Re: associated research

Hi. So far the most important factors appear to be type of problem and treatment fidelity.

Those being treated for a single (discrete) traumatic memory seem to respond most quickly; along the same vein, if only one traumatic memory was contributing to post-traumatic symptoms (PTS), EMDR for that memory is likely to have a larger and quicker effect on PTS. This does not mean that EMDR does not work for chronic trauma and for other problems related to incompletely processed upsetting memories, only that the single-trauma cases seem to show the quickest and most dramatic effects.

A number of reviewers have noted that good treatment fidelity is associated with good outcomes with EMDR, and vice versa. I have heard of a meta-analysis with the same conclusion, but I believe it has not been published yet.

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