EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Training Survey - Lipke
Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD · 10/30/02 at 5:26 PM ET
I can't find the place now where we discussed whether training is necessary -- maybe we can start naming our posts better as to topic within a particular post instead of just carrying on the name of the thread, hmm?? But I wanted to remind readers of Howard Lipke's survey was published as Appendix D in the 1995 edition of Shapiro's book (and my 2nd edition is still missing from my library, so I'm not sure if it is still Appendix D). It's not controlled research, but it is a surgery of over 1500 clinicians trained in EMDR by Francine Shapiro before February 1992. One of several findings of the survey was that of 409 respondents, 77 percent found the supervised clinical practice that is seminal to the training to be extremely important, an additional 20 percent found that training to be somewhat important. 3 per cent found the training to be not important. While I'm citing from that study, Lipke further found that the trainees' personal experiences as clients during the training practicum was rated on a 7 point Likert scale. Almost all (86%) rated the practicum client experience as above average (0 on the scale) in helpfulness, (28% rated it +1, 26% rated it +2, and 32+ rated it very helpful, which was +3). 7% rated the practicum experience as below average in helpfulness (4% rated it -1, 2% rated it -2 and 1% rated it -3 or very harmful). It is interesting that all those attending the training, by definition, are mental health professionals, who presumably had many prior opportunities to deal with personal issues. Yet, the EMDR experience was rated as helpful by the great majority, suggesting that the procedure has a positive effect. Note: obviously this is not a controlled treatment study and it is not examining a clinical sample.
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