英語タイトルの日本語Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for children and family: Assessment and planning EMDR therapy for parents
Description
子どもが心理的症状や行動上の問題から回復するためには、健全な親子関係が存在することが不可欠である。親が子どもの否定的な感情や身体感覚を受け入れ、認証する関係性が、子どもの情動調整能力――すなわち恐怖や不安をコントロールする力――の回復や発達を可能にする。親が熱心に子育てをしていたとしても、否定的な感情や身体感覚を認証できない場合には、解離した自我状態を抱えている可能性がある。 しかしながら、アセスメントおよび治療計画の段階では、親が通常の社会的機能を果たしているか（すなわち「親」は「患者」ではない）を検討することが重要である。親が一定の社会的機能を維持していたとしても、家族関係の中で活性化される否定的な感情や身体感覚をうまく扱えない場合には、解離した自我状態を統合することで親子関係の回復が可能となる。 本論文では、子どもの行動によって親に生じる否定的な感情や身体感覚をEMDR療法のターゲットとすることが、親の解離状態に対処する上で有効である可能性を示している。
In order for a child to recover from psychological symptoms or behavioral problems, a healthy parent-child relationship must exist. The relationship in which parents validate their child's negative emotions and somatic sensations is required to allow for the recovery or development of the child's emotional regulation, that is, the ability to manage one's fear and anxiety. The parent may have had dissociative ego states, when he/she cannot validate his/her child's negative emotions and somatic sensations even if he/she is rearing his/her child with enthusiasm. However, it is import to examine that the parent shows the normal social function (the "parent" is not "a patient') at the assessment and planning phases. The parent-child relationship can be recovered through the integration of the dissociative ego states in the parent who cannot manage the negative emotions and somatic sensations activated in the family relationship even if the parent maintains certain level of normal social function. This paper shows that using negative emotions and somatic sensations caused by a child's behaviors in the parent as the target of the EMDR therapy could be useful to deal with the parent's dissociative states.
In order for a child to recover from psychological symptoms or behavioral problems, a healthy parent-child relationship must exist. The relationship in which parents validate their child's negative emotions and somatic sensations is required to allow for the recovery or development of the child's emotional regulation, that is, the ability to manage one's fear and anxiety. The parent may have had dissociative ego states, when he/she cannot validate his/her child's negative emotions and somatic sensations even if he/she is rearing his/her child with enthusiasm. However, it is import to examine that the parent shows the normal social function (the "parent" is not "a patient') at the assessment and planning phases. The parent-child relationship can be recovered through the integration of the dissociative ego states in the parent who cannot manage the negative emotions and somatic sensations activated in the family relationship even if the parent maintains certain level of normal social function. This paper shows that using negative emotions and somatic sensations caused by a child's behaviors in the parent as the target of the EMDR therapy could be useful to deal with the parent's dissociative states.
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Journal
Language
Japanese
Original Work Citation
Okawara, M. (2017, May). [Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for children and family: Assessment and planning EMDR therapy for parents]. Japanese Journal of EMDR Research and Practice, 9(1), 5-12. Japanese
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Citation
“英語タイトルの日本語Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for children and family: Assessment and planning EMDR therapy for parents,” Francine Shapiro Legacy Library, accessed July 14, 2026, https://francineshapirolibrary.omeka.net/items/show/24627.