Successes and challenges of capacity building EMDR training programmes in humanitarian projects: A Lebanese experience

Generally, Capacity Building Training Programmes enable people, organizations, and communities to expand and strengthen their capabilities to develop, implement and maintain effective health sector services. Specifically, EMDR Training Programmes aim to provide psychotherapists with the knowledge and skills to utilize EMDR Therapy and the ability to integrate it into their clinical practice. Although each Training Programme should include the minimum requirements that are set by international EMDR organizations, they can offer different format options depending on the needs of the trainees, organizations, or the communities. EMDR Lebanon Project 2017-2019 is Capacity Building EMDR Training Programme that offered high-quality education and professional competencies in EMDR Therapy for psychotherapists that were majorly working in the humanitarian field. It is also a multi-layered training project for it helped to build a whole structure of EMDR professionals by provide training to EMDR consultants-in-training and trainers-in-training, both of which supervised the implementation of EMDR therapy on vulnerable population (i.e. refugees, poor or disadvantaged people) who needed mental health care in Lebanon. The format of the project was majorly designed by the funder, Trauma Aid Germany and the accredited EMDR trainer, Dr. Derek Farrell. The second EMDR Trainer, Mrs. Mona Zaghrout added some aspects to it. The project was managed and implemented by EMDR Lebanon Association with the support of the Mental Health Program in the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. The purpose of this presentation is (1) to present the format of the Capacity Building EMDR Training programme that crystalized in the 2 years implementation, (2) to highlight the successes reaped after implementing the whole project, and

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Lina Ibrahim

Ibrahim, L. (2020, January). Successes and challenges of capacity building EMDR training programmes in humanitarian projects: A Lebanese experience. Paper presented at the 4th EMDR Asia International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand