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Using eye movement desensitisation reprocessing therapy as a tool to wean off ADHD medication: Two case reports

Eye movement desensitisation reprocessing (EMDR) therapy was developed by Francine Shapiro following an incidental discovery in 1987 of how eye movements during a walk in the park decreased negative emotions associated with distressing memories.…

Tags: ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Medication, New Zealand, Therapy, Treatment

EMDR with children. An overview of research and clinical practice

For more than 25 years, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been widely used with infants, children and adolescents internationally. Meta-analyses including randomised controlled trials and single case experimental design studies…

Tags: Child, Therapy, Trauma, Treatment

SVS EMDR group protocol: A collaborative approach to trauma therapy

The authors discuss the benefits of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) group therapy when delivered as an adjunct to individual therapy for sexual violence survivors (SVS) engaged in trauma treatment. The SVS protocol was developed…

Tags: New Zealand, Sexual Violence, SVS Group Protocol, Therapy, Trauma

Integrative eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and family therapy model for treating attachment trauma: Possibilities in the New Zealand context

The negative consequences of attachment trauma are evident on individual and interpersonal levels. Presenting problems for young clients with attachment trauma include posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, anxiety and severely disrupted behaviour.…

Tags: Attachment, New Zealand, Therapy

EMDR: An effective treatment for PTSD

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is a treatment, developed by Shapiro, that many therapists are finding helpful for treating persons suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety-related disorders. This…

Tags: Anxiety, Case Studies, Eye Movements, Injuries, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Therapy

The fundamental importance of the therapeutic relationship in trauma work and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy

The use of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy has become increasingly prevalent, particularly in the context of complex trauma. Despite this, there is a paucity of research exploring this particular mode of therapy from the…

Tags: Therapeutic Relationship, Therapist Experience, Therapy

Evaluating outcomes and experience of EMDR through an NHS Trust's staff support service

AimAn National Health Service (NHS) mental health trust developed a pathway offering eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) to healthcare professionals (HCPs). This research aimed to evaluate whether EMDR was linked to improvements in…

Tags: NHS, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Staff, Staff Support, Staff Wellbeing, Therapy

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) sebuah teknik terapi guna menangani posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) di tengah melonjaknya kasus pemerkosaanEye movement Ddesensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) a therapeutic technique to handle posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) amid the soaring rape cases

Beberapa tahun terakhir, Indonesia mengalami peningkatan atau pelonjakkan kasus pelecehan seksual, selama rentan waktu tahun 2016 hingga 2021, laporan kasus pelecehan seksual mengalami peningkatan sebesar 31%, data tersebut tidak termasuk kasus…

Tags: Rape, Sexual Harassment, Therapy, Trauma

How EMDR has changed lives - For clients and clinicians

In this talk, Dr. Ross will describe how EMDR has affected his own thinking and practice and how it has changed the lives of both clients and clinicians. For him personally, it has changed his thinking about trauma therapy both technically and in…

Tags: Client, Therapy

Working with parents to support children's therapy

Tags: Children, Parenting, Parents, Therapy

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing can be effective, non-traditional trauma treatment

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy used primarily to treat trauma. The concept is that recalling the trauma while experiencing stimuli such as eye movement or hand tapping can help the brain reprocess those memories and…

Tags: Therapy, Trauma

Therapy with an eye for detail

Our eye movements become rapid when we recall traumatic events. A controversial theory maintains that controlling this could be an effective therapy. Geraldine Walsh Investigates. [Excerpt]

Tags: Anxiety, General, Overview, Therapy

Article 52: Integrating interpersonal social rhythm therapy and eye movement desensitization reprocessing in treatment planning for bipolar disorder

The information presented in this article intends to assist clinicians in developing effective treatment goals for clients with bipolar disorder by integrating interpersonal social rhythm therapy (IPSRT) and eye movement desensitization and…

Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Counseling, Cyclothymic Personality, Social Rhythm Therapy, Therapy, Treatment, Treatment Planning

Progressive counting with therapy clients with post-traumatic stress disorder: Three cases

Background: Progressive counting (PC) is a recently developed trauma treatment that has shown promise in several studies with nontherapy- client samples. Aim: The aim of this archival study was to determine whether PC’s effectiveness found in other…

Tags: Loss, Therapy, Trauma, Treatment

What treatments are available for childhood sexual abuse, and how do they compare?

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is frequent, with rates for significant abuse estimated at 15-20% of the female population and 8-10% of the male population. Such CSA frequently leads to significant short-term and long-term sequalae including a multitude of…

Tags: Children, Incidence, Prevalence, Sexual Abuse, Therapy, Treatment

Mecanismos potenciales del cambio

Potential mechanisms of change

La desensibilización y el reprocesamiento a través de movimientos oculares (EMDR) es un enfoque terapéutico guiado por el modelo del procesamiento adaptativo de la información (PAI). Este artículo ofrece una breve visión general de algunos de los…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing, AIP, Information Processing, Mechanism of Action, Therapy

Compassionate-focused EMDR

Compassion-focused therapy was developed to enhance physiological systems related to well-being, safeness, and connectedness in people where shame and self-criticism inhibited progress in therapy (Gilbert, 2000; Gilbert & Irons, 2005). This…

Tags: Compassion, Self-Criticism, Shame, Therapy, Trauma

Introducing trauma therapy in Asia - Practical experience

Since 2002 Trauma Aid has organized and implemented trainings in Psychotraumatology and EMDR in Asia and other countries; the main objective was to train local psychologists to treat people in need who would not have access to this kind of service…

Tags: Asia, Keynote, Therapy

Posttraumatic stress disorder: Bio-psycho-social aspects, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and autogenic training in persistent stress: Case study, part 1

The inclusion of the diagnostic category Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in both the American and the international diagnostic systems, and the definition of the ‘exceptional stressor’ has probably contributed to the recent boom in…

Tags: Biopsychosocial Models, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Therapy

The efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy technique in the treatment of test anxiety of college students

Explores the efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of test anxiety. Thirty-five college students with test anxiety were assigned to either a treatment or delayed treatment control group. EMDR was shown to…

Tags: College Students, Higher Education, Stress Management, Stress Variable, Test Anxiety, Therapy

Efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the Iranian veterans with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after Iran-Iraq War

To explore the efficacy of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to treat Iranian Veterans who have experienced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after Iran-Iraq war, a pilot study was designed with pre-test, post-test and control…

Tags: Iran, Iraqi War, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Therapy, Veterans, War

EMDR en de effectiviteit van tappen versus tappen en klikjes, Een onderzoek naar de efficiëntie van EMDR met betrekking tot de werkgeheugenhypothese EMDR effectiveness in tapping vs. taps and clicks, a study of the effectiveness of EMDR in relation to the working hypothesis

Recente onderzoeken naar Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) doen een rol van het werkgeheugen vermoeden. Met betrekking tot het effect van de bilaterale stimulatie bij EMDR-therapie, is echter nog weinig onderzoek gedaan naar het effect…

Tags: Therapy

EMDR (Göz hareketleri ile fuyarsızlaştırma ve yeniden işleme): Psikoterapide farklı bir deçenek EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing): A different option in psychotherapy

Göz hareketleriyle duyarsızlaştırma ve yeniden işleme (EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), son yıllarda oldukça ilgi çeken terapi yöntemlerinden biridir. Bu ilginin bir nedeni, özellikle Travma Sonrası Stres Bozukluğu (TSSB)…

Tags: Neurobiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Therapy

Effects of psychotherapy with people who have been sexually assaulted: A meta-analysis

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis of the treatment outcome studies of different types of psychotherapeutic approaches for sexual assault victims experiencing PTSD or rape trauma symptoms. There were 15 outcome studies identified for…

Tags: Meta-Analysis, Outcome, Rape, Sexual Assault, Therapy, Treatment

Controversial therapy could reduce trauma

Discusses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR)--a controversial new treatment for psychological trauma. Talk of EMDR has been sweeping through the popular press over the past few months. Headlines have called the treatment…

Tags: Anxiety, Flashback, Intrusive Thought Process, Nightmare, Therapy, Trauma, Traumatic Memory, Treatment

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A critical analysis

Since Shapiro's introduction of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in 1989, it has been a highly controversial therapeutic technique. Critical reviews of Shapiro's initial study have highlighted many methodological shortcomings in…

Tags: Counseling Technique, Counseling Theory, Criticism, Evaluation Method, Eye Movements, Research Problem, Therapy

I disturbi post-traumatici da stress, fattori di rischio, aspetti diagnostici e trattamento con l'EMDR The post-traumatic stress disorder factors of risk, diagnostic aspects and treatment with EMDR

In seguito a un evento traumatico (critico) il cervello potrebbe immagazzinare una parte delle intense emozioni che scaturiscono al momento del trauma per elaborarle in un secondo momento, quando lo stato di sopravvivenza è recuperato e lo shock…

Tags: Emergency Treatment, PTSD, Therapy

Ask not for whom the bell tolls: Controversy in post–traumatic stress disorder treatment outcome findings for war veterans

This article reviews and analyzes two national studies of the efficacy of treatment for war veterans suffering from post–traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Acareful analysis of the studies conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)…

Tags: Department of Veteran's Affairs, DVA, Outcome, Policy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Research, Therapy, Treatment, Veterans, Vietnam

The goal of therapy

Tags: Therapy

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing zur beeinflussung des cravings alkoholabhängiger Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to influence of cravings of alcohol

Klinische Erfahrung und Ergebnisse der experimentellen Suchtforschung weisen auf die Existenz eines Suchtgedächtnisses hin (Heyne, May et al. 2000; Böning 2001; Spanagel 2001). Nach wie vor ist dies Konzept jedoch umstritten (Böning 2000; Tretter…

Tags: Addiction, Alcoholism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Therapy

How the stars keep from burning out

Hollywood stars use of EMDR

Tags: David Grand, Therapy, Treatment

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

Finger-flash therapy catches on

Though skeptics still criticize this unusual treatment, in which therapists wave their fingers in front of their patients' eyes, EMDR is gaining acceptance in the psychotherapy community. The approach was first developed by psychologist Francine…

Tags: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Therapy, Treatment

Hoe groot ben jij naast een brandweerman?' Traumaverwerkingmet EMDR als een episode in een kindertherapie When you stand next to a fireman: Dealing with trauma using EMDR in therapy with children

Dit artikel tracht te illustreren hoe traumaverwerking deel kan uitmaken van een langdurige individuele therapie. Wanneer één, of meerdere traumatische gebeurtenissen het therapieproces blokkeren, is het mogelijk een episode van traumaverwerking in…

Tags: Children, Therapy, Trauma, Treatment

When words fail

Some advocated a controversial form of therapy called eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), which involves asking the patient to focus on the therapist's moving finger as they recall the unpleasant memories. The condition became…

Tags: Disaster, Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Research, Study, Therapy

Psychology should list empirically supported principles of change (ESPs) and not credentialed trademark therapies or other treatment packages

Current systems for listing empirically supported therapies (ESTs) provide recognition to treatment packages, many of them proprietary and trademarked, without regard to the principles of change believed to account for their effectiveness. Our…

Tags: Behavior Principles, Empirically Supported, Therapy, Treatment Outcome

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