A Word from the President: Get to Know the Board of Directors

Carol Miles, EMDRIA Board President asks each member of the EMDRIA Board of Directors for a childhood story.

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Beginner’s Mind

Executive Director Michael Bowers shares how EMDRIA is focused on learning, growing, and maintaining a beginner’s mind.

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Exploring the Intersection of EMDR and Play Therapy

EMDRIA member Ann Beckley-Forest explores the Intersection of EMDR Therapy and Play Therapy.

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Changing negative autobiographical memories in the lab: A comparison of three eye-movement tasks (Memory)

Study testing if eye-movement tasks that load working memory while thinking of a memory reduces the emotionality/vividness of this memory.

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The Effect of EMDR Versus Guided Imagery on Insomnia Severity in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This RCT study compared the effect of EMDR therapy versus guided imagery on insomnia severity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

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The Effect of EMDR on Childbirth Anxiety of Women With Previous Stillbirth (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Having an unpleasant experience of previous childbirth can cause anxiety and fear of labor in women during the next childbirth.

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Flash Technique Group Protocol for Highly Dissociative Clients in a Homeless Shelter: A Clinical Report (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

The Flash Technique is a new protocol for use in the preparation phase of EMDR to reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories.

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Developing the Interrater Reliability of the Modified EMDR Fidelity Checklist (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

While EMDR treatment fidelity measures have been cited in past research, none have been subject to any empirical investigation of reliability.

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The Applicability and Effect of EMDR in a Patient With a Mild Stage of Alzheimer’s Disease (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Clinical case study of a woman who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease–clinical usefulness of EMDR.

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How We Do What We Do: The Therapist, EMDR, and Treatment of Complex Trauma (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Strategies for working with patients who present with the specific psychological deficits associated with complex trauma.

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Synthesis and Realization (Personification and Presentification): The Psychological Process of Integration of Traumatic Memories in EMDR Psychotherapy (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Memories are successfully integrated in a narrative—stored in an adaptive memory network—with synthesis of the different elements.

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Psychological and brain connectivity changes following trauma-focused CBT and EMDR treatment in single-episode PTSD patients (Frontiers in Psychology)

Neuroimaging data suggest a similar clinical improvement following EMDR and TF-CBT, with changes of bilateral temporal pole connectivity.

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