Re:Empirically Supported Treatments

"While that may be true (or once have been true) for therapy overall, it may not be true for trauma treatment. Within the trauma treatment literature it is pretty clear that the structured, focused treatments are more effective and efficient than the more generic therapy approaches."

I suspect that these structured focused treatments that MAY be effective are based on principals of cognitive-behavioral therapy. I also suspect that the focused treatments are effective on simple PTSD. That is single, or repeated similar, traumas. Cognitive-behavioral therapy has been proven effective for depression, and as I understand it, this category of people reflect very few people who actually suffer from depression. I suspect that that like depression, very specific populations of traumatized people will respond well to structured focused treatments.

Getting back to eye movements. It seems to me that in order to prove that eye movements, or any sort of bilateral stimulation, are healing that researchers will have to seperate out those people who are responding to the eye movments and those who are simply responding the the cognitive-behavioral component of the therapy.

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Re:Empirically Supported Treatments, by Barbara, 01/21/03 Re:Empirically Supported Treatments, by Cahill, 01/21/03 Re:Empirically Supported Treatments, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 01/21/03 Disseminating EMDR, by Cahill, 01/26/03 Re:Empirically Supported Treatments, by Barbara, 01/23/03 Always drink coffee, by Cahill, 01/23/03

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