Depression Archives

Mixed Methods Evaluation of EMDR for Treating Female Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence (Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation)

This study assessed the efficacy of EMDR for women who experienced trauma due to sexual or domestic violence.

Treating repetitive suicidal intrusions using eye movements: Study protocol for a multicenter randomized clinical trial (BMC Psychiatry)

Study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an Eye Movement Dual Task (EMDT) intervention targeting suicidal imagery in depressed patients.

The effect of the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing intervention on anxiety and depression among patients undergoing hemodialysis: A randomized controlled trial (Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)

Nurses can use EMDR intervention in clinical practice with psychotropic drugs to reduce depression/anxiety in patients undergoing dialysis.

Clinical efficacy of trauma-focused psychotherapies in treatment-resistant depression (TRD) in-patients. A randomized, controlled pilot-study (Psychiatry Research)

Pilot trial evaluated whether trauma-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy (TF-CBT) or EMDR can help treatment-resistant depression patients.

Treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder in civilian populations (Current Psychiatry Reports)

This review examines treatment of PTSD and its symptom clusters exclusively in civilian populations, which have been historically under-examined in the literature.

Randomized controlled trial on the EMDR integrative group treatment protocol for ongoing traumatic stress with adolescents and young adults patients with cancer (American Journal of Applied Psychology)

EMDR-Integrative Group Treatment Protocol for Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-IGTP-OTS) for cancer stress in adolescents/young adults.

Add-on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for adults with posttraumatic stress disorder who failed to respond to initial antidepressant pharmacotherapy (Journal of Korean Medical Science)

Efficacy of EMDR therapy among adults with PTSD who continued to be symptomatic after more than 12 weeks of initial antidepressant treatment.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing versus treatment as usual in the treatment of depression: A randomized-controlled trial (Frontiers of Psychology)

Thirty patients with depression were treated to test whether EMDR plus treatment as usual (TAU) would achieve better results than TAU only.

Differential Effects of an Evolutionary-Based EMDR Therapy on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Case Series Study (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Treating depression downhill (TDD) was designed as a specific therapy for depression as a syndrome and later integrated with EMDR.

A non-randomized controlled trial of EMDR on affective symptoms in patients with glioblastoma multiforme (Frontiers in Psychiatry)

EMDR therapy on anxiety, depression and sense of coherence in patients with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive brain cancer.

Neurocognitive functioning of the course of trauma-focused psychotherapy for PTSD: Changes in verbal memory and executive functioning (British Journal of Clinical Psychology)

This study suggests that neurocognitive deficits in PTSD can improve over the course of trauma-focused psychotherapy.

EMDR Therapy for an Elderly Woman With Depression, Traumatic Memories, and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia: A Case Study (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Application of EMDR therapy in an 83-year-old White woman with preexisting diagnoses of Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson’s disease dementia.

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