Your therapist colleague tells you about a client with posttraumatic stress disorder for whom she has recommended treatment with EMDR. She asks you for your opinion. Based on your understanding of the literature to date, select a response from the following:
a. EMDR is based on learning theory principles and is a well-established effective treatment for trauma disorders.
b. EMDR has no theoretical basis and has not proven effective for treatment of any disorder.
c. EMDR most closely resembles other exposure treatments and EMDR is a validated treatment for PTSD.
d. EMDR is derived from classical conditioning and results of efficacy studies remain equivocal.
Question 2
A key aspect of the therapeutic relationship in EMDR is:
a. to maximize ongoing empathy over the course of treatment.
b. to insure that clients will not dissociate.
c. to refrain from providing empathic statements during processing phase.
d. to maximize the interweave of clinician-derived statements with client-generated material to facilitate processing.
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