informed practice of care for the therapist’s self. Explore the corporatization of this construct and ways in which therapists can take it back from those who have…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques

The theradelic approach: Trauma-informed psychedelic-assisted therapy & EMDR

Recent studies demonstrate that psychedelic-assisted therapy can enhance trained ‘psychotherapists’ ability to heal and integrate trauma. Currently, ketamine is the only legal psychedelic medication in the United States. Find out about specific…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques

EMDR and the human animal bond: Ways our four-legged friends help us heal

Animals have the unique ability to help us access our internal worlds, explore our belief systems, and increase healing both psychologically and physiologically. Research over the last years has shown an increase understanding of how and why…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques

Practical applications of the polyvagal theory in EMDR therapy

In this workshop, we explore how to increase your capacity to support traumatized clients through applications of the Polyvagal Theory in your EMDR therapy practice. Tenets of the Polyvagal Theory are presented as practical, EMDR therapy applications…

Tags: Polyvagal Theory, Strategies, Techniques

Play therapy-supported EMDR for culturally based trauma in adoption

Out of home placement and adoption is sometimes seen as a solution to child maltreatment but becomes its own impactful and potentially adverse life event. Child EMDR therapists are on the front lines of attempts to bring about healing for children in…

Tags: Adolescents, Adoption, Children, Strategies, Techniques

Polyvagal informed interventions for resourcing and reprocessing

Learn to harness the power of Polyvagal Theory within EMDR Therapy. This workshop explores how to tap into the wisdom of Polyvagal Theory with creative resourcing and stabilization interventions, along with techniques to support reprocessing.…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques

Developments in the flash technique: An advance in EMDR processing

In the four years since the Flash Technique was introduced at the 2019 EMDRIA Conference it has been refined and improved and been validated by many research studies. In this presentation we will describe the most up-to-date instructions for the…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques

The many tracks of EMDR therapy: Sourcebook of techniques, interventions, strategies, and modifications to the standard EMDR therapy protocol

Since 1987, the chance discovery of the effect of eye movements on traumatic/disturbing memories, the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model (Shapiro, 1995, 2001, 2018) to explain it, and an evolved comprehensive psychotherapeutic approach…

Tags: Analogies, Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Interweaves, Inventions, Metaphors, Modifications, Strategies, Techniques

From 1:1 to 1: More than one (group EMDR)

While EMDR has been most commonly evaluated and applied as individual therapy, this modality of intervention delivery might not represent the most cost- and time-effective approach as the demand for mental health services is rapidly increasing,…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques

What to do when "Go with that" does not work: Clinical choice points

When we were all trained in EMDR therapy, we were told that all you have to do is say, "Go with that" and everything will change. While EMDR therapy is amazingly effective, it is often not quite that simple. Sometimes our clients' processing stops,…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques

Beyond the cognitive interweave - strategies to facilitate memory reprocessing

Background and aimsManagement of obstacles in memory reprocessing is crucial in EMDR Therapy. Obstacle may impair processing in simple PTSD as well as in more complex disorders. The cognitive interweave offers many options. But in some patient even…

Tags: Cognitive Interweave, Memory Processing Strategy, Strategies

Therapy strategies for substance use disorders

Substance use disorders (SUDs) are prevalent and carry a high mortality rate. SUDs are chronic health conditions resulting from a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, recovery from SUDs is possible. There are several evidence-based…

Tags: Strategies, Substance Use Disorder, Treatment Strategy

EMDR's efficacy for obsessive compulsive disorder

This article evaluates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for individuals with a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted on 55 and 90 patients with OCD.…

Tags: Behavioral Strategy, Exposure, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Strategies

Overcoming attachment-related treatment impasses

This workshop features a series of three interventions that can be helpful in working with clients whose parents fell short in some important way. The interventions are simple, structured, and scripted. Participants will be able to implement any of…

Tags: Attachment, Strategies, Techniques

Intensive trauma-focused therapy

This workshop will outline the potential benefits and pitfalls of intensive trauma-focused therapy, review the research, and explain, in detail,how to do it. The focus is not on a specific intervention such as EMDR, and no modifications of Phases 3-6…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques

Incorporating "talking to the voice' in EMDR therapy

An emerging literature describes the adaptation of EMDR to the treatment of individuals with auditory hallucinations, including those with dissociative and psychotic diagnoses. In this workshop, the presenters will describe an approach of ‘talking to…

Tags: Strategies, Techniques, Voices

Research papers: Techniques/strategies

OCD is an invasive disorder that can impair several life domains (DSM-5, 2013). The case of a 36-year-old married teacher with varied psychotherapies since age of 15 is reported.

Tags: Research, Strategies, Techniques

Resource activation for treating post-traumatic stress disorder, co-morbid symptoms and impaired functioning: A randomized controlled trial in Cambodia

Resource-oriented trauma therapy combined with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (ROTATE) is utilized for treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), co-morbid symptoms and impaired functioning. ROTATE was conducted in Cambodia through…

Tags: Cambodia, Comorbid PTSD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT, Research Symposium, Standard Paper, Strategies, Techniques

The need for meaningful evaluation – Collaboration & standardising data collection

Across all health care the importance and need to evaluate services are paramount, to ensure that the care we deliver is having the desired outcome and evidence based. In this session, we will explore various methods and the hierarchy of evaluation…

Tags: Collaborative Research Strategy, Strategies

性被害の理解と対応 Understanding of and approaches to sexual abuse

性的虐待の実態を提示し、外傷の重症度に影響を与える要因を議論することを目的とした作者。また、治療的アプローチ、EMDRの実装に関連するポイント、EMDRの認知織り特定のタイプ、および虐待を受けた人のためのストレス対処戦略の獲得だけでなく、臨床医自身の二次外傷性ストレスに対する対策がある発表した。The authors aimed to present the actual state of sexual abuse and discuss factors that affect the…

Tags: Cognitive Interweave, Justice, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Sexual Abuse, Stabilization, Strategies, Stress-Coping Strategy

A therapeutic strategy for victims of sex trafficking in the Netherlands

Human trafficking for sexual exploitation has serious and prolonged implications on an individual’s physical, sexual and psychological health. Research findings are indicative of the presence of a variety of psychological disorders in victims of sex…

Tags: Bijlmer Project, Human Trafficking, Netherlands, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Sex Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation, Strategies, Therapeutic Strategy, Victims

Advanced EMDR strategies for the body image distortion treatment in eating disorders

Everything we have heard we are, and the way we were told to be, is tied to our image. Behind this there is a meaning that in people with Eating Disorders acquires a value that ends up becoming the centre of their lives, around which they revolve.…

Tags: Body Image Distortion, Eating Disorders, Strategies

Strategies and pitfalls with early session EMDR in complex trauma: What helps and what hinders

Complex cases often present the therapist with a confused picture and the dilemma of how to “find a way in” swiftly but safely under time-limited conditions imposed by agency or waiting lists. This workshop explores ways in which therapists can…

Tags: Complex Trauma, Pitfalls, Strategies

L’integrazione possible: accedere alle emozioni con strategie imaginative e corporee Integration impossible: Access to emotions with imaginative and corporeal strategies

Il modello paradigmatico di intervento clinico al quale l’EMDR si ispira è di non interferenza all’interno dell’elaborazione adattiva prodotta autonomamente dal paziente, stimolato da una ottimale relazione terapeutica e dalla stimolazione bilaterale…

Tags: Imaginative Strategy, Somatic Intervention, Strategies

Adaptive information processing, targeting, the standard protocol, and strategies for successful outcomes in EMDR reprocessing

This article provides excerpts from each chapter of An EMDR Primer: From Practicum to Practice (Hensley, 2009) to assist novice eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) clinicians who are learning how to use this approach and to serve as…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing, AIP, Cognitive Interweave, Strategies, Target, Three-Pronged Approach, Unblocking Strategies

EMDR and cancer patients: Effetcts on PTSD and their illness coping strategies EMDR y pacientes con cáncer: Efectos sobre el TEPT y sus estrategias de afrontamiento de la enfermedad

The nature of this study is both observational and clinical. On the one hand it’s aimed to see how the criteria of PTSD (DSM-‐IV, 2000) are represented in traumatized cancer patients in between two different illness stages -‐ medical treatments and…

Tags: Cancer, Coping Strategy, Illness, Strategies

The courage to feel: The power of emotional competency within the EMDR protocol

Much of affect education is focused on managing and tolerating emotions. What is missing on the in this is an emphasis on the positive reasons for having feelings and how they work (objective #1). We need to be able to sell our clients on the…

Tags: Strategies

Pourquoi l'EMDR doit changer de nom Why EMDR must change its name

"Depuis ce temps, les thérapeutes EMDR ont découvert que les différents types de stimulation double attention, comme les robinets à main et les tons sont susceptibles d'avoir les mêmes effets. En face, il ya une bonne possibilité que le dénominateur…

Tags: Strategies

Developmental needs meeting strategy: A new treatment approach applied to dissociative identity disorder

This article describes the use of the Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS) for the treatment of dissociative identity disorder (DID). The DNMS is an ego state therapy which guides a client’s own internal resources to meet developmental needs…

Tags: Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy, Strategies

The developmental needs meeting strategy: Eight case studies

This study investigates the merits of the Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS), a relatively new ego state therapy. The DNMS is based on the assumption that many presenting problems are due to wounded ego states stuck in childhood because of…

Tags: Developmental Need, Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy, Ego State Therapy, Introject, Psychodynamic, Strategies

Psychoedukácia a EMDR v dynamickej psychoterapii v azylovom dome pre týrané ženy Psychoeducation and EMDR in dynamic psychotherapy in the asylum house for abused women

Program azylového domu pre týrané ženy sa zameriava nielen na zabezpečenie ochrany klientky, ktorá opustila prostredie domáceho násilia, ale poskytuje aj konkrétnu sociálnu starostlivosť a emocionálnu podporu. Súčasťou programu je individuálna…

Tags: Battered Women, Conscious and Unconscious, Identity, Personality Development, Positive Change in Perception, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Shelter, Strategies, Strategy of Psychotherapeutic Intervention, Violence

Browse Items (38 total)

A randomized controlled trial investigating the efficacy of Eeye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) stabilization techniques in reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression

Storytelling as an efffective tool of using EMDR therapy in young children: An Indian perspective

A two-step approach for stabilizing and processing

Liberatory trauma responsive intersectional self care for humans/therapists

The theradelic approach: Trauma-informed psychedelic-assisted therapy & EMDR

EMDR and the human animal bond: Ways our four-legged friends help us heal

Practical applications of the polyvagal theory in EMDR therapy

Play therapy-supported EMDR for culturally based trauma in adoption

Polyvagal informed interventions for resourcing and reprocessing

Developments in the flash technique: An advance in EMDR processing

The many tracks of EMDR therapy: Sourcebook of techniques, interventions, strategies, and modifications to the standard EMDR therapy protocol

From 1:1 to 1: More than one (group EMDR)

What to do when "Go with that" does not work: Clinical choice points

Beyond the cognitive interweave - strategies to facilitate memory reprocessing

Therapy strategies for substance use disorders

EMDR's efficacy for obsessive compulsive disorder

Overcoming attachment-related treatment impasses

Intensive trauma-focused therapy

Incorporating "talking to the voice' in EMDR therapy

Research papers: Techniques/strategies

Resource activation for treating post-traumatic stress disorder, co-morbid symptoms and impaired functioning: A randomized controlled trial in Cambodia

The need for meaningful evaluation – Collaboration & standardising data collection

性被害の理解と対応 Understanding of and approaches to sexual abuse

A therapeutic strategy for victims of sex trafficking in the Netherlands

Advanced EMDR strategies for the body image distortion treatment in eating disorders

Strategies and pitfalls with early session EMDR in complex trauma: What helps and what hinders

L’integrazione possible: accedere alle emozioni con strategie imaginative e corporee Integration impossible: Access to emotions with imaginative and corporeal strategies

Adaptive information processing, targeting, the standard protocol, and strategies for successful outcomes in EMDR reprocessing

EMDR and cancer patients: Effetcts on PTSD and their illness coping strategies EMDR y pacientes con cáncer: Efectos sobre el TEPT y sus estrategias de afrontamiento de la enfermedad

The courage to feel: The power of emotional competency within the EMDR protocol

Pourquoi l'EMDR doit changer de nom Why EMDR must change its name

Developmental needs meeting strategy: A new treatment approach applied to dissociative identity disorder

The developmental needs meeting strategy: Eight case studies

Psychoedukácia a EMDR v dynamickej psychoterapii v azylovom dome pre týrané ženy Psychoeducation and EMDR in dynamic psychotherapy in the asylum house for abused women

Treating attachment issues through EMDR and a family systems approach

EMDR from the heart: A relational view of healing traumatic memories

Developmental needs meeting strategy for EMDR therapists

Relational strategies in EMDR