Intensive trauma-focused therapy with victims of crime (European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation)
We conducted an open trial of trauma-focused intensive therapy featuring progressive counting (PC) and EMDR for 61 victims of crime.
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Good vibrations: Bilateral tactile stimulation decreases startle magnitude during negative imagination and increases skin conductance response for positive imagination in an affective startle reflex paradigm (European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation)
Testing the physiological and psychological mechanisms of bilateral stimuli while recalling traumatic memories in healthy subjects.
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Positive side effects in trauma-focusing PTSD treatment: Reduction of attendant symptoms and enhancement of affective and structural regulation (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy)
Trauma-focusing treatments such as EMDR are highly effective in reducing the core symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Australian guidelines for the prevention and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: Updates in the third edition (Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry)
Australian guidelines for the prevention and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: Updates in the third edition This paper describes the development of the third…
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The effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing toward adults with major depressive disorder: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (Frontiers in Psychiatry)
A systematic search was carried out for RCT comparing EMDR with a control condition group in major depressive disorder patients.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 Emergency and Remote Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Group Therapy With Adolescents and Young Adults: Overcoming Lockdown With the Butterfly Hug (Frontiers in Psychology)
This study measured stress in adolescents following a trauma-focused EMDR psychotherapeutic group intervention done remotely during COVID-19.
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Pairing ketamine with EMDR & other therapy methods (Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers)
Steve Thayer, Reid Robison & Bob Mcnutt, discuss how ketamine is combined with a variety of psychotherapy modalities, particularly EMDR.
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EMDR therapy for PTSD symptoms in patients with mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning and comorbid psychotic disorder: A case series (Research in Developmental Disabilities)
Effectiveness of EMDR therapy for patients with mild intellectual or borderline intellectual functioning, PTSD & psychotic disorder.
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Differential effects of comorbid psychiatric disorders on treatment outcome in posttraumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma (Journal of Clinical Medicine)
This study examined the impact of comorbidities on the outcome of two specific PTSD treatments: either EMDR or imagery rescripting (IR).
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Does trauma-focused psychotherapy change the brain? A systematic review of neural correlates of therapeutic gains in PTSD (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)
A systematic literature search of studies employing structural or functional MRI measurements before & after treatment of patients with PTSD.
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A meta-analysis of dropout from evidence-based psychological treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and young people (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)
Estimate the prevalence of dropout in children and young people receiving a psychological therapy for PTSD as part of an RCT.
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EMDR as a strategic intervention in couples’ therapy (Texas Wesleyan University, 2021)
Integrating EMDR with Strategic Family Therapy (SFT) for couple’s marital satisfaction levels when one spouse has experienced trauma.
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