Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Trauma-centered psychotherapy in patients with refugee background (Psychotherapeut)

Intercultural trauma-centered psychotherapy using EMDR with professionally trained interpreter in refugee and asylum seeker patients.

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Early Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) intervention in a disaster mental health care context (Psychology, Health & Medicine)

This study suggest that EMDR is a viable treatment in response to a disaster crisis in reducing psychological distress of individuals.

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Meta-Analysis of Trauma-Focused Therapies for Treating the Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (American Counseling Association)

Meta-analysis of 46 studies published between 1997 and 2015 comparing trauma-focused therapies for the treatment of PTSD.

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Exploring expectation effects in EMDR: Does prior treatment knowledge affect the degrading effects of eye movements on memories? (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

Study designed to test whether expectations about the working mechanism of EMDR would alter the memory attenuating effects of eye movements.

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Bilateral alternating auditory stimulations facilitate fear extinction and retrieval (Frontiers in Psychology)

An animal model of fear recovery showed that BLS facilitate fear extinction and fear extinction retrieval, can this work in humans too?

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A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for adult refugees and asylum seekers (Journal of Mental Health)

Summary of current literature on psychosocial interventions for refugee populations experiencing PTSD, depressive or anxiety symptoms.

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Effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in German Armed Forces Soldiers With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Under Routine Inpatient Care Conditions (Military Medicine)

Comparison of EMDR vs. wait-list. Effect sizes of EMDR were measured for PTSD, symptoms of depression, and general mental health.

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Psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents after man-made and natural disasters: A meta-analysis and systematic review (Psychological Medicine)

This meta-analytic review investigates specific psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents after man-made and natural disasters.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy versus supportive therapy in affective relapse prevention in bipolar patients with a history of trauma: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (Trials)

Study on whether a specific EMDR protocol for patients with bipolar disorder is effective in reducing affective episodes.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (APA, 2017)

This chapter outlines eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy and appears the Handbook of Trauma Psychology. 

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in a child and an adolescent with mild to borderline intellectual disability: A multiple baseline across subjects study (Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities)

Study results support EMDR as an effective treatment for PTSD in children and adolescents with mild to borderline intellectual disability.

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Psychological Interventions for Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Psychosis: A Systematic Review of Outcomes (Frontiers in Psychology)

The systematic review examines literature on the use of psychological treatments targeting PTS symptoms in those with a psychotic disorder.

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