Resilience and family

We will discuss the place of resilience when confronting traumatic situations, such as domestic violence behaviors, serious illness, and the Covid epidemic. Working with children and their families has taught us the importance of individual and/or relational resiliencies in EMDR therapy. The activation of individual resiliencies through the family, parental or sibling bond will help to potentiate the EMDR work with a child and in turn this EMDR work will promote the development of these resiliencies. In this dynamic loop, resilience is an essential factor in the stabilization, preparation and maintenance of the child in his or her window of tolerance; it is thus a crucial element in emotional regulation. The announcement of a diagnosis of a serious illness, such as cancer, is a tsunami for the patient as well as for those around him. Each person learns to develop ways to adapt to the situation in which the illness takes a new and unwanted place in the family. How does everyone integrate this new member into the family nucleus? The Covid pandemic shook up family ties in a brutal way. During the first months, death was dehumanized. The relationship between the patient and his family was built on a virtual level so that the last attachment could be maintained. Through this workshop, we will tell you about the lives of these families turned upside down by violence, illness, pandemic where resilience and EMDR therapy were a winning combination.

Conference

English

Michel Silvestre
Vaness V. Grandjean

Silvestre, M., &  Grandjean, V. (2022, June). Resilence and family. Presentation at the 23rd EMDR Europe Conference, Valencia, Spain