EMDR Therapists Archives

Multiple session early psychological interventions for the prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)

The review found some beneficial effects early psychological interventions to prevent PTSD, certainty was low due to the risk of bias.

Evaluation of a trauma therapy programme within emergency service organizations (Occupational Medicine)

Occupational health practitioners in emergency services are exposed to higher levels of physical/psychological trauma & need trauma therapy.

Increase of precuneus metabolism correlates with reduction of PTSD symptoms after EMDR therapy in military veterans: an 18F-FDG PET study during virtual reality exposure to war (European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging)

Study to identify, after EMDR therapy, regions of brain metabolism that evolve during stress exposure of a war scene in veterans with PTSD.

A field study on the EMDR integrative group treatment protocol for ongoing traumatic stress provided to adolescent Eritrean refugees living in Ethiopia (Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal)

EMDR-integrative group treatment protocol for ongoing traumatic stress (EMDR-IGTP-OTS) for reducing PTSD in Eritrean adolescent refugees.

Do adjuvant interventions improve treatment outcome in adult patients with posttraumatic stress disorder receiving trauma-focused psychotherapy? A systematic review (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

Systematic review that aims to assess whether adjuvant interventions improve outcomes among adult PTSD patients receiving trauma focused psychotherapy (TF-PT).

Research Review: Psychological and psychosocial treatments for children and young people with post-traumatic stress disorder: a network meta-analysis (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)

Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy appears to be most effective for PTSD in youth. EMDR is effective but to a lesser extent.

Poor quality in systematic reviews on PTSD and EMDR – an examination of search methodology and reporting (Frontiers in Psychology)

This study evaluated the quality of systematic reviews by analyzing how they perform and report, using EMDR therapy as an example.

PTSD, immunoglobulins, and cortisol changes after the provision of the EMDR – PRECI to females patients with cancer-related PTSD diagnosis (American Journal of Applied Psychology)

This study posited that EMDR-PRECI could be an efficient/effective part of a psychosocial approach to reduce cancer-related PTSD symptoms.

In the News: July 1, 2019

EMDR therapy is featured in Veterans Affair blog telling the story of one veteran. Learn more in this edition of In the News.

Early intervention with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy to reduce the severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms in recent rape victims: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

This RCT examines the efficacy of early EMDR therapy aimed to reduce the severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms in victims of recent rape.

Research Corner | Go With That Magazine™️ Issue June 2019

This research corner contribution by EMDRIA member Andrew Leeds, Ph.D. is from the June 2019 Go With That Magazine™️ issue “Changing Lives.”

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment associated with parent management training (PMT) for the acute symptoms in a patient with PANDAS syndrome: a case report (Italian Journal of Pediatrics)

Results indicate the possibility of improving the treatment outcomes of patients with PANDAS by a combining antibiotic and EMDR therapies.

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