Module I
January 10, 2025 to January 12, 2025
Three days via online live interactive webinar format
(14.5 hours didactic, 1.0 how 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 Readings
1. Readings from Shapiro (2018)
- 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)
- Appendix E. Client Safety, EMDR Dissociative Disorders Task Force Recommended Guidelines: A General Guide to EMDR’s Use in the Dissociative Disorders (pp. 498-502)
2. Readings from ISSTD EMDR Therapy Training Manual (see detailed agenda)
3. Additional required reading
Target Audience
Beginning/Introductory
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to:
Asynchronous (Pre-Module I Recorded Material)
- Define simple trauma, complex trauma, and traumatic dissociation
- 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
- Describe the Polyvagal Theory and its contribution to understandings about EMDR therapy and dissociative processes
Day One
- 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
- Name at least five characteristics, clinical signs, or symptoms of traumatic dissociation
- Name, and provide a brief description for, the three stages of trauma treatment
- Describe the purpose of EMDR Phase VI: Closure
Day Two
- Name at least three informal/relational signs of trauma-related symptoms and dissociation
- Identify at least five trauma-related screening and assessment options
- Describe how to score a dissociation screening instrument (the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES-II))
- Name at least three indicators of readiness for standard EMDR therapy
Day Three
- Name at least three ‘Red Flags’ for pathological dissociation
- Define Dual Attention Stimulus (DAS) and name three forms typically used in EMDR therapy
- Name and briefly describe Kluft’s three Treatment Trajectories
- Name at least two strategies for stabilizing and containing traumatic material
Available Credit
- 16.75 APAThe 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.
- 16.75 ASWB ACEThe International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 16.75 continuing education credits.