Healing the Caregiving System: Working With Parents Within a Comprehensive EMDR Treatment
Excerpt from the book EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches With Children shows model to work with caregivers of children with complex trauma.
Article Abstract
“This article is an excerpt from the book EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches With Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation. It presents an original model to work with caregivers of children with complex trauma. This model comprises 3 levels of parental involvement within a comprehensive eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment: psychoeducation, self-regulation, and memory reprocessing and integration (Gomez, 2009, 2012a, 2012b). Mentalization and reflective function (Fonagy & Target, 1997), mindsight (Siegel, 1999, 2010), mind-mindedness (Meins, Fernyhough, Fradley, & Tuckey, 2002), insightfulness (Koren-Karie, Oppenheim, Dolev, Sher, & Etziom-Carasso, 2002), and metacognitive monitoring (Flavell, 1979; Main, 1991) are all constructs linked to the parent’s capacity to develop infant’s attachment security. However, unresolved trauma and loss appears to impair these capacities in parents. Many children wounded by caregivers lacking such competences had to endure repetitive emotional, physical, and sexual overt and covert abuse; enmeshment and intrusiveness; or on the contrary, detachment and lack of connection. When the caregivers have been the wounding agents, their inclusion and active participation in the overall treatment of their children is fundamental.”
—Description from publisher
Article Access
Open Access
Gomez, A. M. (2012). Healing the Caregiving System: Working With Parents Within a Comprehensive EMDR Treatment. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 6(3), 136–144. https://doi.org/10.1891/1933-3196.6.3.136
About the Journal
The Journal of EMDR Practice and Research is a peer-reviewed publication devoted to integrative, state-of-the-art papers about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a broadly conceived interdisciplinary journal that stimulates and communicates research and theory about EMDR, and their application to clinical practice. The Journal of EMDR Practice and Research is the Official Publication of the EMDR International Association.
Date
September 1, 2012
Creator(s)
Ana M. Gomez
Topics
Complex Trauma/C-PTSD
Client Population
Adolescents, Children, Families/Parents
Extent
9 pages
Publisher
Springer Publishing Company
Rights
Copyright © 2012 EMDR International Association
APA Citation
Gomez, A. M. (2012). Healing the Caregiving System: Working With Parents Within a Comprehensive EMDR Treatment. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 6(3), 136–144. https://doi.org/10.1891/1933-3196.6.3.136
Series
6
Installment
3
Audience
EMDR Therapists
Language
English
Content Type
Peer-Reviewed
Original Source
Journal of EMDR Practice and Research
Access Type
Open Access