SHAPIRO SERIES - PART 15 (END)

SHAPIRO SERIES #15 ? 15 of 15 ? LAST POST

Greetings. This is the final post in the SHAPIRO SERIES.

SLIDE #25
AVOID CONFUSION
* DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
o MECHANISM, MODEL, METHODOLOGY (COMPONENTS, PROCEDURES, PROTOCOLS)
o TECHNIQUES AND APPROACH
o SYMPTOM REDUCTION AND COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENT
o ACCESSING AND PROCESSING
o NECESSARY AND ADEQUATE RESOURCES
* HONE THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE EXPERIENTIAL CONTRIBUTORS
So areas of confusion, please, the difference between mechanism, model and methodology. The neurobiology, it doesn't matter which are the mechanisms, it's still the model, the guiding principles. The methodology is the procedures and protocols. There's a difference between technique and approach. If all you do is pull out EMDR to do it when someone's quote "stuck," you're doing a technique. If you're viewing it as the information and what do I look for in EMDR case conceptualization, this is EMDR as an approach. Know the difference between symptoms reduction and comprehensive treatment, the difference between accessing and processing. Just because you brought it up doesn't mean it's processing. You need to see the movement through the channels. And the difference between necessary and adequate resources - the client has adequate resources to process if they can close down disturbances and let whatever happens happen. You don't have to give them every resource they have experienced in their entire life before you start processing. And the ability to recognize negative and positive experiential contributors is important because information processing involves many things. This is the bottom line of my presentation. What are you concentrating on? What are you focused on? Symptom reduction? Are you stuck with this? The client came in with a phobia; the client came in because this was the complaint. Is this all you?re going to do? Or do you look at the entire picture? Because processing involves all of this. The client won't even know it's possible unless you let them know.

So know yourself as well as your client. Provide your client with an opportunity to progress as far as they want to go, in as many areas of their life as they choose. And accept the fact that they may go further in their growth than you had imagined.

So it?s our responsibility to understand what is and is not The EMDR Approach. We need to know it?s protocols and procedures, and how our innovative interventions operate within that framework. And most importantly, to accurately provide the client with the information the need to make an informed consent regarding their treatment goals and outcomes.

Thank you

Francine Shapiro

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