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16: The EMDR Drawing Protocol for Adults

DOI:

10.1891/9780826122384.0016

Authors

  • Carvalho, Esly Regina

Abstract

This chapter serves as a one-stop resource where therapists can access a wide range of word-for-word scripted protocols for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) practice, including the past, present, and future templates. Esly Regina Carvalho is a very visual and artistic person and she used drawings in her psychodrama practice. Carvalho began to ask her adult clients to draw a picture that would illustrate the negative cognition. Sometimes, they would have feelings about themselves or self-perceptions that would also turn into drawings, and from these drawings, the Standard EMDR Protocol ensued. Carvalho usually ask for drawings when people come in with generalities and we need to pin down a specific target to work on. The Drawing Protocol for Adults can be helpful in narrowing down a target, using a metaphor or picture which has a strong gen-eralizable effect instead of a concrete scene from the past.