Attachment Archives

Family therapy and EMDR after child abuse and neglect: Moderating effects of child attachment style and PTSD symptoms on treatment outcome (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

This study examined whether attachment style and PTSD symptoms acted as moderators for treatment outcomes of a new integrative treatment model for trauma and attachment in which family therapy is combined with EMDR.

Super Resourcing: An EMDR Strategy for Healing Attachment Trauma

Discover Super Resourcing, an EMDR approach integrating AIP, ego states, and attachment theory for rapid, gentle trauma healing.

Engaging Teens’ Protective Parts to Reprocess Traumatic Memories

Learn EMDR strategies to engage protective parts in teens with dissociation, fostering teamwork, safety, and attachment repair.

EMDR, Generational Trauma and Criminal Recidivism: Toward Safer Communities

Explore how EMDR in prisons addresses developmental trauma and reduces recidivism by healing early attachment wounds.

Attachment Considerations and Interventions for Each Phase of EMDR

Gain practical EMDR skills to recognize and treat attachment trauma, with phase-by-phase strategies for effective clinical intervention.

Trauma, Attachment and Formative Experience: An EMDR Paradigm Shift?

Discover attachment-informed EMDR using creative interweaves, case structure, and early-life targeting to transform formative patterns.

Integrative eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and family therapy model for treating attachment trauma: Possibilities in the New Zealand context (Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologist)

This article presents an integrative approach for attachment trauma using EMDR therapy components.

Foundations of the Positive Affect Tolerance Protocol: The Central Role of Interpersonal Positive Affect in Attachment and Self-Regulation (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Research has highlighted the negative effects of early neglect and abuse on the development of emotional self-regulation and attachment.

EMDR Therapy, Complex Trauma and PTSD

Professor Paul W. Miller, M.D. discusses how complex trauma can impact someone, whether PTSD is always a given, and how EMDR can improve their lives – even patients with Schizophrenia.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy and Change in Attachment Security: A Pilot Study (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This study explores changes in attachment security in a sample of adults who received EMDR therapy for PTSD/C-PTSD.

EMDR Therapy, Men and Attachment Disorders

EMDR therapist and Consultant-in-Training Marcken Volmy, LMHC, LPC, NCC discusses attachment disorders in men and how they can break the macho line of thought about therapy.

Testing an attachment- and trauma-informed intervention approach for parents and young children after interparental violence: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial (BMC Trials)

Effective treatment combinations for traumatized parents and their young children after interparental violence.

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