PTSD Archives

Post-traumatic stress disorder among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: Effectiveness of an eye movement desensitization and reprocessing intervention protocol (Frontiers in Psychology)

Study aimed at investigating PTSD in a sample of Italian healthcare workers during COVID-19 and the effectiveness of the EMDR therapy.

Feasibility of EMDR in older adults with PTSD to reduce frailty and improve quality of life (Clinical Gerontologist)

PTSD after exposure to multiple (childhood) traumas is associated with accelerated aging and high psychiatric and somatic comorbidity.

Effectiveness of time-limited eye movement desensitization reprocessing therapy for parents of children with a rare life-limiting illness: A randomized clinical trial (BMC Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases)

EMDR reduces PTSD symptoms, psychological comorbidity, and stress in parents of children with a rare progressive life-limiting illness.

PTSD Symptoms Comparison EMDR and NFB with IPV Survivors: Ex-Post-Facto Study (Capella University, 2022)

Comparison of EMDR and neurofeedback therapy (NFB) for intimate partner violence (IPV) survivor post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing for Adolescents with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A rapid review of randomized control trials

EMDR for Adolescents with PTSD: Exploring Research and Implications. Insights from the Summer 2022 issue of Go With That Magazine by Professor Ian Barron and Susan Darker-Smith.

EMDR Therapy: To Call Out Is to Strengthen (Editorial) (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

The description of EMDR therapy in a journal article was outlined less favorably than other empirically supported trauma interventions.

EMDR Therapy and PTSD: A Goal-Directed Predictive Processing Perspective (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

EMDR treatment effects are often explained by drawing on processes that involve the automatic formation and change of mental associations.

The effectiveness of psychological interventions for reducing PTSD and psychological distress in first responders: A systematic review and meta-analysis (PLOS ONE)

This article explores the evidence for psychological treatments for PTSD, anxiety, depression, stress, and burnout in first responders.

A biologically inspired neural network model to gain insight into the mechanisms of post-traumatic stress disorder and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (Frontiers in Psychology)

This study used a biologically inspired computational model combined with real data from patients treated with EMDR to gain insights into PTSD mechanisms and to investigate how EMDR achieves trauma remission.

Fully remote intensive trauma-focused treatment for PTSD and complex PTSD (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

This study shows that intensive, trauma-focused treatment is safe and effective even when brief and applied fully remote.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Part 1 – theory, procedure and use in PTSD (BJPsych Advances)

This article reviews theory behind how EMDR works, evidence supporting its use in the treatment of PTSD & its indications/contraindications.

Psychological intervention in women victims of childhood sexual abuse: An open study-protocol of a randomized controlled clinical trial comparing EMDR psychotherapy and trauma-based cognitive therapy (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)

Women victims of childhood sexual abuse receive either EMDR psychotherapy or trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.

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