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In the News: November 27, 2023

EMDRIA members are featured in various articles and interviews discussing EMDR therapy in this edition of In the News.

Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) guideline for mental, neurological and substance use disorders (World Health Organization)

International guidance for the management of mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) conditions. Recommendations include EMDR therapy as treatment for conditions related to stress.

EMDR Therapy and Intergenerational Trauma

EMDRIA member Viviana Urdaneta discusses how EMDR therapy can help heal intergenerational trauma.

A pragmatic randomized controlled exploratory trial of the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for psychotic disorder (Journal of Psychiatric Research)

Study shows that EMDR can reduce the impact of traumatic events for patients with a psychotic disorder in a clinical setting in the UK.

EMDR Therapy for Religious and Spiritual Trauma

Listen to Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW, discuss adverse religious experiences and how they lead to belief systems that present as complex trauma.

EMDR Therapy and Ketamine

EMDRIA member Penny Monetti discusses EMDR therapy and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.

EMDRIA Members Respond: Community Cultural Wealth for Native American Heritage Month

EMDR therapists can celebrate Native American Heritage Month by intentionally using the lens of Community Cultural Wealth to identify internal and external resources in their clients.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for childhood sexual abuse memories in men who have sexually offended against children: Changes in perceptions of abuse and offending (Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice)

EMDR could potentially contribute to the reduction of re-offending among adult males who had sexually offended against children.

Pilot research study: Utilizing the EMDR integrative group treatment protocol online to help parents with the stresses of having a special needs child (Springer, 2023)

Six parents of special needs children were given assessments before treatment, immediately after and one-month after EMDR treatment.

The effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing-based online group counseling for university students: Psychological need satisfaction, psychological resilience, psychological well-being, and small ‘t’ trauma (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy)

This study highlights how trauma treatment like EMDR therapy can be useful for those without major trauma.

EMDR Therapy: Past, Present and Future

EMDR has evolved from a simple desensitization technique to broad-based psychotherapy approach. Discover EMDR therapy past, present, future.

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing as add-on treatment to enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy for patients with anorexia nervosa reporting childhood maltreatment: A quasi-experimental multicenter study (European Eating Disorders Review)

This study reports reduced eating disorder (ED) symptoms and dissociative symptoms and improved outcomes for patients with anorexia nervosa and childhood maltreatment when EMDR therapy was added to enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E).

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