Learning EMDR in Uganda: An experiment in cross-cultural collaboration

This chapter considers some of the obstacles to integrated learning that arise when experts in the theory and treatment of psychological trauma attempt to share their skills with colleagues practicing in another country. Such obstacles loom especially large in countries and regions burdened with poverty, histories of civil unrest, corruption and inadequate infrastructure. Our focus will be on a specific project, one of collaboration between the Uganda Counselling Association and the Trauma Studies Center of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (which is based in New York City). The project’s primary goal was to introduce a model of EMDR training that would support enduring commitment to and use of EMDR treatment by clinicians who are culturally sensitive to the ethnic groups they serve, and especially by clinicians who are themselves members of the ethnic group they serve.

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Rosemary Masters
Elizabeth McConnell
Josie Juhasz

Masters, R., McConnell, E., & Juhasz, J. (2017). Learning EMDR in Uganda: An experiment in cross-cultural collaboration. In M. Nickerson's (Ed.), Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally-Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy: Innovative Strategies and Protocols (pp. 305-322). New York, NY: Springer Publishing