About this Research Topic
This Research Topic is the third volume of the Research Topic "Present and Future of EMDR in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy". Please have a look at the first volume here and the second volume here.
EMDR has now demonstrated its effectiveness and applicability as a psychotherapeutic treatment for a variety of mental disorders beyond PTSD. Thus, EMDR is evolving from a method to a superordinate psychotherapeutic procedure with its own methodology and theoretical foundation in the AIP model. The continuation of current research findings on EMDR including but not limited to PTSD as a third research topic is intended to reflect this development.
The major objective of the present Research Topic is to collect new scientific evidence, clinical experiences, reviews, and opinion articles about EMDR in clinical health psychology and psychotherapy. Moreover, this Research Topic will focus on psychological factors, basic psychological processes, and theoretical models that could explain the role of EMDR in treatment processes, also considering the integration with other approaches.
The article collection welcomes papers related to not only the EMDR mechanism of functioning, but also its applications in new clinical fields: children and adolescents, as well as other anxiety disorders, mood disorders, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, treatment of the so-called “Complex Trauma”, and of the ongoing stress response related to the pandemic.
Particularly, this Research Topic will consider these types of studies:
• Original research articles from both experimental and non-experimental (observational) study designs
• Neurophysiology, Neuroscience, and Neuroimaging based study (also with neurobiological evidences)
• Conceptual papers addressing issues concerning the AIP Model
• Review articles (preferably systematic reviews) about the main clinical fields
• Meta-analysis about the efficacy of EMDR
• Clinical trials
• Clinical case studies and reports
• Qualitative studies
• Perspective articles and cost-effectiveness studies
• Personality Disorders
EMDR has now demonstrated its effectiveness and applicability as a psychotherapeutic treatment for a variety of mental disorders beyond PTSD. Thus, EMDR is evolving from a method to a superordinate psychotherapeutic procedure with its own methodology and theoretical foundation in the AIP model. The continuation of current research findings on EMDR including but not limited to PTSD as a third research topic is intended to reflect this development.
The major objective of the present Research Topic is to collect new scientific evidence, clinical experiences, reviews, and opinion articles about EMDR in clinical health psychology and psychotherapy. Moreover, this Research Topic will focus on psychological factors, basic psychological processes, and theoretical models that could explain the role of EMDR in treatment processes, also considering the integration with other approaches.
The article collection welcomes papers related to not only the EMDR mechanism of functioning, but also its applications in new clinical fields: children and adolescents, as well as other anxiety disorders, mood disorders, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, treatment of the so-called “Complex Trauma”, and of the ongoing stress response related to the pandemic.
Particularly, this Research Topic will consider these types of studies:
• Original research articles from both experimental and non-experimental (observational) study designs
• Neurophysiology, Neuroscience, and Neuroimaging based study (also with neurobiological evidences)
• Conceptual papers addressing issues concerning the AIP Model
• Review articles (preferably systematic reviews) about the main clinical fields
• Meta-analysis about the efficacy of EMDR
• Clinical trials
• Clinical case studies and reports
• Qualitative studies
• Perspective articles and cost-effectiveness studies
• Personality Disorders
Keywords: EMDR, PTSD, trauma, BLS, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Complex trauma, pandemic emergency, ongoing stress, online therapy, COVID-19
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