Course curriculum

  • 1

    Prologue: Welcome, Orientation, and Preparation

  • 2

    Assignments and LIVE SESSIONS: Days 1 through 4

    • Itinerary

    • Required readings and assignments

    • Orientation

    • Days one and two

    • Days one and two
  • 3

    Day One/Chapter One: Introduction to the Model

    • Course Structure

    • Fidelity

    • EMDR Therapy History and Basics

    • Foundations

    • Models of Psychotherapy and Conceptualization

    • AIP as the Model of EMDR

    • Short and Long Term Memory Storage

    • Comparison to Other Models of Psychotherapy

    • EMDRIA's Definition of EMDR

    • International Treatment Guidelines

    • Bonus articles!
  • 4

    Day One/Chapter Two: Intro to History Gathering

    • Overview of The 8 Phases

    • Intro to History Gathering

    • "Big Ts" and "Little Ts"

    • Trauma, Development, and Attachment

    • Target Lists

    • Developing a Target List

    • Ordering the Target List

    • Identifying Earlier Targets: Floatback Techniques

    • Treatment Planning

    • The Function and Importance of Dual Attention

    • Additional articles
  • 5

    Day One/Chapter Three: Assessments for History Gathering

    • General Assessments

    • Mandatory Aseessments

    • Genograms: method and process

    • Genograms: demonstration

    • Administering the PCL

    • Implications of PCL-C Scoring

    • Administering the DES

    • Using the Annotated DES

    • Normalizing "parts"

    • Administering the THQ

    • Understanding Schemas

    • Administering the YSQ and YPI

    • Understanding Implications of Schema Assessment

    • Other Assessments

    • Ace Questions

    • GAD Assessment

    • Impact of Event Scale- Revised (IES-R)

    • Depression Assessment

    • Other Methods of Identifying Targets

    • Extra Articles
  • 6

    Day One/Chapter Four: Preparation- Explanations and Metaphors

    • Basics of Client Readiness

    • Orienting Clients to EMDR

    • EMDR/AIP Explanation for Clients

      FREE PREVIEW

    • Another EMDR Explanation for Clients

    • Alternate AIP/EMDR Explanation

    • Short and Long Term Memory Storage

      FREE PREVIEW

    • Providing Informed Consent

    • EMDR Explanation Metaphors

    • Seating and Eye Movements- In Person

    • Techniques for Managing Dual Attention

    • Readiness Checklists

    • EMDR and Telehealth

    • EMDRIA Guidelines for Virtual EMDR Therapy

    • Tips for Maintaining te Therapeutic in Online EMDR Therapy
  • 7

    Day One/Chapter Five: Preparation- Closure and Containment

    • Sensory Grounding using 5-4-3-2-1

    • Safe/Calm Place

    • Container Exercise

    • Closure Through Breathing and Somatic Techniques

    • Additional Closure Techniques

    • The Application of Eye Movements
  • 8

    Day Two/Chapter Six: Preparation- Resourcing and RDI

    • Resource Development and Reprocessing

    • Aunt Sally's Curtains
  • 9

    Day Two/Chapter Seven: Assessment

    • Reprocessing Scripts

    • Introduction to Assessment

    • Setting up an Image

    • Setting up the Negative Cognition

    • Setting up the Positive Cognition

    • Rating the Validity of the Positive Cognition

    • Emotions, SUDS, and Body

    • Bonus article!

    • Introduction to Case Conceptualizaation
  • 10

    Day Two/Chapter Eight: Desensitization

    • Fidelity

    • Desensitization

    • The Four Elements- Demo

    • EMDR and Spiral Demo

    • EMDR Processing Demo
  • 11

    Day Two/Chapter Nine: Installation, Body Scan, and Closure

    • Chapter 9

    • Demo- Prep using Spiral
  • 12

    Day Three/Chapter Ten: Reevaluation, Three Prongs, and Cognitive Interweaves

    • Chapter Ten

    • Prep for Script Quiz
  • 13

    LIVE SESSIONS: Days 3 and 4

    • Readings and Assignments

    • Days 3 and 4

    • Days 3 and 4
  • 14

    Live Sessions/ Days 5 & 6

    • Readings and Assignments
  • 15

    Day 5/Chapter Eleven: Special Situations part 1

    • Special Situations

    • Standard Script Quiz

    • EMDRIA's "Go With That" Magazine on Depression

    • Emdria's Magazine, "Go With That" on EMDR and Addiction
  • 16

    DAY 6 & 7/Chapter Twelve: Special Populations

    • Special Populations

    • Special Populations

    • EMDRIA's Magazine "Go With That" on EMDR and Children

    • EMDRIA's Tools for Treating Military

    • Dissociation- Orientation

    • Dissociation- Categorization

    • Dissociation- Assessment

    • Dissociation- Intro to the MID

    • Addictions and the CravEX protocol- part 1

    • Addictions and the CravEX protocol- part 2

    • Veterans
  • 17

    LIVE SESSIONS: Days 7 & 8

    • Readings and Assignments

    • Days 7 & 8

    • Days 7 & 8
  • 18

    Day 8/Chapter Fifteen: Course Content Wrap Up

    • Connecting to the EMDR Universe

    • EMDRIA-Required Learner Assessment- closed book, no time limit.

    • Course evaluation
  • 19

    Day 8/Chapter Fourteen: Mechanisms and Research

    • Mechanisms

    • Interesting research articles