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Evidence of a decrease in heart rate and skin conductance responses in PTSD patients after a single EMDR session

Patients with PTSD demonstrate abnormal psychophysiological responses to stressful events. Given that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy appears to be a treatment of choice for trauma victims, the aim of the present study…

Tags: Adult, Arousal, Clinical Trial, Electrodermal Activity, Empirical Study, French, Heart Rate, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychophysiology, PTSD, Quantitative Study Skin Conductance, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment, Treatment Effectiveness

Preliminary evidence for the efficacy of EMDR in treating generalized anxiety disorder

This preliminary study sought to evaluate the potential effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as a treatment modality for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Using a singlecase design with multiple baselines across…

Tags: Efficacy, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Single-Case Design, Time-Series Analyses, Treatment

Neuroanatomical changes after eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment in posttraumatic stress disorder

Several authors have found smaller hippocampal volumes in patients with PTSD and some have suggested that psychotropic drugs may promote hippocampus neurogenesis and reverse the decrease in hippocampus volume.1 However, the only study that has…

Australian guidelines for the treatment of adults with acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder

Over the past 2-3 years, clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute stress disorder (ASD) have been developed in the USA and UK. There remained a need, however, for the development of Australian CPGs for…

Tags: Acute Stress Disorder, ASD, Guidelines, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma, Treatment

EMDR or distracted exposure: Is there a difference in the treatment of PTSD

Tags: Distracted Exposure, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment

Innovative therapies for trauma related disorders: TARGET, TREM, and EMDR

In this chapter, Marvasti and Colt explore the victims' response to trauma and examine nontraditional treatment models for psychological trauma. The TARGET model (Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy) of treatment focuses on current…

Tags: Emotional Trauma, Empowerment, Female, Group Education and Therapy, Group Psychotherapy, Human Females, Models, Nontraditional Treatment Model, Psychological Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Symptoms, Target, Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy, Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model, Treatment, TREM, Victimization, Victims

EMDR with cultural and generational introjects

EMDR, a therapy primarily known for the treatment of trauma, can root out destructive cultural or generational intojects. It can target the cultural transmission of racism, sexism, class expectations, and the increasingly narrow parameters of…

Tags: Attitude Change, Class Expectations, Cultural Expectation, Cultural Introject, Destructive Belief, Emotional Trauma, Generational Introject, Introjection, Racial and Ethnic Attitude, Racism, Sexism, Sexual Attitude, Social Class, Trauma, Treatment

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment of communication anxiety: A closer look

The purpose of this study was to replicate the results of previous research with respect to EMD/R (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and of this researcher's investigation of EMD/R treatment of public-speaking anxiety (Foley &…

Tags: Assessment Speech, College Students, Communication Anxiety, Effectiveness Evaluation, Oral Communication, Speech Anxiety, Treatment, Treatment Effectiveness

The use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of a cancer survivor

Tags: Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment

Trauma resolution treatment as an adjunct to standard treatment for sexual offenders

This study explored the use of adding trauma resolution therapy to standard cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention therapy for sex offenders. Ten adjudicated sex offenders with sexual abuse histories were treated with eye movement desensitization…

Tags: Sex Offender, Trauma, Treatment

A trial of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) compared to systematic desensitization in the treatment of specific phobias

Tags: Phobias, Treatment

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing reduces PTSD symptoms compared with fluoxetine at six months post-treatment

Is eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing more effective than fluoxetine in people with post-traumatic stress disorder? van der Kolk BA, Spinazzola J, Blaustein ME, et al. A randomized clinical trial of eye movement desensitization and…

Tags: Desensitization, Fluoxetine, Mental Illness, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Review, Treatment

Replicating Milgram

Stanley Milgram's classic experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people would - with encouragement from authority figures - give escalating electric shocks to innocent people so painful that the subjects, who were actually in league with…

Tags: Efficacy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD, Treatment, Veterans

The efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with racially and culturally diverse populations: A project based upon an independent investigation

Tags: Cross-Cultural Counseling, Minorities, Psychic Trauma, Treatment

Anxiety Disorders – Treatment of phobias with EMDR

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Symposium, Treatment

Responding to massive trauma: An integrated EMDR/Ego state approach for treating survivors of earlier trauma

Tags: Ego State Approach, Mass Disaster, Survivor, Symposium, Trauma, Treatment

Anxiety disorders – The treatment of victims of torture with EMDR

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Symposium, Torture, Treatment

EMDR in the treatment of chronically traumatised children

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Symposium, Treatment

EMDR as an early treatment with survivors of mass catastrophes

Tags: Mass Disaster, Recent Event, Survivor, Symposium, Treatment

Participant's experiences of EMDR training within the UK and Ireland

This study investigated the experiences of several hundreds of participants who had undertaken EMDR training in the United Kingdom and Ireland over the last ten years. The research group was drawn from both the membership of the EMDR UK and I…

Tags: Ireland, Training, Treatment, UK, United Kingdom

EMDR study yields positive results

Reports on the findings from a clinical trial suggesting the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). How EMDR is conducted.

Tags: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment

Non conventional EMDR protocols in treatment of resistant OCD patients (Non or poor responders)

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Symposium, Treatment

Pre-war anxiety as impacted by previously unreported (embedded) trauma & EMDR: A preliminary hypothesis

Tags: Anxiety, Mass Disaster, Symposium, Treatment, War

Advanced techniques in the EMDR-based treatment of complex trauma

EMDR is an important therapy in the treatment of complex PTSD, including dissociative disorders and certain personality disorders. This presentation will provide solutions to problems within the 8 phases of EMDR. Objectives include managing triggers…

Tags: Complex Trauma, Treatment

An exploratory study of the effects of EMDR on state/trait anxiety and anger in adult male sex offenders

The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the effects of EMDR on state and trait anxiety and anger levels associated with developmental traumas of sexual offenders in outpatient sex offender treatment. A qualitative component explored…

Tags: Anger, Anxiety, Criminal, Empirical Study, Outpatient, Qualitative Study, Quantitative Study, Sex Offender, Sex Offense, Trauma, Treatment

EMDR reprocessing of the addiction memory: Pretreatment, posttreatment, and 1-month follow-up

This randomized controlled study investigated the effects of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of alcohol dependency. EMDR was applied to reprocess the addiction memory (AM) in chronically dependent patients. The…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing, Addiction Memory, Craving, TAU, Treatment, Treatment As Usual

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

EMDR treatment of recent events and community disasters

This special issue on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment of recent events and community disasters gathers information on the application of EMDR in situations of extreme chaos, disaster, violence, and war. The authors…

Tags: Community Disasters, Recent Event, Treatment

Psychoanalytic perspectives on accelerated information processing (EMDR)

Psychoanalysis and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) are, in manifest technique, utterly different. Nevertheless, both may draw upon universal and natural processes of healing the mind. EMDR appears to facilitate the processing of…

Tags: Accelerated Information Processing, AIP, Emotional Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Treatment

PTSD treatments and the dodo bird

So why does the dodo bird win again? Benish suspects that attempts to identify unique aspects of any particular therapy create an artificial taxonomy that obscures some common factors that all effective treatments share. It calls to mind Harvard…

Tags: Dodo Bird Verdict, Efficacy, Meta-Analysis, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment

Pro and con -- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a complex method which combines elements of behavioral and client- centered approaches. Briefly, the procedure involves having the client concentrate intensely on the most distressing segment of…

Tags: Children, Commentary, Trauma, Treatment

Using EMDR to treat psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are paroxysmal episodes that mimic true epileptic seizures but are not brain-based. Rather, for many patients they are somatic representations of trauma. Until recently, little has been known about types of mental…

Tags: Epileptic Seizure, Treatment

EMDR in the treatment of traumatized refugees

Refugees, who suffer from PTSD because of long-term, and repeated traumatic experiences (Type II trauma), can be successfully treated with EMDR, under certain conditions and when it is embedded in a broader therapeutic context.

Tags: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Refugees, Treatment

Kaygi duyarligini azaltmada göz hareketieriyle duyarsizlastirma ve yeniden isleme (EMDR) tedavisi Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) approach in the treatment of anxiety sensitivity

Göz Hareketleriyle Duyarsızlaştırma ve Yeniden İşleme (EMDR) ve kontrollü araştırma destek olmak amacıyla Travma Sonrası Stres Bozukluğu (TSSB) ilk tedavilerden biridir artık giderek diğer psikolojik bozukluklar kadar uzatıldı. Bu çalışmada anksiyete…

Tags: Anxiety Sensitivity, Applied Muscle Relaxation, Empirical Study, Etiology, Follow-up Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Disorders, PTSD, Quantitative Study, Treatment

The URGES approach: Urge reduction by growing ego strength (URGES) for trauma/addiction treatment using alternate bilateral stimulation, hypnotherapy, ego state therapy and energy psychology

The URGES approach is a theory and protocol to treat trauma and addiction simultaneously. It combines hypnotherapy, ego state work, alternate bilateral stimulation, and energy psychology.It was developed to meet the need to address trauma without…

Tags: Addiction, Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Ego State Therapy, Energy Psychology, Hypnotherapy, Trauma, Treatment, URGES Approach

What is the scientific status of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy?

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has enjoyed rapid dissemination and adoption since being introduced by Christine Shapiro in the 1980s as a 1-session treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders.…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Athletic Performance, Drug Abuse, Personality Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment

PTSD treatment: The eyes may have it: Psychotherapists at the North Chicago VA Medical Center are finding success with an unusual treatment for severe psychological trauma

Post-traumatic stress disorder, like any other psychological trauma, is difficult to diagnose, and often, even more difficult to treat. Unlike setting a fractured bone or removing a ruptured appendix, there's just no physical way to cure this…

Tags: Emotional Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma, Treatment

Treating complex PTSD II: Stabilization techniques, therapeutic modalities

This video presents information on treating complex PTSD. Topics discussed include: Importance of Stabilization Work, Stabilization Techniques, Adjunctive Therapies in PTSD Treatment, EMDR as Resource Development, Psychodrama, Group Therapy,…

Tags: C-PTSD, Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex PTSD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stabilization, Therapeutic Modality, Treatment

Complex PTSD in children II: Therapeutic interventions

In this video series, Bessel van der Kolk and other clinicians from The Trauma Center, along with therapists Joyanna Silberg and Frances Waters, describe the assessment tools and therapeutic approaches that they have found most useful in working the…

Tags: C-PTSD, Children, Clinical Judgment, Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex PTSD, Intervention, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Therapeutic Processes, 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

Treating Phobias 1

In this program, four patients come to grips with their phobias by undergoing treatments involving behavioral therapy, flooding, and EMDR, eye-movement desensitization reprocessing--with impressive results.

Tags: Fear, Phobias, Psychosocial Factor, Treatment

Treatment effects of EMDR on risk to re-offend by sexual offenders traumatized as children

This study examined the effects of EMDR (Shapiro, 2002) and DeTUR (Popky, 2005) on three sexual offenders' risk to re-offend. Participants were given pretests and treatment outcomes were measured post treatment and 90 days thereafter using the IES-R…

Tags: Good Lives Model, Recidivism, Sex Offender, Sexual Deviance, Trauma, Treatment

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of chronic pain

Previous research has indicated that individuals with chronic pain who exhibit adaptive coping mechanisms are more likely to manage their pain effectively. If they experienced little success with pain management in the past, they are not likely to…

Tags: Biopsychosocial Models, Chronic Pain, Coping, Treatment

EMDR in der behandlung komplexer traumafolgestörungen EMDR in the treatment of complex trauma disorder

Mit den zunehmenden Forschungsergebnissen im Bereich psychotraumatischer Störungen sind auch neuere erfolgreiche Zugänge wie die EMDR-Methode entwickelt und anerkannt worden. Die von Dr. Francine Shapiro entwickelte und in ihrer Effektivität gut…

Tags: Complex Trauma, Treatment

A comparison of qEEG changes associated with trauma treatment using EMDR and talk therapy

Tags: QEEG Change, Trauma, Treatment

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

This chapter critically summarizes state-of-the-art knowledge relevant to the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment for traumatic stress. We review empirical evidence and pertinent meta-analyses since the first edition…

Tags: Exposure Therapy, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Traumatic Stress, Treatment, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye Movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): affective information processing of traumatic memories: A process analytic investigation

Tags: Traumatic Memories, Treatment

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