EMDR Therapy Following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: A Community-Based Intervention Project in New York City. |
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Authors: | Silver, Steven M. Rogers, Susan Knipe, James Colelli, Gina |
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Abstract: | This article presents the results of a time-limited psychological relief effort using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Clients made highly significant positive gains on a range of outcome variables, including validated psychometrics and self-report scales. Analyses of the data suggest 2 broad conclusions: EMDR is a useful treatment intervention both in the immediate aftermath of disaster as well as later; the longer treatment is delayed, the greater the level of disturbance experienced by clients. Also discussed are problems in conducting research during mass disaster response situations. A demonstration of an analog to a wait-list control group is provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Keywords: | eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy September 11 terrorist attacks World Trade Center community-based intervention New York City psychological relief effort |
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