Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource EMDR Collection Journal Author(s) dc_creator Asena Yurtsever Emre Konuk Tuba Akyüz Zeynep Zat Feryal Tüke Mustafa Çetinkaya Canan Savran Elan Shapiro Document # emdr_doc_ID 05437 Archived emdr_archived Yes Original Work Citation spec_citation Yurtsever, A., Konuk, E., Akyüz, T., Zat, Z., Tüke, F., Çetinkaya, M., Savran, C., & Shapiro, E. (2018, June). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00493">An eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) group Intervention for Syrian refugees with post-traumatic stress symptoms: Results of a randomized controlled trial.</a> Frontiers in Psychology, 9. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00493 Link to Document (e.g. DOI, PDF) emdr_title_link <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00493">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00493</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) group Intervention for Syrian refugees with post-traumatic stress symptoms: Results of a randomized controlled trial Description An account of the resource The number of refugees has increased signiﬁcantly over the past few years. PTSD and depression are among the most common mental health problems among refugees. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an effective treatment for PTSD, is usually administered individually. The availability of mental health resources would be greatly enhanced when EMDR can be delivered to groups. The EMDR G-TEP is a group protocol based on Early EMDR intervention protocols. There is clinical evidence and one ﬁeld study published on the effect of EMDR G-TEP and there is only one RCT published on the treatment of PTSD and depression in a refugee camp. The aim of our study was to investigate the efﬁcacy of EMDR G-TEP in treating post-trauma symptoms and depression and preventing the development of chronic PTSD among refugees living in a refugee camp. 47 adult participants with PTSD symptoms were randomly allocated to experimental (n = 18) and control (n = 29) groups. We measured Impact of Event Scale (IES-R), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) at pre-, post- and 4-week follow-up. Analysis of the results showed that the EMDR G-TEP group had signiﬁcantly lower PTSD and depression symptoms after intervention. The percentage of PTSD diagnosis decreased from 100 to 38.9% in the EMDR G-TEP group and was unchanged in the control group. Following the EMDR G-TEP intervention 61.1% of the experimental group no longer had a PTSD diagnosis; this decrease was maintained at 4 weeks follow-up. In the control group the percentage of people who no longer met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD was 10.3% post-test and 6.9% at 4 weeks follow-up. A signiﬁcant decrease in depression symptoms from pre-test levels was found in EMDR group but not in the control group follow up-test. This study indicated that EMDR G-TEP effectively reduced PTSD symptoms among refugees living in a camp, after two treatment sessions conducted over a period of 3 days. Further studies need to be performed using a larger number of participants, followed for a longer period of time and given more treatment sessions to strengthen our ﬁndings. Note: This article is part of the Research Topic - Present and Future of EMDR in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (2019). Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Frontiers in Psychology, 9. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00493 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018, June Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Journal Language A language of the resource English G-TEP Group Therapy Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Trauma War