Re: Lying

Several points here:

1) It is the easiest thing in the world to fool a therapist - all one has to do is lie. Unless one is a prison psychologist or working with another predictably distortive population, deliberate or non-deliberate distortion is always possible. Therapists working with a general population usually adopt a believing posture until it is proven that someone isn't reliable.
2) The therapist may have been wrong that the adolescent improved if the adolescent was lying about her improvement.
3) The therapist may have been right about the adolescent improving if the adolescent actually processed something during her EMDR processing (though apparently not what was being targeted).
4) I'd recommend that the client return to the same therapist, admit her deception, admit her guilt and her willingness to address honesty and what lying means to her, and use EMDR to process that.
5) If the adolescent wishes to lie again, it will be possible to do so. If she wishes to grow and get to the bottom of the issue, I suspect she can accomplish it.

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