The Effectiveness of EMDR in a Child Guidance Center  

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Rubin, Allen ; Bischofshausen, Sharon ; Conroy-Moore, Kelly ; Dennis, Beth ; Hastie, Mike ; Melnick, Linda ; Reeves, Donna ; Smith, Teresa

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Research on Social Work Practice vol. 11 no. 4 (Jul. 2001), page 435-457.
Fulltext: 435RSWP114.pdf (102.36KB)

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Objective: This study evaluated the effectiveness of adding EMDR to the routine treatment regimen of child therapists. Method: Thirty-nine child guidance center clients were randomly assigned to an experimental group that receivedEMDRplus the center’s routine treatment package or a control group that received only the center’s routine treatment package. Results: Analyses of variance found no significant differences in Child Behavior Checklist scores between groups. Subanalyses conducted for 33 clients with elevated pretest scores found moderate effect sizes that approached, but fell short of, statistical significance. Conclusions: These findings raise doubts about notions thatEMDRproduces rapid and dramatic improvements with children whose emotional and behavioral problems are not narrowly connected to a specific trauma and who require improvisational deviations from the standard EMDR protocol. Further research is needed in light of the special difficulties connected to implementing theEMDRprotocol with clients like those in this study.

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