Eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) therapy as a rapid therapeutic method for psychological trauma and other mental health disorders: A critical review (International Journal for Psychotherapy in Africa)
This paper examines the effect of EMDR therapy as a rapid therapeutic method for the treatment of psychological trauma.
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EMDR Therapy and Stress Resilience
Can EMDR therapy help us become more resilient when facing stress and trauma? Rachael Miller, LCPC, NCC weighs in.
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Psychological interventions to pregnancy-related complications in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: A scoping review (BMC Psychiatry)
This review investigated pregnancy-related complications and PTSD and summarized effective psychological interventions for pregnancy-related PTSD symptoms.
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Randomized trial on the effects of an EMDR intervention on traumatic and obsessive symptoms during the COVID-19 quarantine: A psychometric study (Frontiers in Psychiatry)
This randomized controlled trial investigated body perception, disgust, emotions of guilt and shame, mental contamination, posttraumatic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms before and after EMDR intervention.
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A network meta-analysis of psychological interventions for children and adolescents after natural and man-made disasters (BMC Psychiatry)
This review used a meta-analysis approach to compare and rank psychological interventions for PTSD and depression in children and adolescents after exposure to natural and man-made disasters.
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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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Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index (Psychotherapy Research)
This study explores the option of machine learning models to recommend types of PTSD treatment to patients based on potential individual differences, and highlights the need for external validation of machine learning models.
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Can EMDR complement Adlerian play therapy? (The Journal of Individual Psychology)
“This article provides an overview of the underpinnings of Adlerian theory and the adaptive information-processing model and a description of similarities and differences.”
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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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