EMDR Therapist Training Objectives

The Following are the Learning Objectives for the CompassionWorks EMDR Therapist Training. 

EMDR Therapist Training Learning Objectives for Weekend 1

1. Identify how to integrate and apply the standard EMDR therapy to psychotherapy
2. Practice using the standard EMDR Procedure to feel competent
3. Explain the development of EMDR therapy
4. Recognize the current inclusion of EMDR therapy in treatment guidelines
5. Distinguish, identify and explain the concepts of the AIP model
6. Compare and summarize how to differentiate EMDR therapy and the AIP model from other psychotherapy approaches
7. Identify and apply the EMDR’s Eight phase treatment procedure
8. Analyze how to describe EMDR’s Three-pronged approach
9. Apply and integrate EMDR safeguards.
10. Rank the effects of “Big—T” and “Little-T” Trauma
11. Summarize how to distinguish how EMDR helps with impairments in social, occupational, health, relational, and other areas of functioning
12. Recognize the implicit and explicit memory functioning
13.  Identify and summarize memory linkage and association
14. Recognize how EMDR processing causes an adaptive shift in all components of the memory, including sense of time and age, symptoms, reactive behaviors, and sense of self
15. Compare and summarize EMDR from psychodynamic, CBT, experiential, and other therapy models

EMDR Therapist Training Learning Objectives for Weekend 2

1. Practice, identify and summarize the 8-Phases of EMDR therapy
2. Demonstrate and practice how to apply Resource Development & Installation (RDI)
3. Recognize how to handle Abreactions
4. Explain, identify and apply Strategies for Blocked Processing
5.  how to recognize Types of Blocked Processing
6. Demonstrate and practice how and analyze how to handle looping
7. Explain and evaluate how to process and resolve feeder memories
8. Distinguish how to apply and demonstrate the Appropriate Application of Cognitive Interweaves
9. Compare how to recognize the types of feeder cognitive interweaves and how to apply them
10. Apply, demonstrate and practice how to apply the Future Template.
11. Select and apply Advanced Methodology: Additional protocols and specific populations
12. Explain how to identify and evaluate Professional and Legal Issues
13. Demonstrate how to evaluate how RDI is used to develop positive introjects, increase affect regulation and adaptive responses
14. Contrast how to practice and use the RDI procedure.
15. Apply and practice how to identify and use the Recent Event Protocol
16. Explain and summarize traumatic event protocols
17. Analyze how to recognize how to use EMDR with Complex PTSD