Peak performance

• EMDR and Children/Adolescents by Ricky Greenwald, 1/29/98
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    • emdr installation of positive qualities by a. k. guyer, 4/6/98
      
      

In general, EMDR clinical work concentrates on both disturbance and enhancement: the reprocessing of earlier disturbing events, and present triggers, and the incorporation of positive qualities and behaviors. The recent controlled PTSD studies reflect these aspects. However, there are only a couple of publications that concentrate primarily on the incorporation of positive qualities and learning enhancement. The sports psychology/peak performance work does not traditionally attend to reprocessing major trauma. However, it generally does initially target any previous experiences that are causing the client to feel uncertain about the ability to excel:

Foster, S. & Lendl, J. (1995). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Initial applications for enhancing performance in athletes. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 7 (Supplement), 63.

Foster, S. & Lendl, J. (1996). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Four case studies of a new tool for executive coaching and restoring employee performance after setbacks. Consulting Psychology Journal, 48, 155-161.

The use of the safe place installation (Shapiro, 1995) and the resource installation (Leeds, 1997) have had widespread clinical support, but no separate studies have been done.

• Addendum by Shapiro, 4/7/98