This Phase identifies 7 elements of the target memory.
What is Phase 3?
This is the accidental discoverer of EMDR who developed and published the AIP theory.
Who is Francine Shapiro?
People in these licensing categories are invited and encouraged to learn EMDR.
What are health care professionals? (RN, MD, DO, LCSW, PsyD, PhD, etc.)
________ is the central method of action in EMDR therapy.
What is BLS or DAS or BLDAS?
A saccade describes what stimulation that is most commonly used in EMDR.
What is side-to-side eye movements?
In this phase, clients learn strategies for coping and stabilization.
What is Phase 2?
In this year was the first appearance of AIP/EMDR in a professional journal.
What is 1989?
True or False: EMDR can be used with children ages 3 years and younger.
What is True?
This brain structure is associated with fear and in strongly impacted by EMDR therapy.
What is the amygdala?
What does the 'D' in EMDR stand for?
What is desensitization?
In this phase, adaptive thoughts or beliefs are strengthened.
What is Phase 5?
EMDR was explored and researched by Dr. Shapiro in response to her noticing what after receiving difficult medical information.
What is her eyes flickering?
_______ must be identified before starting desensitizing.
What is a target?
Bilateral stimulation has been shown to reduce the _______ of visual and memory material.
What is vividness
EMDR is primarily recognized as a treatment for ______, and is effective for other clinical presentations.
What is PTSD? or trauma?
In this phase, clients are prepared to exit a treatment session.
What is Phase 7?
Name one major professional association that recognizes EMDR as an top tier treatment for PTSD.
What is the APA? or WHO? or VA/DoD? or UN?
Joseph Wolpe, a psychiatrist from Johannesburg, developed this scale in 1969. Dr. Shapiro employed it in her 1989 research.
What is the Subjective Units of Disturbance (SUD) scale?
Originally, AIP was thought to explain how trauma memories were processed by mimicking this.
What is REM sleep?
True or False: In EMDR therapy, clients are encouraged to give extensive, detailed descriptions of their experiences.
What is False?
This phase is the "quality control" and seeks lingering physical activations.
What is Phase 6.
This highest level of research has shown EMDR to be effective compared to other therapies.
What is randomized controlled trials (RCTs)?
During this processing phase, client might experience spontaneous thoughts, memories, emotions or sensations.
What is Phase 4?
This hypothesis suggests that high-intensity dual attention stimuli taxes deconsolidated information.
What is Working Memory Theory?
Generally speaking, EMDR is classified as what type of therapy?
What is a structured, integrative psychotherapy?