Editorial: Present and future of EMDR in clinical psychology and psychotherapy

This editorial summarizes an increasing scientific and clinical interest in EMDR within the psychological and psychiatric fields world-wide.

Description

“Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy which has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a first-choice treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD; WHO, 2013). The new International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) guidelines (Berliner et al., 2019) rated EMDR as strongly recommended in the treatment of PTSD in children, adolescents and adults. These recommendations were based on high quality systematic reviews developed through Cochrane database, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, and the aforementioned WHO recommendation, as well as on the results of randomized controlled trials. In the last decade, there has been increasing research into the efficacy of EMDR in other psychiatric and somatic disorders with comorbid psychological trauma (Valiente-Gómez et al.).”

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Article Access

Open Access

Castelnuovo, G., Fernandez, I., & Amann, B. L. (2019). Editorial: Present and future of EMDR in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychology, 02185. Open access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02185

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“Frontiers in Psychology is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes advances in psychological research.”

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