The Following are the Learning Objectives for the CompassionWorks EMDR Therapist Training.
EMDR Therapist Training Learning Objectives for Weekend 1
- Identify how to integrate and apply the standard EMDR therapy to psychotherapy
- Practice using the standard EMDR Procedure to feel competent
- Explain the development of EMDR therapy
- Recognize the current inclusion of EMDR therapy in treatment guidelines
- Distinguish, identify and explain the concepts of the AIP model
- Compare and summarize how to differentiate EMDR therapy and the AIP model from other psychotherapy approaches
- Identify and apply the EMDR’s Eight phase treatment procedure
- Analyze how to describe EMDR’s Three-pronged approach
- Apply and integrate EMDR safeguards.
- Rank the effects of “Big—T” and “Little-T” Trauma
- Summarize how to distinguish how EMDR helps with impairments in social, occupational, health, relational, and other areas of functioning
- Recognize the implicit and explicit memory functioning
- Identify and summarize memory linkage and association
- 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
- Compare and summarize EMDR from psychodynamic, CBT, experiential, and other therapy models
EMDR Therapist Training Learning Objectives for Weekend 2
- Practice, identify and summarize the 8-Phases of EMDR therapy
- Demonstrate and practice how to apply Resource Development & Installation (RDI)
- Recognize how to handle Abreactions
- Explain, identify and apply Strategies for Blocked Processing
- how to recognize Types of Blocked Processing
- Demonstrate and practice how and analyze how to handle looping
- Explain and evaluate how to process and resolve feeder memories
- Distinguish how to apply and demonstrate the Appropriate Application of Cognitive Interweaves
- Compare how to recognize the types of feeder cognitive interweaves and how to apply them
- Apply, demonstrate and practice how to apply the Future Template.
- Select and apply Advanced Methodology: Additional protocols and specific populations
- Explain how to identify and evaluate Professional and Legal Issues
- Demonstrate how to evaluate how RDI is used to develop positive introjects, increase affect regulation and adaptive responses
- Contrast how to practice and use the RDI procedure.
- Apply and practice how to identify and use the Recent Event Protocol
- Explain and summarize traumatic event protocols
- Analyze how to recognize how to use EMDR with Complex PTSD
