EMDR Early Intervention Archives

Social Change, Little “D” Disasters & Why EEI Protocols are Essential to Everyone’s Practice

EMDR Early Intervention (EEI) can be used for “little d” disasters that affect communities (community violence, hate crimes, toxic pollutants, etc.)

First Responder Cumulative Traumatic Stress Exposure

First responders (Police Officers, Fire Fighters, 911-Dispatchers, EMS) has a unique stressors. Learn how to help the helpers.

Questions and Cautions for Deployment of EMDR EIs with First Responders & Public Safety Personnel

Delve beyond psychotherapy when aiding First Responders. What crucial questions and policies must EMDR therapists grasp?

Anyone Can Do Something for 15 Minutes…Even Self-care!

Self-Care for responders: Answering the call to help comes with a cost. Dive into the balancing act mental health responders face.

Emergency room intervention to prevent post concussion-like symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder. A pilot randomized controlled study of a brief eye movement desensitization and reprocessing intervention versus reassurance or usual care (Journal of Psychiatric Research)

The first randomized controlled trial that shows that a short EMDR intervention is feasible & potentially effective in the context of the ER.

Early EMDR intervention following intense rocket attacks on a town: A randomized clinical trial (Clinical Neuropsychiatry)

Study shows evidence on the efficacy of Early EMDR Intervention for reducing post-traumatic stress and depression among victims of hostility.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing early intervention (EMDR EI)

This white paper is an introduction to EMDR Early Intervention with background information and ideas for future research directions.

EMDR Early Intervention and Crisis Response: Researcher’s Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help EMDR clinicians conduct research in disaster situations, or in clinical situations such as crises clinics, emergency rooms, or rape treatment centers.

EMDR, Community Psychology, and Innovative Applications of a Trauma Recovery Network as a Tool for Social Change (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

The need and ways to implement novel applications of EMDR interventions (EEIs) at the community level for marginalized groups.

Early Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) intervention in a disaster mental health care context (Psychology, Health & Medicine)

This study suggest that EMDR is a viable treatment in response to a disaster crisis in reducing psychological distress of individuals.

Psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents after man-made and natural disasters: A meta-analysis and systematic review (Psychological Medicine)

This meta-analytic review investigates specific psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents after man-made and natural disasters.

Early psychological preventive intervention for workplace violence: A randomized controlled explorative and comparative study between EMDR-Recent Event and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (Issues in Mental Health Nursing)

This RCT investigated the efficacy of an early psychological intervention called EMDR-RE compared to Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.

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