Module I

Module I - Two days via online live interactive webinar format (12 hours didactic, 1 hour practicum)

Prior to each training module, participants should prepare by completing the following minimum reading from the required materials:

Shapiro, F. (2018). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (Emdr) therapy: basic principles, protocols, and procedures. New York: The Guilford Press.

Module I:

  • Chapter 1, Background (pp. 1-24)
  • Chapter 2, Adaptive Information Processing: The Model as a Working Hypothesis (pp. 25-51)
  • Chapter 3, Components of EMDR Therapy and Basic Treatment Effects (pp. 65-71 only)
  • Chapter 4, Phase One: Client History (pp. 85-112)
  • Chapter 6, Phases Four to Seven: Desensitization, Installation, Body Scan, and Closure (Phase Seven, pp. 155-159 only)
  • Chapter 12, Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications (pp. 349-428)
  • Go With That Magazine Fall 2020, Volume 25, Issue 3 [EMDR & Racial Trauma]

Additional Resources

 

Target Audience

Content Level: Beginning/Introductory

Learning Objectives

Module I
Day One

  • Define simple trauma, complex trauma, and traumatic dissociation
  • Name at least five characteristics, clinical signs, or symptoms of traumatic  dissociation
  • Describe the Polyvagal Theory and its contribution to understandings about EMDR therapy and dissociative processes
  • Define the elements of the Window of Tolerance framework and its relevance for understanding autonomic nervous system arousal, survival and defensive responses, and attachment challenges
  • Define EMDR therapy
  • Name, and provide a brief description for, the eight phases and three prongs of EMDR therapy
  • Describe the major features of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model that informs case conceptualization and treatment in EMDR therapy

Day Two

  • Name, and provide a brief description for, the three stages of trauma treatment
  • Name at least three ‘Red Flags’ for pathological dissociation
  • Identify at least five trauma-related screening and assessment options
  • Describe how to score the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES-II)
     
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 12.00 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 12.00 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 12.00 continuing education credits.
Course opens: 
08/31/2021
Course expires: 
08/31/2022
Part of: 
ISSTD EMDR Therapy Training 2021-2022
Rating: 
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Available Credit

  • 12.00 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 12.00 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 12.00 continuing education credits.
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Required Hardware/software

ISSTD uses Zoom for our virtual EMDR Modules. Information on system requirements can be found here.