When the perpetrator is the client’s own body, the Illness and Somatic Disorders Protocol can be used. It is important to note that this protocol addresses both psychological and physical factors related to somatic complaints. For many, addressing the psychological dimensions will cause partial or complete remission of the physical symptoms. When primarily organic processes are involved, the psychological issues may be exacerbating the physical conditions. While physical symptoms may not remit, the clinical emphasis is on improving the person’s quality of life. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has also been used in the hospital to assist clients who are suffering from intractable pain to let go of the guilt they feel about wanting to die and be released from the pain. There are many ways to bolster the immune system in order to facilitate the healing process, however, death may be inevitable for some clients.

Protocol for excessive grief is to be used when there is a high level of suffering, self-denigration, and lack of remediation over time concerning the loss of a loved one. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) does not eliminate healthy appropriate emotions, including grief. The protocol is similar to the Standard EMDR Protocol for trauma. The goal of this work is to have clinicians’ client accept the loss and think back on aspects of life with the loved one with a wide range of feelings, including an appreciation for the positive experiences they shared. Francine Shapiro often brings up the issue: How long does one have to grieve? She asks us to not place our limitations on our clients as this would be antithetical to the notion of the ecological validity of the client’s self-healing process.

This author is interested in the idea of consolidating information in an accessible form throughout her career. The Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Summary Sheet was the result of a need on her part to have access to all of the relevant information concerning client information and EMDR interventions at a glance. This EMDR Summary Sheet is a way to consolidate important client information quickly and succinctly. It contains details such as the name of the patient, diagnosis, paper and pencil test results, goals, presenting problem, touchstone event, and experiences of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and any anticipatory anxiety. Major themes/cognitive interweaves and present resources are also noted.

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. These scripts are conveniently outlined in an easy-to-use, manual style template for therapists, allowing them to have a reliable, consistent form and procedure when using EMDR with clients. The idea of the safe place has been a staple in practices of Clinical Hypnosis practitioners. The first known use of the Safe Place with EMDR was when Dr. Neal Daniels, an EMDR practitioner working at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia, adopted this resource to assist the veterans with whom he worked to ground themselves and contain their affect before doing trauma work. Dr. Francine Shapiro saw the merit of this intervention and by 1995 included a formalized version into the first EMDR text.

This chapter presents a summary of the Single Traumatic Event Protocol. For single traumatic events, the Standard Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Protocol should be applied to the certain targets, including the past, present, and future templates. The chapter serves as a one-stop resource where therapists can access a wide range of word-for-word scripted protocols for EMDR practice. These scripts are conveniently outlined in an easy-to-use, manual style template for therapists, allowing them to have a reliable, consistent form and procedure when using EMDR with clients. Encourage clients to imagine themselves coping effectively in the face of specific challenges, triggers, or snafus. Therapists can make some suggestions of things in order to help inoculate them with future problems. It is helpful to use imaginal rehearsing type of future template after clients have received needed education concerning social skills and customs, assertiveness, and any other newly learned skills.

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. It discusses phobia protocol script notes. The fear is generated by the sight of the object and is independent of further participation. When targeting a process phobia, the clinician must address all the pertinent aspects of the experience, including the decision-making and anticipatory anxiety. Although the procedures for the simple phobia may eliminate the client’s self-perceived fear, they may not overcome the evolutionary biases challenged by a Behavioral Avoidance Test (BAT). Although the Simple Phobia Protocol may be sufficient in many instances, some phobia researchers believe that the division is not useful and that the Process Phobia Protocol should be used exclusively. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing EMDR, simple phobia protocol, process phobia protocol, decision-making, anticipatory anxiety, self-perceived fear, and behavioral avoidance test BAT.

This chapter presents a summary of the Current Anxiety and Behavior Protocol. For current anxiety and behavior problems, the Standard Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Protocol should be applied to the certain targets, including the past, present, and future templates. The chapter serves as a one-stop resource where therapists can access a wide range of word-for-word scripted protocols for EMDR practice. These scripts are outlined in an easy-to-use, manual style template for therapists, allowing them to have a reliable, consistent form and procedure when using EMDR with clients. After clients have processed their issue(s), they might want to work on positive templates for the future in other areas of their lives using the future templates. If new material comes ups during the Reevaluation Phase after the current anxiety and behavior were processed, target this material as soon as possible to make sure that the whole event have been reprocessed.

This chapter presents a summary of the Recent Traumatic Events Protocol. For single traumatic events, the Standard Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Protocol should be applied to the certain targets, including the past, present, and future templates. The chapter serves as a one-stop resource where therapists can access a wide range of word-for-word scripted protocols for EMDR practice. These scripts are conveniently outlined in an easy-to-use, manual style template for therapists, allowing them to have a reliable, consistent form and procedure when using EMDR with clients. The client should have a full association with the material as it is being reprocessed. If there is disturbance, the client should stop and inform the clinician. Then, the EMDR Procedure including the negative cognition (NC) and positive cognition (PC) is implemented. Repeat until the entire event can be visualized from start to finish without emotional, cognitive, or somatic distress.

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. Client history taking is an important part of well-prepared clinicians’ understanding of their clients. The Time Line Script is based on a number of personal communications with other EMDR clinicians. Start with the best events and ask for the negative events in the session. When all of the memories are gathered, it is helpful to plot them onto a “Positive and Negative Memories Map”. This Map allows for a visual presentation along the time line of the client’s life and offers a window into what the important landmarks of the client’s life were for the clinician and client to see together.

This chapter discusses illness and somatic disorders protocol. This protocol addresses both psychological and physical factors related to somatic complaints. This is an adjunct to appropriate medical care. For many, addressing the psychological dimensions will cause partial or complete remission of the physical symptoms. When primarily organic processes are involved, psychological issues may be exacerbating physical conditions. While physical symptoms may not remit, the clinical emphasis is on improving the person’s quality of life. The steps involved in illness and somatic disorders protocol are: teach affect regulation techniques and create an action plan to address real needs, identify and target intrusive thoughts and secondary gain; identify and reprocess relevant memories, present situations, and fears of the future; run “videotape” of the next 1 to 5 years and process disturbance and fears and incorporate positive future templates; use log and self-care procedures; if appropriate, use adjunctive imagery with cognitive groundwork.

Bipolar disorder occurs with high frequency and affects the brain circuits regulating affective states. It is characterized by dynamic mood changes from elevated mood to depressive or mixed episodes such as mania, hypermanis, depression, and euthymia. Typical mood stabilizers for bipolar patients include lithium, anticonvulsants, and atypical antipyschotics. Traumatic events play a fundamental role in the course of bipolar patients’ disease. On the basis of a first positive pilot randomized controlled trial of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in traumatized bipolar patients, the Barcelona Group developed a complex EMDR Bipolar Disorder Protocol to address this clinical need. The authors recommend using this protocol for bipolar patients in remission, with subsyndromal symptoms or at most in a hypomanic, mild mixed, or mild depressive episode. The EMDR Therapy 3-Pronged Protocol is used to reprocess past traumatic experiences, work with present triggers, and address future concerns for the highest level of adaptive response.

Recent studies on preventing postpartum depression (PPD) and on childbirth-related post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have identified the risk factors, including anxiety and depression related, trauma related, family and/or relationship related, and financial and/or work related risks. Primary PPD prevention can take place in a group setting or in an individual setting. The Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Protocol for the prevention of birth trauma and PPD in the pregnant woman was designed improve the woman’s performance and reduce risks of childbirth trauma, and strengthen the woman’s resiliency while reducing the negative effects of stress suffered in childbirth. By means of bilateral stimulation (BLS), expectant mothers can both reprocess any maladaptive encoding information that would interfere with future childbirth performances, and anchor positive information associated with images and scenes, which represent personal resources to be used in coping with the critical moments of childbirth.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease of the central nervous system that affects both the brain and the spinal cord by destroying the myelin sheath that protects the nerve fibers. This chapter describes the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy approach applied to the treatment of posttraumatic reactions related to MS. It briefs the emotional burden of MS and specific disease-related problems, followed by the main results of research in psychosocial treatments. The chapter explores the clinical features of traumatic reactions related to the disease. This protocol aims to support patients in their difficult tasks of coping with the following: the illness, fears connected to its future progression, and the difficult choices managing the stage of the disease characterized by the significant worsening of symptoms, often resulting in the total loss of autonomy and the ability to communicate normally with the external world.

Studies show that there is a high risk for relapse in major depression (MD). Each depressive episode increases the risk of relapse by 15” and the episodes get more severe with each relapse. It is the third most common cause for primary health consultation and the leading cause of disability from ages 15 to 44. Research shows that distinct psychosocial stressors precede most of the depressive episodes by 1 or 2 months (episode triggers). Following the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, DeprEnd© is an eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy protocol that addresses an important cause of depression that may also contribute to the maintenance of the symptoms of the disorder: pathogenic memory networks. In the DeprEnd© protocol, four main types of memories are addressed and worked with: classic traumatic memories (Criterion A), often non-Criterion A-based episode triggers, belief systems, and depressive and suicidal states.

The growing attention of the World Health Organization concerning prevention has led to many health care programs and procedures aimed at the three types of prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary. The possibility of enhancing the effectiveness of prepartum course for delivery preparation and a postpartum course for parenting support for prevention in pre- and postpartum care motivated the author to develop integrated protocols for individuals and groups of women for the prevention of birth trauma and postpartum depression. She has introduced EMDR Therapy into the Obstetric Psychoprophylaxis in Childbirth Course/Childbirth Preparation Class that includes Piscicelli’s Respiratory Autogenic Training (RAT) method. The goal of the EMDR Therapy Group Protocol for the Prevention of Birth Trauma and Postpartum Depression for Pregnant Women is that of conceptualizing and treating childbirth as a peak performance, promoting the women’s active participation in childbirth. This protocol integrates the use of various EMDR Therapy-related protocols for application.