Alcohol Use and EMDR
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Duration 7mins 36secs
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In this session, Dr Jennifer Sweeton investigates how EMDR can be used to help treat alcohol and substance use. She explains how trauma is most often behind substance abuse, outlining the research findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Dr Sweeton highlights the importance of treating both trauma and addiction at the same time. She suggests strategies to help clinicians use EMDR to treat addiction, including ways to enter those addiction neural networks and move to an adaptive resolution to reduce cravings and relapses over time.
This session is part of the Wisemind.com Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, EMDR Therapy Skills Series.
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In this session, Dr Jennifer Sweeton investigates how EMDR can be used to help treat alcohol and substance use. She explains how trauma is most often behind substance abuse, outlining the research findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Dr Sweeton highlights the importance of treating both trauma and addiction at the same time....
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In this session, Dr Jennifer Sweeton investigates treating combat trauma with EMDR. She outlines the effectiveness of using EMDR with combat veterans, highlighting how there is often a generalisation of healing that occurs. Dr Sweeton recommends combining elements of different evidence-based therapies for PTSD in a strategic way to receive the best possible outcome.
Depression and EMDR
In this session, Dr Jennifer Sweeton investigates treating depression with EMDR. She explains how depression neural networks form, examining the neuroscience research behind this. Dr Sweeton discusses the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), and how it is connected to the default mode network and impacts on depression.
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