Efficacy Archives

Trauma resolution: A healing journey through EMDR therapy (Springer, 2024)

This chapter on EMDR therapy appears in an edited book offering an integrative and evidence-based practice approach to training in psychotherapy, examining common factors across different therapeutic models seen through an attachment theory lens.

The efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment for depression: A meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials (Journal of Clinical Medicine)

This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to evaluate the efficacy of EMDR in treating depression and to identify the variables influencing its effectiveness.

Factors influencing quality of processing in EMDR therapy (Frontiers in Psychology)

This study presents a preliminary analysis of a new instrument oriented at the analysis of processing in EMDR trauma therapy, the Processing Difficulties Scale (PDS).

Eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) therapy as a rapid therapeutic method for psychological trauma and other mental health disorders: A critical review (International Journal for Psychotherapy in Africa)

This paper examines the effect of EMDR therapy as a rapid therapeutic method for the treatment of psychological trauma.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: Comparison of phase-based treatment and direct trauma-focused treatment (Frontiers in Psychology)

This study compared the cost-effectiveness of a phased-based treatment approach with direct trauma-focused treatment in patients with PTSD and a history of childhood abuse.

The evolution and future of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (BJPsych Advances)

This article discusses EMDR therapy’s underlying model, adaptive information processing (AIP), treatment categories within EMDR, and EMDR training and credentialing.

Efficacy of EMDR in Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Associated Cognitive-Emotional Features (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Efficacy of EMDR in body dysmorphic disorder symptoms and features like appearance-based rejection sensitivity, body shame, & self-compassion.

The Effectiveness and Tolerability of an Intensive Outpatient Trauma Treatment Program for Adolescents With PTSD (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Efficacy of outpatient trauma treatment program using prolonged exposure (PE) and EMDR for adolescents with PTSD.

Eye movement intervention facilitates concurrent perception and memory processing (Cerebral Cortex)

This article utilized EEG scans to look at neural activity during eye movements and suggested information facilitation is important in EMDR therapy.

Revisiting eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and discussion of the American Psychological Association’s 2017 recommendations (Cureus)

EMDR therapy versus narrative therapy and skills training for PTSD.

Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (Routledge, 2024)

This chapter illustrates similarities in EMDR and memory reconsolidation, in Unlocking the emotional brain: Memory reconsolidation and the psychotherapy of transformational change.

Psychotherapies at a glance: Consensus guideline-recommended psychotherapies for adults with psychiatric disorders (The American Journal of Psychotherapy)

A psychotherapy tool (Psychotherapies-at-a-Glance) that evaluates and compares evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) including EMDR therapy for teaching, treatment planning, and client discourse.

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