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mardi 25 février 2014

Important Phases To A Proper EMDR Procedure

By Krystal Branch


Many people who have gone through a traumatic event in their life will surely want to be free of their stress. To these people, they will surely find it helpful to go through with their EMDR Denver treatment. They have to find the right clinician to administer the treatment. The clinician knows about the phases that must be taken for this treatment too.

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.

The next phase is the processing. At this point, the person is asked to focus on the disturbing memory while the professional initiates the lateral eye movement. The professional will get associative information from the person suffering from the disorder during this procedure. There will be new materials to work on after this phase.

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.

Another one is the body scan. With this as the next phase, the patient will have to recognize any uncomfortable sensations lingering in the body. This is usually present when one is thinking of the traumatic experience they went through. During their reminiscing, they have to find tensions and physical discomfort in their body to eliminate them.

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 is the last phase for the treatment. The professional will be asked to reevaluate the word they did in the previous sessions. They have to make assessments in between each visits to see if the person can manage well on their own. This is the part where one can determine whether things are already find now or if the treatment should proceed as planned.




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