A Guide to the Standard Emdr Protocols for Clinicians, Supervisors, and Consultants

Description

This book serves as a resource for practicing clinicians, supervisors, clinic directors, and hospital administrators. Leeds provides clear, concise treatment guidelines on the clinical use of EMDR.

This book provides an orientation to the clinical, professional, and risk management issues. Leeds provides sample consultation agreements and forms for documenting treatment planning, case summaries, and treatment outcomes. These forms will be especially helpful for case managers and clinical supervisors in agencies and community health treatment centers.

Key features:

• Includes charts, forms, illustrations, tables, and decision trees, presenting essential information clearly and concisely to guide treatment planning and documentation
• Presents case studies with transcripts illustrating the different protocols and presenting guidelines for informed decision making
• Outlines the stages of clinical skill development
• Discusses ethical issues in clinical application, consultation, supervision, and research

Special Features

• Several cases with near verbatim transcripts from sessions will be carried throughout the text to illustrate the different protocols, and clinical decision making
• A large format presented in a visually accessible manner
• Provides a conceptual bridge between the earlier scholarly work of those in the behavioral and cognitive psychology literature and the pioneering work of Francine Shapiro

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Section I - The Conceptual Framework for Understanding EMDR
Chapter 1 - The History and Evolution of EMDR
Chapter 2 - The Adaptive Information Processing Model
Chapter 3 - An Overview of the Standard Eight Phase Model of EMDR and the Three-Pronged Protocol

Section II - Case Formulation, Treatment Planning, and Preparing Patients for EMDR Reprocessing
Chapter 4 - Case Formulation and Treatment Planning
Chapter 5 - Assessing Readiness for Reprocessing
Chapter 6 - The Preparation Phase

Section III - Phases Three Through Eight of the Standard Protocol for PTSD With the Standard Procedural Steps for EMDR Reprocessing
Chapter 7 - The Standard Protocol: The Assessment Phase
Chapter 8 - The Standard Protocol: The Desensitization Phase: Basic Procedures
Chapter 9 -Maintaining and Restoring Effective Reprocessing in the Desensitization Phase
Chapter 10 - The Standard Protocol: The Installation, Body Scan and Closure Phases
Chapter 11 - The Standard Protocol: The Reevaluation Phase and Completing the Treatment Plan
Chapter 12 - Cases Illustrating EMDR Treatment of PTSD

Section IV - Research Supported Standard EMDR Protocols for Other Disorders and Situations
Chapter 13 - Treating Specific Phobias
Chapter 14 - Treating Panic Disorder
Chapter 15 - Cases Illustrating EMDR Treatment of Panic Disorder

Section V - Professional Development
Chapter 16 - Professional Development in Clinical Application
Chapter 17 - Supervising and Consulting on EMDR Treatment
Section VI - Fidelity Checklists, Forms, Resources
Appendix A- Fidelity Checklists
Appendix B - Forms for Planning and Documenting Treatment
Appendix C- Resources
Appendix D- Glossary
References
Index

Author Biographies

Andrew M. Leeds, PhD, is a California licensed Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist with 34 years of private practice psychotherapy experience. He practices in Santa Rosa, California and lives nearby with his wife of 30 years, Deborah Taylor-French and their daughter Alexandra. After early training in Gestalt and Somatic Psychotherapies, Dr. Leeds served a 2 year internship as program coordinator for an alcohol abuse treatment program in Santa Cruz and received his license as a Marriage and Family Therapist before going on to obtain his doctorate. During his doctoral program he studied cognitive behavioral therapy, Ericksonian hypnosis, and Self Psychology. He has presented papers on EMDR for regional, national and international conferences. He is the author of a book, book chapters and several journal articles on EMDR. He served for 2 years on the Standards and Training Committee of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) and for 3 years as an elected member of the EMDRIA Board of Directors. He presently serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. Dr. Leeds contributed to the evolution of EMDR by articulating, publishing and teaching the EMDR procedure he named Resource Development and Installation (RDI). In 1999 he received from EMDRIA an award for creative innovation in the development of EMDR, as well as the Ronald A. Martinez, PhD Memorial Award.