Full Description
The loss of a loved one can be very painful, with the mourner losing an important source of safety, connection, and life balance. Even when uncomplicated, bereavement can have a significant impact on the mourner. Traumatic circumstances can intensify the grief and complicate the mourning process.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy, an evidenced based treatment for trauma, can help process the trauma of the loss and the obstacles that interfere with the grief and mourning process. In this book, Roger M. Solomon guides the EDMR therapist through the treatment process by understanding grief reactions and the mourning process, providing an overall model of EMDR treatment for grief and mourning, and highlighting how EMDR can help a mourner experience a positive sense of connection through heartfelt, meaningful memories.
The author presents an integrative model for EMDR therapy treatment based on the Adaptive Information Processing Model (AIP), which guides EMDR therapy. Several models of grief and mourning that inform EMDR treatment and a discussion of the eight phases and three prongs (past, present, and future) of EMDR therapy are presented, with many case examples including transcripts of sessions, to illustrate treatment principles and clinical teaching points.
A scripted protocol summary to assist the clinician in applying the therapeutic framework presented in this text is available at www.oup.co.uk/companion/Solomon ."
Contents
Foreword
My Journey with EMDR Therapy
Introduction
Section 1: EMDR Therapy, and Grief and Mourning
1: EMDR Therapy with Grief and Mourning
2: Grief and Mourning
3: Impact of Loss: Internal and Interpersonal Changes
4: Traumatic Bereavement
5: Complicated Grief and Mourning
Section 2 Grief and Mourning Frameworks
6: Attachment Theory
7: Models of Grief: Continuing Bonds Theory
8: The Dual Process Model of Grief
9: The "R" Processes of Mourning
Section 3 EMDR Therapy Integrative Treatment Model
10: Comprehensive Model for EMDR Therapy with Grief and Mourning
11: Three-Pronged Protocol: First Prong - Past Memories
12: Three-Pronged Protocol: Second and Third Prong - Present Triggers and Future Template
Section 4 Eight Phases of EMDR Therapy
13: Phase 1: History Taking and Treatment Planning
14: Phase 2: Preparation and Stabilization
15: Introduction to Reprocessing Phases
16: Phase 3: Target Assessment
17: Phase 4: Desensitzation
18: Phases 5-8: Installation, Body Scan, Closure, and Reevaluation
19: Roger Solomon, Onno van der Hart, and Kathy Martin: Grief and Mourning with Complex Trauma and Trauma-Generated Dissociation of the Personality
20: Closing Thoughts
Appendix 1: EMDR Therapy Treatment of Grief and Mourning with Death Due to COVID-19
Appendix 2: Transcripts of Sessions
Appendix 3: Psychological First Aid
Appendix 4: EMDR PROTOCOL FOR RECENT CRITICAL INCIDENTS AND ONGOING TRAUMATIC STRESS (EMDR-PRECI) AND EMDR RECENT EVENT PROTOCOL (R-TEP)
Appendix 5: Additional Resources
