lundi 24 février 2014

The Basic Approaches To A Simple EMDR Treatment

By Krystal Branch


Treating post traumatic stress disorder can be done with EMDR Denver. The person suffering from this disorder should call up for the assistance of a professional. The professional is the one who will administer this treatment. The said treatment is composed of eight phases, each with precise intentions of their own.

The first phase has a lot to do with history and treatment planning. At this point, the professional will conduct an initial evaluation with regards to the history of the client. Depending on the results of the evaluation, the professional will then develop a general treatment plan that will be used for treating the person suffering from the said disorder.

Processing. It is important to pay attention to this phase because this is where the client will have to relive the traumatic experience in memory. While the client is focusing on this memory, the therapist will then begin initiating the lateral eye movements. It should help the therapist determine some associative information out of the event.

The clinician should then focus on the assessment of the patient as well as the treatment. At this phase, one will still have to visualize the traumatic memory and visualize an image to represent it. One should then recognize it through negative cognition. Once completed, the next thing to do is to visualize another image, this time for a positive cognition, that one may associate with the memory.

Desensitization should then come next. With the traumatic memory still lingering in the patient's head, the patient should then pull up the negative cognition one has formed for this. Using the proper bilateral requests and gestures for the patient, it should be possible for the clinician to let the patient be desensitized about the event. There will be no need to feel as negatively about it as before.

There is the installation as well. This is the next phase that patients have to go through. At this point, one will need the positive cognition that was developed beforehand. This time, one has to focus on this and on the instructions given by the clinician. The clinician will focus on replacing the negative cognition one has with the positive cognition one has developed.

The body scan is the next step to this. This is the part where one has to identify uncomfortable sensations that might still be lingering in one's body. While one is thinking about the disturbing memory, check the body for any tension or physical discomfort. Target them so that they can be eliminated.

Find closure with it. There are events that cannot be resolved completely within the time limit of the treatment. In this case, one might want to make use of relaxation techniques to help with acquiring emotional stability and tranquility. These techniques will surely be of great help to the person suffering from the traumatic event.

Reevaluation. This is considered to be the last phase in the procedure that the therapist will administer. The initial evaluation is not enough to see the condition of a client. Make sure to reevaluate the client every now and then. The client should be completely fine after going through proper treatment.




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