Delivers an EMDR model that can expand access to urgently needed mental health services while maintaining affordability

This innovative handbook is the first to present EMDR Group Therapy as a pragmatic approach to trauma care that enables practitioners to scale up mental health services while ensuring cost and time efficiency. It delivers step-by-step guidance—supported by real-life case examples—for practicing this safe, effective, and culturally adaptable modality in a wide range of situations and conditions. EMDR group protocols are applicable to inpatient and outpatient settings, strangers experiencing similar or different events, families, and a wide range of ages. The book explores how and why EMDR group protocols are applicable to disaster response, addictions, schools, medical challenges, grief, families, refugees, victims of sexual violence, emergency responders and more.

The text describes the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of EMDR Group Therapy, comparing nine group protocols through the lens of the eight phases of EMDR therapy and early intervention principles. It emphasizes the concept of task sharing, allowing nonspecialist facilitators to deliver low-intensity EMDR treatment options effectively. To promote in-depth understanding, chapters provide Learning Objectives, Learned Through Experience boxes, Case Examples focusing on a variety of specific groups and problems, Discussion Questions to reinforce knowledge, and unique Pocket Guides refining protocols and derived techniques in a clear snapshot. A full Glossary of terms is also provided at the end of the book. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.

Key Features:

The first book to disseminate the principles and applications of Group EMDR Therapy
Delivers the knowledge of 36 contributing EMDR experts and researchers from 11 countries
Follows the eight phases of standard EMDR protocol
Offers a window into EMDR practice with a broad variety of specific groups and topics
Detailed cultural competence checklist for practitioners to provide care with respect for diversity
Includes multiple Case Examples, Learning Objectives, Learned Through Experience boxes, figures and charts, and much more
Provides Pocket Guides for a clear, easy-to-follow snapshot of group EMDR protocols

Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

SECTION I. INTRO TO GROUP AND EMDR

Chapter 1. From 1:1 to Group EMDR: Theory of EMDR and EMDR in Groups

Regina Morrow Robinson and Yesim Arikut Treece

Chapter 2. The Power of Groups and Checklist for Cultural Competence as a Practitioner of Group EMDR Therapy

Mark Nickerson

Chapter 3. Create Your Group EMDR Program

Regina Morrow Robinson and Yesim Arikut Treece

SECTION II. GROUP EMDR PROTOCOLS, PROCEDURES, AND DERIVED TECHNIQUES

Chapter 4. EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol-Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR IGTP-OTS)

Viviana Urdaneta Melo and Viviana Triana

Chapter 5. EMDR Group Traumatic Episode Protocol

Elan Shapiro

Chapter 6. EMDR Group Protocol for Children

Ümran Korkmazlar

Chapter 7. Action-Based EMDR Group Psychotherapy

André Maurício Monteiro

Chapter 8. The Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization Procedures

Nicolle Mainthow

Chapter 9. Group Flash Technique

Philip Manfield and Lewis Engel

Chapter 10. The Group Immediate Stabilization Procedure

Marilyn Luber and Gary Quinn

Chapter 11. The Journey of the Butterfly: G-TEP With Children

Ana M. Gomez

Chapter 12. Group Resource Enhancement Protocol

William Brislin and Maria Masciandaro

SECTION III. GROUP EMDR WITH DIFFERENT POPULATIONS OR IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS

Chapter 13. All Ages and Stages: Group EMDR Therapy for Children, Adolescents, and Families

Cherilyn Rowland Petrie and Gelly Asovski

Chapter 14. A Multimodule Group EMDR Intervention for Culturally Based Trauma and Adversity Reprocessing

Mark Nickerson

Chapter 15. Group EMDR Therapy With Forcibly Displaced Groups, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers

Asena Yurtsever and Emre Konuk

Chapter 16. You Are Not Alone: Sexual Violence Survivors EMDR Group Protocol

Ceit Robinson, Emma Sanderson, and Emma Heaney-Yeatts

Chapter 17. Group EMDR Inside Schools and Universities: A Natural Match

Anne-Marie T. Brown and Zeynep Zat Ciftci

Chapter 18. Reconnecting: Trauma, Addiction, and Group EMDR Therapy

Hope Payson

Chapter 19. Integrating Group EMDR Into Current Disaster Mental Health: A Model for Practice

Marlene Kenney

Chapter 20. Using Group EMDR With Emergency Responders Including Law Enforcement Professionals, Firefighters, Emergency Medical Professionals, and Emergency Communications Dispatchers

Robbie Adler-Tapia, Deborah Silveria, and Jade DeFrates

Chapter 21. Health–Medical Challenges and Grief: Group EMDR Therapy for Patients and Caregivers

Charlotte Archuletta and Vanessa Grandjean

Chapter 22. Scaling Up Trauma Treatment: Low-Intensity AIP-Informed Group Interventions

Shiraz Farrand, Cécile Bizouerne, and Adeline Pupat

Chapter 23. The Future Possibilities of Group EMDR Therapy

Regina Morrow Robinson and Safa Kemal Kaptan

Glossary

Index

Authors

Regina Morrow Robinson, EdS, has more than 36 years of clinical experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist and mental health counselor, 28 years as an EMDR therapist, and nearly 22 years in private practice. She has also practiced in a medical setting and school. Her clinical focus has been on trauma, relationship concerns, and mentoring developing therapists. She is an EMDRIA Basic and R-TEP/G-TEP Trainer, providing trainings for EMDRHAP, EMDR Institute, and Connect Training and Consulting.

Safa Kemal Kaptan, PhD, is a researcher in the field of mental health and holds a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Manchester, UK. His research focuses on traumatic reactions, psychosis, and early parenting practices among forcibly displaced including refugees and asylum seekers with young children. He published several peer-reviewed articles including first systematic review of Group EMDR protocols in 2021. He was invited to present the findings of this review at the 2021 EMDR Europe Conference. Safa is actively involved in the process of making EMDR Group therapy more accessible to adults, adolescents, and children by co-facilitating EMDR trainings.

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