PTSD Archives

Big T and Little T: How EMDR Therapy Can Heal All Traumas

Meet the authors of “Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, The Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal,” Dr. Deborah Korn and Michael Baldwin, an EMDR therapist and EMDR client.

The feasibility of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for older adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comorbid psychiatric and somatic disorder (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy)

EMDR therapy showed treatment effect on PTSD severity in older adults unrelated to presence of comorbid psychiatric and somatic disorders.

Building a national EMDR Treatment Program to Treat Veteran PTSD

Two of this article’s authors founded The Headstrong Project, a clinical treatment program using EMDR to treat veteran PTSD.

Making Sense of Offense Related Trauma: Exploring Two Patients’ Lived Experience (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This research explores offense-related trauma and EMDR with two patients who perpetrated violence offenses.

Current treatments of post-traumatic stress disorder and amygdala ablation as a potential cutting-edge therapy in its refractory cases (Cureus)

The purpose of this article is to highlight the use of extremely selective laser ablation of the amygdala-hippocampal unit as a successful surgical intervention for medically unresponsive PTSD.

Effects of intensive trauma-focused treatment of individuals with both post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

This study’s purpose was to determine the effects of an intensive trauma-focused treatment program (EMDR and prolonged exposure) for patients with PTSD and borderline personality disorder.

Safety, feasibility, and efficacy of EMDR Therapy in adults with PTSD and mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning and mental health problems: A multiple baseline study (Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities)

EMDR therapy was found to be safe, feasible, and (potentially) efficacious in decreasing PTSD symptoms for adults with MID-BIF.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for post-stroke post-traumatic stress disorder: Case report using the three-phase approach (Brain Injury)

The current study reports on the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of EMDR therapy for PTSD subsequent to a pontine stroke.

Intensive outpatient treatment for PTSD: an open trial combining prolonged exposure therapy, EMDR, and physical activity (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

The aim of the study was to test the effectiveness of an eight-day (two-week) intensive treatment for PTSD within a public health care setting.

Trauma-focused therapies for post-traumatic stress in psychosis: Study protocol for the RE.PROCESS randomized controlled trial (BMC Trials)

The first RCT to compare the effects of cognitive restructuring (CR), prolonged exposure (PE), and EMDR in individuals with psychosis & PTSD.

Implementation of evidence-based treatment for PTSD in Norway: Clinical outcomes and impact of probable complex PTSD (European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2022)

Effectiveness of Cognitive therapy for PTSD and EMDR in Norwegian outpatient mental health clinics for adults.

The effect of the online eye movement desensitization and reprocessing early intervention protocol (EMDR R-TEP) for the risk groups with post-traumatic stress symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic (Frontiers in Psychology)

Research on the effect of online EMDR Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol for first responders and those effected by COVID-19.

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