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.
Spontaneous brain activity, graph metrics, and head motion related to prospective post-traumatic stress disorder trauma-focused therapy response (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
This study examined whether resting-state brain activity and network patterns in 46 veterans with PTSD at the start of psychotherapy (tf-CBT, EMDR, or both) could predict later treatment success.
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.
EMDR Therapy, PTSD and Treating Black Men and Adolescents
Dr. Allen Lipscomb, LCSW, associate professor, director of Minority Male Mentoring (M3) discusses how clinicians can help treat PTSD in Black men and adolescents who have experienced racial trauma.
Can working memory account for EMDR efficacy in PTSD? (Preprint, BMC Psychology)
We examined whether the working memory (WM) hypothesis would provide an explanation for the beneficial effect of bilateral stimulation.
EMDR Therapy & PTSD
Wendy Byrd, LPC, LMFT, board of directors president of EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) discusses how EMDR therapy can help treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
