Children Archives

Guidelines for the Evaluation and Treatment of Dissociative Symptoms in Children and Adolescents (International Society for the Study of Dissociation)

Practical guide to the management of child and adolescent patients with dissociative identity disorder based on current scientific knowledge & informed clinical practice.

A controlled study of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for boys with conduct problems (Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma)

We suggest that trauma contributes to conduct problems. EMDR was used as a trauma treatment for boys with conduct issues with good results.

Brief-treatment for elementary school children with disaster-related PTSD: A field study (Journal of Clinical Psychology)

This controlled study evaluated the effectiveness of brief intervention for disaster-related PTSD in children.

Light in the Heart of Darkness: EMDR and the Treatment of War and Terrorism Survivors (W. W. Norton, 2001)

Clinicians responding to psychological aftermath of man’s inhumanity to man—stories of school violence, refugees, soldiers, etc.—with EMDR.

Treating phobic children: Effects of EMDR versus exposure (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)

This study examined the efficacy of EMDR and exposure in the treatment of a twenty-six spider phobic children.

A single session EMDR study with twenty traumatized children and adolescents (Traumatology)

Twenty children and adolescents were treated for a single traumatic memory with a single session of EMDR therapy.

Dissociation in children and adolescents: A developmental perspective (Guilford Press, 1997)

This book examines the origins and course of normal and pathological dissociation in children and adolescents.

An auditory variant of eye movement desensitization in a case of childhood post-traumatic stress disorder (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)

A case study documenting the success of a child-appropriate variant of eye movement desensitization (EMD) in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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