In the News
Texas-based health news press releases announce “Hidalgo County Mental Health Professionals Enhance Skills with New Wellness Techniques.” The releases share the county is funding training focused on EMDR therapy for 50 mental health professionals to help low-income residents and students on local campuses.
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EMDRIA member Peter Pruyn writes “Treating Menstrual Pain with EMDR: Can Releasing Emotional Pain Lessen Physical Pain?” in Medium. This article presents a transparent overview of what an EMDR reprocessing session looks like.
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EMDR is highlighted in the National Alliance on Mental Illness blog in “How EMDR Healed My Trauma,” a short personal reflection by a musician who experienced peace through EMDR therapy.
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In the article “Can Trauma Therapies Unlock the Prison of Psychosis?” EMDR is referenced as an effective treatment for psychosis and cites a recent research article by Hardy, et al. (2023) titled “Trauma therapies for psychosis: A state-of-the-art review” in which EMDR therapy is reviewed as a promising trauma-focused treatment for psychosis.
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Mental Health First Aid suggests EMDR therapy as a top treatment in “How to Take Care of Yourself When the World’s on Fire.”
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EMDRIA member Brittany Johnson, LMHC discusses EMDR training in the news update “Therapy Method Gaining Popularity to be taught in Morehead.” The update discusses a partnership with Kentucky-based university and EMDR trainer EMDR Consulting to help “spread awareness… [and] train as much of the state as possible because EMDR has been considered the golden standard for treating trauma…”
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EMDR therapy is a featured trauma therapy for children in The Conversation article “What is Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing? And Can EMDR Help Children Recover From Trauma?”
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Florida Atlantic University Researchers discussed their pilot study findings about how EMDR therapy can treat addictions in this Neurosciencenews.com article. Published by the Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, the study, “Feasibility and Efficacy of Addiction-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing in Adults with Substance Use Disorder,” focused on cravings, perseverative thoughts (repetitive negative thinking), and irrational cognitions about the substance of choice. For the study, researchers tested Addiction-focused EMDR with and without cognitive behavioral therapy, a psycho-social intervention aimed to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety disorders.
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- Learn more about EMDR at the EMDRIA Library
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- Search for an EMDR Training Provider
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- Learn more about EMDRIA membership
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Date
November 27, 2023
