Background
Mechanism
Mixed Bag
Stages of EMDR
Do you know what I mean?
100
Founder of EMDR?

Dr. Francine Shapiro

100

What does BLS stand for?

Bilateral Stimulation 

100

What is AIP stand for?

Adaptive Information Processing

100

History Taking (AIP Informed Biopsychosocial)?

Phase 1

100

Hebb’s Axiom?

Neurons that fire together, wire together

200
What does SUDS mean?
Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale 
200

What does REM stand for?

Rapid Eye Movement

200

What is the signal called that the client uses to stop processing?

The stop signal

200

Body Scan Phase?

Phase 6

200

ACE meaning?

Adverse Childhood Experience  

300

What is VOC mean?

Validity of Cognition 

300

DAS?

Dual Attention Stimulation

300

What is a Target Sequence Plan 

An outline of disturbing incidents identified as needing processing along the client’s life span (i.e., past incidents, present triggers, and future anticipated triggers).

300

Preparation (Grounding/Affect Management) Phase?

Phase 2

300

An intervention strategy (Browning, 1999; Zangwill, 2002) to use a client’s belief and affect to identify past experiences relating to a client’s present experience?

Floatback

400

The Father of Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy?

Pierre Janet

400

The alternating orientation between the incident, stimulation, and awareness, forces attention across the hemispheric midline?

ORIENTING RESPONSE

400

Three-Prong Process consists of what three areas?

For full EMDR treatment effects, (1) past incidents, (2) present triggers, and (3) future templates need to be fully processed.

400

Reevaluation Phase?

Phase 8

400

A cognition or thought about ourselves that brings up an emotional charge or body sensation? 

Negative Belief

500

The year of Francine's original research study?

1989

500

Modulation between brain wave frequencies, i.e., high wave frequencies-REM, and slow-wave frequencies - Hippocampal integration?

REM: RAPID EYE MOVEMENT

500

The earliest identified incident that resonates with the client’s presenting complaints?

Touchstone Memory

500

Desensitization Phase?

Phase 4

500

A technique to help the client move back and forth between disturbance and present/calm state?

Pendulation

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