This handbook, featuring contributions from over thirty experts, explores the latest developments in EMDR for children and adolescents.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a proven effective treatment for reprocessing distressing memories of adverse and traumatic events. This handbook, featuring contributions from over thirty experts, explores the latest developments in EMDR for children and adolescents. It covers the treatment's background, scientific research, and implementation, along with its application in various psychopathologies, target groups, and settings.
Offering a comprehensive overview of EMDR's impact on young individuals, the book also supports the standardization of EMDR training for children and adolescents worldwide. Additionally, it aims to inspire new research by integrating insights from both scientific studies and clinical practice. Written in clear, accessible language, it is enriched with case studies that illustrate practical applications.
Part I. Trauma And EMDR With Children & Adolescents
1: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: Starting Points
2: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: The Impact Of Trauma
3: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: Empirical Research
4: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: Case Conceptualization
5: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: EMDR Indications
6: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: Parents And Families
7: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: Adjustments In EMDR Therapy And In The
Protocol For Children And Adolescents (4-18)
8: Carlijn de Roos & Renée Beer: EMDR Storytelling: Reprocessing Preverbal
Traumatic Memories
9: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: Interweaves
10: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: Stressregulation
11: Renée Beer & Carlijn De Roos: Group Protocols
Part II. EMDR For C&A With Specific Psychopathologies: Preparation And
Treatment
12: Arianne Struik: Preparing Resistant Children For EMDR With The Sleeping
Dogs Method
13: Arianne Tjeenk, Tirtsa Ehrlich, Anneke Eenhoorn: EMDR For C&A With ADHD
14: Esther Leuning & Petra Spuijbroek: EMDR For C&A With Autism
15: Lieke Doornkate, Jeantine Janse, Gerarda Jeannette Wieten: EMDR For Deaf
And Hard Of Hearing Children And Children With Developmental Language
Problems
16: Liesbeth Mevissen: EMDR For C&A With Mental Disabilities
17: Kirsten Hauber & Arianne Struik: EMDR For C&A With Dissociative
Disorders
18: Steven Meijer, Agaath Koudstaal, & Laurian Hafkemeijer: EMDR For
Adolescents With Borderline Personality Disorder
Part III. EMDR In Specific Settings: Preparation And Treatment Of The
System
19: Mirjam Heinemans, Jacqueline Van Baar & Thimo Poel: EMDR For Adolescents
In The Forensic Mental Health System
20: Esty Bar Sade & Barbara Wizansky: EMDR In Children: A Dyadic Approach
With Playful Interventions
21: Debra Wesselmann, Irma Hein & Nathalie Schlattmann: Integrative
Attachment Trauma Protocol For Children
22: Joanne Morris-Smith & Michel Silvestre: EMDR And Family Therapy With
Families Following Child Abuse
23: Trudy Mooren: Emdr Therapy In Refugee Families: Custom Work
24: Caroline Ploeg, Henriët Scholts, Lysbert Zeinstra, Femy Wanders: Emdr In
An Inpatient Setting: Kings - Kid In Good System
Renée Beer is a clinical psychologist, cognitive behavioral therapist, EMDR Europe accredited trainer in EMDR with children & adolescents, and certified trainer in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She chairs the EMDR Europe Child & Adolescent Trainers, works in private practice and coordinated a trauma center in the past. Renée provides trainings together with Carlijn de Roos and publishes about the treatment of children with trauma-related problems. She specialized in the treatment of patients with an eating disorder with CBT and EMDR and published about both. Currently she is involved in international projects disseminating EMDR and TF-CBT in Ukraine.
Carlijn de Roos is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist working with children and adolescents with PTSD, other trauma-related symptoms and/or suffering from persistent physical symptoms like chronic pain. She currently works at Levvel, the Academic Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (AMC). In addition to her clinical work, she is an EMDR consultant and an EMDR trainer for children & adolescents accredited by EMDR Europe. She previously served as the president of the EMDR Association the Netherlands and currently chairs the EMDR Europe Child & Adolescent Committee. Carlijn is also a senior researcher and member of several research committees. Her doctoral thesis focused on time-limited trauma-focused treatment for children and adolescents.
