Re:cool web site except its wrong

Here's the paragraph on EMDR from that website.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is promoted for the treatment of post-traumatic stress, phobias, learning disorders, and many other mental and emotional problems. The method involves asking the client to recall the traumatic event as vividly as possible and rate certain feelings before and after visually tracking the therapist's finger as it is moved back and forth in front of the client's eyes [6]. EMDR's developer and leading proponent, Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., received her nonaccredited doctoral degree in 1988 and established the EMDR Institute to train mental health professionals. She and her associates have trained more than 22,000 clinicians worldwide in workshops that in 1997 cost $385 [7]. EMDR resembles various traditional behavioral therapies for reducing fears in that it requires clients to imagine traumatic events in a gradual fashion in the presence of a supportive therapist. However, controlled research has shown that EMDR's most distinctive feature (visual tracking) is unnecessary and is irrelevant to whatever benefits the patient may receive [8]. Recent reviews have concluded that the data claimed to support EMDR derive mostly from uncontrolled case reports and poorly designed controlled experiments and that the theory of EMDR clashes with scientific knowledge of the role of eye movements [9,10].

1. There is more controlled research on EMDR than on any other method that treats PTSD.

2. There are now three metanalyses on EMDR that look at the research. They find EMDR efficacious along with exposure therapy for PTSD.

3. The most recent metanalysis examines the degree to which each study on EMDR follows Foa's Gold Standard for research design. The more closely a study met the gold standard, the more likely it was to find EMDR to be efficacious,.

4. The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies finds EMDR to be efficacious.

5. The American Psychological Association finds EMDR to be efficacious.

6. The fee the Institute charges for training includes the cost of having not only an instructor but one facilitator per group of nine attendees, so they get supervised clinical experience for this complicated procedure (which is different from how it is described in the paragraph above).

7. There are now over 50,000 people trained in EMDR worldwide.

Other than that, its a cool website.

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