Re:Questions about Kitchur's SDM

I'm still not sure if I am understanding Kitchur's Strategic Developmental Model correctly. My understanding is that SDM is touted as a complete therapeautic program; major elements of this model include assessment using a genogram, the results of which become a treatment plan, providing a chronological set of targets to be processed with EMDR. Do I have the gist of this model? Does SDM, then, consist of 2 main components: 1) a genogram-facilitated developmental systems assessment of personal trauma history, and 2) processing the resulting targets with EMDR?
If so, then this model seems to contradict statements about EMDR I have read in posts on this forum and elsewhere. Can you speak to the following discrepancies:

1) Robert O'Brien states that EMDR is not a school of therapy in itself, yet this model appears to be used as a total therapy treatment program in and of itself. I have read that EMDR should be used as only one component of a comprehensive treatment plan. This model, in itself, does not incorporate other therapeautic components, such as ego-state therapy, phychodynamic therapy, etc. In addition, it does not appear to include the components of ego strengthening, resource devolopment and skills building pieces that you cite in an earlier post in reference to a comprehensive treatment plan.

2) In that same post, you state that "rarely is EMDR used every week, as typically people need some sessions to talk and other work than EMDR." Kitchur's model seems to conflict with this excellent advice you give: its focus on following assessment with processing targets chronologically until all trauma memory targets are completed suggests that EMDR be used every session.

I find these contradictions confusing, and would appreciate any light you can shed on them.

Thanks for the time you put into answering posts on this forum. I appreciate your thorough responses.

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Re:Questions about Kitchur's SDM, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 01/18/01

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