Topic

• ❑ Trauma & EMDR Podcast, Feburary 2006
  • ❑ Websites:
    • ❑ http://www.emdr.com
    • ❑ http://www.emdria.com
    • ❑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMDR
  • ❑ Dr. Silver's Website Recommendations
    • ❑ http://www.oqp.med.va.gov/cpg/PTSD/PTSD_Base.htm
      • ❑ This is the VA site outlining the Joint Clinical Practice Guidelines for PTSD (arrived at with the Dept. of Defense). There are reviews of the major treatments for EMDR. While limited in the research chosen to cover, they are one of the more objective groups to identify EMDR as an effective treatment for PTSD. (They also point out the limit of CBT and the exposure therapies for treating combat PTSD, though you have to look in the EMDR research review to find the reference - I don't entirely agree with that limit but I understand Dr. Foa's position. It is incredibly hard to use exposure therapy when working with multiply traumatized individuals but it can be done if you can nail the patient's feet to the floor.) Other groups identifying EMDR as an effective treatment for trauma reactions include CREST (N. Ireland), the boards of mental health of Israel, Italy, and the UK, Division 12 of the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychiatric Association.
    • ❑ http://www.trauma-pages.org/
      • ❑ This site is organized by Dr. David Baldwin and is one of the best single-source sites for all aspects of trauma - definitions, neurobiology, treatment options, and so on. Very interesting discussions take place there on all those topics and his reference list is one of the most thorough you can find. A first stop for researchers and theorists.
  • ❑ Dr. Silver's Book Recommendation
    • ❑ Shapiro & Forrest: EMDR: The breakthrough "eye movement" therapy got overcoming anxiety, stress and trauma.