Vers une nouvelle appréhension des mathématiques par traitement EMDR : actualités et perspectives

Abstract

Objective. -EMDR for Eye Movement Desensitization and Repro-cessing developed since 1989 by F. Shapiro has demonstrated its effectiveness in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In Science of Education, no study has been previously deve-loped in the application of EMDR protocols. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the relevance and effectiveness of EMDR in supporting cognitive and emotional remediation of students in Master 1, with respect to mathematics, preparing Schools Teacher contest. The first encounters with the students revealed, through their discourse, an aversion to mathematics linked to one or more particularly painful experiences in a learning situation. Mathema-tics may cause anguish, sometimes tinged beliefs such as "I'll never be able to. . . I am very bad at math". This represents even an insur-mountable obstacle in the professional life of some. Methods. -Nearly 170 students in Master 1 "Professor of the Schools" registered on the ESPE (College of the Teaching profession and Education) were asked about their relation to mathematics, both in their emotions as their self-efficacy. Among those who sug-gested a traumatic memory in a learning situation in mathematics, forty were selected and divided into two groups. The control group received two hours of information about relaxation techniques that could be used before mathematics. The other group benefited of the EMDR treatment according to the standard protocol in eight phases.Results. -The results showed that students who received EMDR treatment experienced after treatment and one month later, a signi-ficant decline in their negative emotions with mathematics and an increase in the strength of their self-efficacy, unlike the control group. Discussion. -EMDR demonstrates its effectiveness in reproces-sing beliefs and emotions of students with respect to mathematics and opens ways of research in Educational Sciences. So, it will be necessary, from the principle of alternated bilateral stimulation, to develop specific protocols for the struggling students, to measure the effects in the long term and develop them in a group situation.

Anxiety Reduction and Improved Concentration in Schoolchildren through Wingwave® Coaching

“…It may, therefore, be that the subjective feeling of the experimental group was possibly at the lower end of the baseline, and so, the increase throughout the process should be interpreted with caution. Although, in this study, more participants took part than in studies with a comparable approach (e.g., [ 22 , 23 ]), larger sample sizes should be considered for future studies in order to increase the validity of the data. Lastly, objective physiological measures (e.g., heart rate variability or electromyogram) could also have increased the validity of this study and should be considered in future studies with the wingwave ® method when anxiety and/or concentration parameters are collected.…”

“…EMDR has also been used to support cognitive and emotional remediation of undergraduate future schoolteachers in their first year of the master program. Students of the EMDR group, unlike those in the control group, experienced a significant decline in their negative emotions as well as an increased sense of their self-efficacy ([ 23 ]).…”

EMDR as Treatment Option for Conditions Other Than PTSD: A Systematic Review

“…In their study, one single session was sufficient to produce significant reductions in several measures of anxiety scores immediately after the EMDR treatment (vs Waitlist), with the treatment having lasting effects previous to examinations. More recently, another study (Vauthier et al, 2019) extended the EMDR beneficial findings to learning, specifically in mathematics, a well-known anxiogenic subject for university students required to pass a mandatory high-level mathematics contest. One single session of EMDR, focusing on past anxiogenic experiences related to learning mathematics revealed significant effects in reducing the negativeemotion bias related to mathematics in general.…”

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing desde la propuesta de valoración de Mario Bounge

“…( Rousseau, Malbos, & Verger, 2019). "La eficacia de EMDR en el tratamiento del dolor a través de ensayos clínicos aleatorios Los numerosos estudios de control, hay seis ensayos clínicos controlados aleatorios que demuestran la eficacia y la seguridad de EMDR en el tratamiento de diferentes condiciones de dolor" (Tesarz, Wicking, Bernardy, & Seidler, 2019 (Vauthier, Paquet, Krumm, & Tarquinio, 2019).…”

“…Se apoya en la lógica, al analizar los comportamientos y patrones de los pacientes, aplicando la sistematización de los argumentos para la planificación terapéutica se puede comprobar la utilización de la lógica en sus procedimientos (Balbo et al, 2019;Rousseau et al, 2019;Tesarz et al, 2019). Utiliza la matemática, para evidenciar este criterio se debe considerar que los resultados de la mayoría de las investigaciones han aplicado: anova, correlaciones, estadística inferencial o inductiva, ensayos clínicos aleatorizados, meta análisis (Carletto et al, 2017;Fereidouni et al, 2019;Vauthier et al, 2019).…”