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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

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

Research meets practice: The stabilization controversy

The workshop will start with a presentation of the newest research findings for the treatment of complex trauma.These findings contradict long (and dearly) held beliefs about the treatment of complex clients with psychosis, borderline personality…

Tags: Complex PTSD, Research, Stabilization, Techniques

Processing in the fast lane: Dealing with intense emotional reactions

EMDR therapy can be very intense. Despite a clinician's best efforts, a client may suddenly abreact. This workshop will focus on what to do to facilitate a client through emotionally intense abreactions. There are many ways the EMDR clinician can…

Tags: Techniques

EMDR and auditive intrusions

The working memory is assumed to comprise three components: a limited capacity attentional control system - the central executive - and two subsidiary slave systems, the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop. Of these, the visuospatial…

Tags: Auditive Intrusions, Techniques

Demanualizing EMDR thanks to standard variations

The presentation will interest researchers and clinicians alike, in that it challenges the current tendency to develop specific protocols for each diagnosis, context, and population. While demonstrating EMDR's effectiveness and efficacy in the…

Tags: Demanualization, Stardardized Variations, Techniques

Mind your head, mind your trauma; EMDR mixed with BEPP and CBT

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we, as trauma-therapists, be able to give that trauma-treatment, that fits the patient best. In addition to EMDR, there is also the possibility to offer other forms of therapy. Like BEPP (Brief Ecclectic Psychotherapy for…

Tags: BEPP, Techniques

A fork in the road, EMDR and scientific validation

Which practices can be combined with EMDR and which combinations should be avoided? And according to which criteria? This symposium hopes to introduce new ethical questions to the EMDR community, questions that may have repercussions for national and…

Tags: Research, Scientific Validation, Techniques

Mediators, mechanisms and moderators of action for EMDR therapy: A review of multiplex effects in modes of bilateral stimulation

In "Mediators and mechanisms of change in psychotherapy research" Kazdin states unequivocally (2007, p. 1) that "after decades of psychotherapy research, we cannot provide an evidence-based explanation for how or why even our most well studied…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Techniques

Treating the whole child - Integrating child psychotherapies into the AIP/EMDR model

This workshop will focus on widening and deepening our treatment of children by integrating into the AIP model and the EMDR protocol, developmental knowledge and effective techniques to deal with the unique challenges presented by children of various…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Neurobiology, Techniques, Therapeutic Relationship

Masterclass 'Troubleshooting in EMDR'

This workshop is like the last page in the manual of your new washing machine: what can go wrong, how do I know, and what can I do? It is an integrative workshop on the six levels where you could get into trouble with EMDR clients, identifying…

Tags: Complex PTSD, Techniques, Therapeutic Relationship

Breaking the cycle: EMDR therapy solutions for problematic anger, acting out and addictive behaviors

Topic-informed EMDR offers a unique potential to more effectively treat clients presenting with problematic anger, hostility and a range of related behaviors across a spectrum of severity. Relevant client issues include temper outbursts; an array of…

Tags: Aggression, Anger, Techniques, Violence

Absorption technique and EMDR to enhance the motivation, reduce anxiety and increase confidence of athletes for preparing the province competition

43 athletes from many kind of sport like football, wushu, shooting, tae kwon do, gymnastics, athletics and billiards complained lack of confidence and anxious related bad experience in competitions they have been followed before. In general, though…

Tags: Absorption Technique, Anxiety, Athlete, Competition, Confidence, Techniques

Keeping it in the zone: Assessment and techniques for optimal processing

This workshop focuses on identifying and maintaining the conditions necessary for optimal processing. Part one describes a model for rapid assessment of negative cognitions and predicts the course of the processing: the Domains of Self. Part two…

Tags: Assessment, Processing, Techniques

Gentle EMDR: A precursor to standard EMDR protocol

In the last few years several EMDR clinicians have introduced new approaches which have expanded on EMDR. Two examples are Ricky Greenwald's techniques for 'running a movie' and David Grand's performance enhancement techniques using visualization.…

Tags: Gentle EMDR, Poster, Techniques

One patient can have another within! A specific protocol to treat such cases using EMDR and transactional analysis

In EMDR, even when there's a clear indication for therapy, and it's been conducted in a complete manner with a clearly defined target(and cognition), it sometimes happens that the patient's problme remains unsolved, without any real explanation…

Tags: Poster, Protocol, Techniques, Transactional Analysis

EMDR with children 2-10 years of age: Practical and creative therapuetic tools derived from an ongoing fidelity study based on the adaptive information processing model

This presentation will encompass the findings from a current and ongoing research study on EMDR with young children, with implications for clinical practice arising from this study. The clinical experiences of the presenter, which include treating…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing, AIP, Children, Fidelity Study, Techniques

The absorption technique for children

The Absorption Technique for Children is a protocol that was derived from the work of Arne Hofmann (2003) who based his work on an adaptation of "The Wedging Technique" (Kiessling, 2009). The Absorption Technique for Children is a resource technique…

Tags: Absorption Technique, Children, Eye Movements, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Resources, Skills, Strength, Stressful Situation, Techniques, Wedging Technique

Questioning

Stephen Wolinksy (1991) describes a simple technique for dealing with negative cognitions that I have found to be much more effective than those used by cognitive therapists such as Albert Ellis and Aaron Neck, especially when it is combined with…

Tags: Questioning, Techniques

A response to May's commentary on "A look at EMDR:" Technique, research and use with college students

The present article is a response to R. May's commentary (see record 2005-03961-005) on our original article: "A Look at EMDR: Technique, Research and Use with College Students" (see record 2003-10645-005). May points out the controversial nature of…

Tags: Brief Therapy, College Students, Comment, Letter, Outcomes, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Technique, PTSD, Reply, Research, Techniques, Theory

How do we know what works?

This commentary raises questions about how we assess therapeutic techniques. In particular, it critiques a recent paper promoting EMDR for use with college students.

Tags: Brief Therapy, College Students, Comment, Evaluation, Letter, Outcomes, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Technique, PTSD, Reply, Research, Techniques, Theory

A look at EMDR: Technique, research, and use with college students

Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), often resulting in dramatic symptom relief in clients, has become an increasingly popular treatment for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and a variety of other diagnoses and symptoms. EMDR…

Tags: Brief Therapy, College Students, Literature Outcome, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Research, Review, Techniques, Theory

Becoming safely embodied: Body-mind approaches to working with complex post-traumatic stress

This conference presentation abstract summarizes a workshop that introduces applications of somatic therapies that are easily integrated into EMDR, cognitive-behavioral, and psychodynamic treatments. When, where, and how therapist and patient might…

Tags: CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Complex PTSD, Mind-Body Connection, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychodynamic Treatment, PTSD, Somatic Therapies, Techniques, Therapeutic Modality

Best resourcing, affect regulation & abreaction techniques: From the armamentaria of hypnoanalytic, EMDR, somatic experiencing, and cognitive behavioral sources

In PTSD and dissociative conditions, the goal of treatment is to transform dissociated raw traumatic experience into an adaptively resolved experience. Lessons have been gleaned from a variety of sources ranging from earliest experiences with World…

Tags: Abreaction, Affect Regulation, Techniques

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