Name that Phase
AIP
Practice
Neurobiology
Parts, Bits & Elements
100

This Phase identifies 7 elements of the target memory.

What is Phase 3?

100

This is the accidental discoverer of EMDR who developed and published the AIP theory.

Who is Francine Shapiro?

100

People in these licensing categories are invited and encouraged to learn EMDR.

What are health care professionals?  (RN, MD, DO, LCSW, PsyD, PhD, etc.)

100

________ is the central method of action in EMDR therapy.

What is BLS or DAS or BLDAS?

100

A saccade describes what stimulation that is most commonly used in EMDR.

What is side-to-side eye movements?

200

In this phase, clients learn strategies for coping and stabilization.

What is Phase 2?

200

In this year was the first appearance of AIP/EMDR in a professional journal.

What is 1989?

200

True or False:  EMDR can be used with children ages 3 years and younger.  

What is True?

200

This brain structure is associated with fear and in strongly impacted by EMDR therapy.

What is the amygdala?

200

What does the 'D' in EMDR stand for?

What is desensitization?

300

In this phase, adaptive thoughts or beliefs are strengthened.

What is Phase 5?

300

EMDR was explored and researched by Dr. Shapiro in response to her noticing what after receiving difficult medical information.

What is her eyes flickering?

300

_______  must be identified before starting desensitizing.

What is a target?

300

Bilateral stimulation has been shown to reduce the _______  of visual and memory material.  

What is vividness

300

EMDR is primarily recognized as a treatment for ______, and is effective for other clinical presentations.

What is PTSD? or trauma?

400

In this phase, clients are prepared to exit a treatment session.

What is Phase 7?

400

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?

400

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?

400

Originally, AIP was thought to explain how trauma memories were processed by mimicking this.

What is REM sleep?

400

True or False:  In EMDR therapy, clients are encouraged to give extensive, detailed descriptions of their experiences.

What is False?

500

This phase is the "quality control" and seeks lingering physical activations.

What is Phase 6.  

500

This highest level of research has shown EMDR to be effective compared to other therapies.

What is randomized controlled trials (RCTs)?

500

During this processing phase, client might experience spontaneous thoughts, memories, emotions or sensations.

What is Phase 4?

500

This hypothesis suggests that high-intensity dual attention stimuli taxes deconsolidated information.  

What is Working Memory Theory?

500

Generally speaking, EMDR is classified as what type of therapy?

What is a structured, integrative psychotherapy?