Flip the Script: Messaging to Heal the Parent-Child Connection

Parent-child bonds are important for healing. Learn how to foster a supportive atmosphere and enhance a child’s self-perception.

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Perspectives in Practice: Navigating the Child Welfare System as an EMDR Therapist

Treating children in a child welfare system can complicate EMDR treatment. Learn skills to help this population.

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Parents as Partners: Enhancing Co-Regulation and Coherence through an Integration of Play Therapy and EMDR

Parents are important partners for healing childhood trauma. Discover the transformative role of co-regulation.

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Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in child victims of domestic violence (Iranian Journal of Psychiatry)

Both CBT and EMDR can help children to greatly recover from the outcomes of domestic violence in comparison with control group.

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The Sleeping Dogs Method to Overcome Children’s Resistance to EMDR Therapy: A Case Series (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Three case descriptions to demonstrate use of “Sleeping Dogs” method to engage children who initially refused to participate in EMDR therapy.

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EMDR Intervention for a 17-Month-Old Child to Treat Attachment Trauma: Clinical Case Presentation (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Effectiveness of treating a 17-month-old with PTSD and a disrupted secure attachment utilizing EMDR and integrative family therapy approach.

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An Integrative EMDR and Family Therapy Model for Treating Attachment Trauma in Children: A Case Series (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Effectiveness of an integrative EMDR and family therapy model, specifically the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol for Children (IATP-C).

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Intervening in the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma by Targeting Maternal Emotional Dysregulation With EMDR Therapy (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Studies show the relationship of child & caregivers is critical for a child’s brain function and intergenerational transmission of attachment.

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Cathy Schweitzer discusses family therapy, attachment, and EMDR (Attachment Theory in Action Podcast)

An EMDR Certified Therapist discusses EMDR and attachment in the Attachment Theory in Action podcast with Karen Doyle Buckwalter.

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EMDR in Family Systems: An Integrated Approach to Healing Trauma (Routledge, 2018)

EMDR in Family Systems describes the EMDR process and a step-by-step approach to integrating EMDR with other therapeutic tools.

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Kronos Abuses His Son: A Case Study of Severe Interpersonal Trauma, Dissociation, and Survival in Adolescence (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Case conceptualization, therapeutic intervention, and therapeutic progress of a hospitalized adolescent with PTSD following parental abuse.

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Conceptualization of Parenting Stress in the Context of EMDR Therapy (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

The AIP model hypothesizes that chronic parenting stress may result from past distressing parental experiences not adaptively processed.

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