Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating Eating Disorders, Chronic Pain and Maladaptive Self-Care Behaviors

This one-stop resource focuses on applying EMDR scripted protocols to medical-related conditions. Edited by a leading EMDR scholar and practitioner, it delivers a wide range of step-by-step protocols that enable beginning clinicians as well as seasoned EMDR clinicians, trainers, and consultants alike to enhance their expertise more quickly when working with clients who present with medical-related issues such as eating and body image dysregulation, relationship distortion, chronic pain, and maladaptive self-care behaviors. The scripts are conveniently outlined in an easy-to-use, manual style template, facilitating a reliable, consistent format for use with EMDR clients.

The scripts distill the essence of the standard EMDR protocols. They reinforce the specific parts, sequence, and language used to create an effective outcome, and illustrate how clinicians are using this framework to work with a variety of medical-related issues while maintaining the integrity of the AIP model. Following a brief outline of the basic elements of EMDR procedures and protocols, the book focuses on applying EMDR scripted protocols to such key medical issues as eating and body image dysregulation, chronic pain experiences such as migraine and fibromyalgia, and maladaptive self-care behaviors. It includes summary sheets for each protocol to facilitate gathering information, client documentation, and quick retrieval of salient information while formulating a treatment plan. Protocols for clinician self-care add further to the book’s value.

Key Features:

• Encompasses a wide range of step-by-step scripts for medical-related issues
• Includes scripted protocols and summary sheets in strict accordance with the AIP model
• Facilitates the rapid development of practitioner expertise
• Outlined in convenient manual-style template
• Includes scripts for EMDR treatment of clients with eating disorders and body image dysregulation, headaches, fibromyalgia, relationship distortion, maladaptive self-care behaviors, and more

Marilyn Luber, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant in private practice in Philadelphia. She is a co-representative of the Board Secretariat for the EMDR Global Alliance: The International Society of EMDR Therapy and co-chairing worldwide research on Redefining EMDR (Kansas State University).