The third edition presents innovative child and adolescent EMDR therapy approaches and tools designed to meet the challenges of today's youth
Written for all EMDR child therapists - new and seasoned - this text is a comprehensive guide toward the effective practice of EMDR therapy with children, from infants to adolescents. It offers step-by-step instructions translating each of the eight phases in creative and developmentally appropriate ways for children and teenagers while providing advanced protocols for therapists. The third edition combines the updated guide and accompanying treatment manual into one volume for greater convenience. Chapters now integrate content, explanations, and instructions with associated checklists, protocols, and worksheets for quick access to crucial information. The book also provides new leading-edge chapters on EMDR therapy regarding telehealth, cultural and social responsiveness, and addictions and includes inventive methods, techniques, resources, and protocols.
Additionally, the third edition features engaging exercises for target identification, a child client readiness checklist, and a brochure explaining EMDR therapy with children. The book offers abundant case examples, drawings, tables, detailed scripts, and complete instructions along with useful links and resources for therapists to apply in their practice. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.
New to the Third Edition:
Streamlines content, scripts, checklists, protocols and instructions combining them with the treatment manual in one handy book
Introduces groundbreaking new chapters on EMDR therapy and telehealth, cultural and social responsiveness, and addiction - highlighting addictions to screens
Expands Phase One of EMDR therapy - History-Taking, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment Planning - into two chapters emphasizing the complexity in working with children
Addresses contemporary areas of trauma, including COVID-19, school refusal, climate change, school shootings, and political divisiveness
Updates chapter references and resources and reflects gender neutral pronouns
Key Features:
Integrates powerful, creative play and art therapy interventions with EMDR therapy
Offers child-friendly exercises for target identification
Contains a reference table listing developmental adjustments to the eight phases of EMDR therapy for children 0 to 18 years old
Provides a chapter on diagnoses specific to children, including attachment, dissociation, neurodiversity, and more
Author Biography:
Robbie Adler-Tapia, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has worked with children and families for over 35 years. Her work as a psychologist, educator, consultant, researcher, and writer has been at the cutting edge of trauma treatment in young children. She has extensive experience in child welfare, the forensic arena, and working with first responders and public safety officials. Dr. Adler-Tapia presents internationally on treating trauma in children, including using EMDR therapy for attachment and dissociation. She has taught graduate- level coursework and supervised interns. Her volunteer work includes promoting EMDR therapy for the most vulnerable children, including training therapists worldwide who work in the child welfare system and those working with children orphaned by AIDS; she also assists Post Incident Stress and Trauma in Law Enforcement (PISTLE), a nonprofit for those working in law enforcement.
Carolyn Settle, MSW, LCSW, lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has over 44 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced abuse, trauma, and/or loss. She has presented and written about children and adolescents in her coauthored book EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy With Children: Guidebook and Treatment Manual (2023), now in its third edition. She has presented at numerous EMDR conferences nationally and internationally and will soon release an international course on EMDR with children. She is also the coinvestigator of a fidelity study concerning EMDR with children, and she has coauthored three chapters and three journal articles on EMDR with children. She is an EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)-approved consultant and an EMDR Institute trainer.
