Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Patihis, Lawrence; Cruz, Cristobal S.; McNally, Richard J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_895

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“…Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was deemed to be a defined form of psychotherapeutic treatment which helped people to learn how to identify and change disturbing or destructive thought patterns that had a negative impact on emotions and behaviour [ 33 ]. Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) was deemed to be a defined therapy which required patients to safely retrieve a traumatic memory, with the support of a trained therapist, in order to reduce the emotional distress that this recollection created, through the reappraising and reprocessing of the thoughts associated with the events of the traumatic experience [ 34 ].…”

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Psychological and social interventions for mental health issues and disorders in Southeast Asia: a systematic review

Maddock

Blair

Ean

et al. 2021

Int J Ment Health Syst

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Background Mental health issues and disorders are major public health challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast Asia, where chronic shortages in mental health services and human resources exist. The development of effective and accessible mental health systems in Southeast Asia will require evidence based psychological and social interventions. This systematic review provides a narrative synthesis of the evidence on the effectiveness of such interventions for mental health issues and disorders in Southeast Asia. Methods A comprehensive literature search of 7 electronic databases (PsycINFO, Medline (Ovid), Cochrane library, EMBASE, SCOPUS, APA PsycArticles, and Social Care Online) was undertaken. Results Thirty two studies employing RCT designs to evaluate the effectiveness of a range of psychological and social mental health interventions on a number of different mental health outcomes were included in this review. The disparate intervention programmes reviewed were categorised as: lay delivered, yoga, aerobic and/or meditation based, cognitive behavioural therapy oriented, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing based (EMDR), health worker delivered, and hybrid programmes. The majority of the studies included in this review were of low to moderate quality due to the variability in the quality of the study design. The highest quality, and most promising evidence came from the evaluations of lay delivered interventions. This evidence demonstrates the feasibility and potential sustainability of implementing such interventions in resource constrained contexts. Conclusions The review findings indicate that a disparate array of mental health interventions can be implemented effectively in a range of Southeast Asian mental health and health settings. There is a clear need for significantly more research however, through higher quality and larger scale RCTs before it will be known more definitively, if these interventions are effective, and for whom they are most effective in different Southeast Asian contexts.

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Psychological and social interventions for mental health issues and disorders in Southeast Asia: a systematic review

Maddock

Blair

Ean

et al. 2021

Int J Ment Health Syst

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“…Hypothetically, EMDR pairs the recall of a traumatic event with a supposedly emotionally-neutral motor stimulus-eye movements. EMDR appears to show similar improvements in post-therapy outcomes to other cognitive-behavioral therapies particularly for the treatment of PTSD, however the functional mechanisms underlying its action remain unclear [117][118][119][120].…”

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Keeping in Touch with Mental Health: The Orienting Reflex and Behavioral Outcomes from Calatonia

Blanchard

Comfort

2020

Brain Sciences

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Physical and psychological therapy based on touch has been gradually integrated into broader mental health settings in the past two decades, evolving from a variety of psychodynamic, neurobiological and trauma-based approaches, as well as Eastern and spiritual philosophies and other integrative and converging systems. Nevertheless, with the exception of a limited number of well-known massage therapy techniques, only a few structured protocols of touch therapy have been standardized and researched to date. This article describes a well-defined protocol of touch therapy in the context of psychotherapy—the Calatonia technique—which engages the orienting reflex. The orienting reflex hypothesis is explored here as one of the elements of this technique that helps to decrease states of hypervigilance and chronic startle reactivity (startle and defensive reflexes) and restore positive motivational and appetitive states.

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

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Psychological and social interventions for mental health issues and disorders in Southeast Asia: a systematic review

Psychological and social interventions for mental health issues and disorders in Southeast Asia: a systematic review

Keeping in Touch with Mental Health: The Orienting Reflex and Behavioral Outcomes from Calatonia

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