Cost-effectiveness analysis of the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: Comparison of phase-based treatment and direct trauma-focused treatment (Frontiers in Psychology)

This study compared the cost-effectiveness of a phased-based treatment approach with direct trauma-focused treatment in patients with PTSD and a history of childhood abuse.

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EMDR Therapy, Eating Disorders and Sexual Abuse

Patty Cabot met EMDR Certified Therapist Leah Leatherbee, LCSW-R to help with her eating disorder, which was driven by years of sexual abuse.

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Exhausting, but necessary: The lived experience of participants in an intensive inpatient trauma treatment program (Frontiers in Psychology)

This article explores the patient experience of intensive trauma-focused treatment, including EMDR therapy in an intensive inpatient program.

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EMDR Therapy for PTSD

EMDR therapy for PTSD is well-researched. EMDR is widely considered an effective treatment for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Explained by Deaf Therapist

This brief video from the Deaf Counseling Center explains EMDR therapy in American Sign Language (ASL), by a Deaf therapist.

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Apples and oranges: PTSD patients and healthy individuals are not comparable in their subjective and physiological responding to emotion induction and bilateral stimulation (Frontiers in Psychology)

This study compared the response of patients with and without PTSD to bilateral stimulation in areas of emotion, cognition, and physiological response.

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EMDR Therapists: “Get Curious Not Cautious”

Dr. Annabel McGoldrick discusses best practices for EMDR trainees and therapists to gain confidence in using EMDR therapy by integrating IFS part work into self-reflection.

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The evolution and future of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (BJPsych Advances)

This article discusses EMDR therapy’s underlying model, adaptive information processing (AIP), treatment categories within EMDR, and EMDR training and credentialing.

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EMDR Therapy for Dissociation in Children & Adolescents

How can EMDR therapy help children & teens make sense of internal fragmentation of dissociation? Learn more in the Let’s Talk EMDR podcast.

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In the News: May 31, 2024

EMDRIA members and EMDR therapy are featured in various articles and interviews. Learn more in this edition of In the News.

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Mental health and conflict: A pilot of an online eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) intervention for forcibly displaced Syrian women (Frontiers in Public Health)

This study looked at the effects of EMDR therapy treatment for forcibly displaced Syrian women with PTSD delivered by forcibly displaced Syrian women EMDR therapists.

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Psychological intervention in women victims of childhood sexual abuse: A randomized controlled clinical trial comparing EMDR psychotherapy and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (Frontiers in Psychiatry)

This randomized controlled trial compared TF-CBT and EMDR therapy (G-TEP protocol) for victims of childhood sexual abuse.

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