Research in clinical psycho-oncology is becoming an area of key importance in investigating the effects of the interventions of support and/or psychotherapy with patients. This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the effectiveness of the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) approach compared to a non–trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention. Ther...

Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, Volume 4, Number 4, 2010 © 2010 EMDR International Association DOI: 10.1891/1933-3196.4.4.156 Practitioners have been seeking more e! ective means to support clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and to replace challenging behavior with more e! ective coping strategies. Challenging behaviors in the context of this article refer to ...

Objective: This study tried to evaluate the usefulness and direction of the development of post-traumatic assessment and intervention based on the opinions from pediatrics and disaster and trauma-related experts using the Delphi survey technique. Methods: In-depth individual interview served as pre-survey: followed by Delphi primary and secondary survey. Specialists in child and adolescent ment...

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective treatment for alleviating trauma symptoms, and the positive effects of this treatment have been scientifically confirmed under wellcontrolled conditions. This has provided an opportunity to explore how EMDR works. The present paper reports on the findings of a long series of experiments that disproved the hypothesis that eye m...

Clinical hypnosis and EMDR have both been employed in the treatment of phobias. EMDR has been a controversial treatment method with the research showing mixed results concerning its efficacy. Many studies have shown the effectiveness of hypnosis in the treatment of phobias, but no studies have directly compared hypnosis to EMDR. This paper discusses each approach to treatment, with special emph...

Abstract Background Up to 33% of women develop symptoms posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a traumatic birth experience. Negative and childbirth experiences can also lead fear childbirth, avoiding or negatively influencing subsequent pregnancy, mother-infant bonding problems, problems with breastfeeding, depression reduced quality life. For PTSD in general, eye movement desensitization ...

Abstract Parents of children with severe inborn errors metabolism frequently face stressful events related to the disease their child and are consequently at high risk for developing parental posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Assessment subsequent treatment PTSD in these parents is however not common clinical practice. can be effectively treated by Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing ...

Background: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective psychological treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. Recalling a memory while simultaneously making eye movements (EM) decreases a memory's vividness and/or emotionality. It has been argued that non-specific factors, such as treatment expectancy and experimental demand, may contribute to the EMDR's effectiven...

The Author, after having summarized what EMDR is, remebers the international aknowledgements it has received and points out the main hypothesis of functioning and the studies of neurophysiology. He specifies how EMDR, from an initial step of therapeutic technique and clinical method, has become a global approach useful from many fields of the psychopathology, till to the most complex post-traum...