Implementing EMDR Early Mental Health Interventions for Man-Made and Natural Disasters: Models, Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets

627 Pages·2013·27.212 MB·English

by  Marilyn Luber

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protocols and models they developed to respond to disaster. The book describes two of the most commonly used
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of interventions subsequent to natural disasters, warfare, and massacres in Turkey, Asia, the Middle East, South L
and Central America, and the United States. Interventions that can be put to use on site and posttrauma are H
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ISBN 978-0-8261-9921-8
MARILYN LUBER
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Implementing EMDR Early
Mental Health Interventions
for Man-Made
and Natural Disasters
Marilyn Luber, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in general private practice in
Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was trained in eye movement desensitiza-
tion and reprocessing (EMDR) in 1992 by Dr. Francine Shapiro, and now assists in EMDR
Institute trainings as a facilitator and logistics coordinator. She has coordinated trainings
in EMDR-related fields in the greater Philadelphia area since 1997. She teaches Facilitator
and Supervisory trainings and other EMDR-related subjects both nationally and internation-
ally, and was on the EMDR Task Force for Dissociative Disorders. She was on the found-
ing board of directors of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) and served as the
chair of the International Committee until June 1999. Currently, she is a facilitator in the
EMDR Global Alliance, a group consisting of the leaders of all the EMDR associations who
are working to support standards in EMDR worldwide. In 1997, Dr. Luber was given a
Humanitarian Services Award by the EMDR Humanitarian Association, and later, in 2003,
she was presented with the EMDR International Association’s award for “outstanding con-
tribution and service to EMDRIA.” In 2005, she was awarded the Francine Shapiro Award
for “outstanding contribution and service to EMDR.” In 2009, she edited Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Basics and Special Situations
and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Special Pop-
ulations published by Springer Publishing Company. Several years later, in 2012, she edited
Springer’s first CD-ROM books, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Scripted Protocols With Summary Sheets CD-ROM Version: Basics and Special Situations and
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols With Summary
Sheets CD-ROM Version: Special Populations. In 2001, through EMDR-HAP (Humanitarian
Assistance Programs), she published Handbook for EMDR Clients and it has been translated
into eight languages. She has written the “Around the World” and “In the Spotlight” articles
for the EMDRIA Newsletter four times a year since 1997. She has worked as a primary con-
sultant for the FBI field division in Philadelphia. Dr. Luber has a general psychology prac-
tice, working with adolescents, adults, and couples, especially with complex post-traumatic
stress disorder (C-PTSD), trauma and related issues, and dissociative disorders. She runs
consultation groups for EMDR practitioners.
Implementing EMDR Early
Mental Health Interventions
for Man-Made and Natural
Disasters: Models, Scripted
Protocols, and Summary Sheets
Edited by
Marilyn Luber, PhD
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To my mother, who has been going through her own recent trauma
with the spirit and true determination
that she has always displayed throughout her life:
a role model for us all.

Epigraph
We are all responsible for the world we live in. Worldwide, clinicians are forging bonds
that transcend countries and ideologies. Bonds that can help heal the trauma and pain
that lead to ongoing violence and suffering. To make a difference that effects generations
to come—don’t leave it to anyone else. We all have to take a part in it.
—Francine Shapiro

Contents
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Robert Gelbach
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxix
PART I
Early Mental Health Intervention Response: An International Perspective
Chapter 1 Perspectives on International Postdisaster Response: Israel’s
Community Stress Prevention Center (CSPC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Alan Cohen and Mooli Lahad
Summary Sheet: Perspectives on International Postdisaster Response:
Israel’s Community Stress Prevention Center (CSPC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Chapter 2 The Turkish Mental Health Response and Training Program: Model
for Developing Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Emre Konuk and Zeynep Zat
Summary Sheet: The Turkish Mental Health Response and Training
Program: Model for Developing Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Chapter 3 Spain: The Evolution of Mental Health Response in Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Maria Cervera
Summary Sheet: Spain: The Evolution of Mental Health Response
in Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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Chapter 4 Recent Trauma Response: Actions for an Early Psychological
Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Ignacio Jarero and Susana Uribe
Summary Sheet: Recent Trauma Response: Actions for an Early
Psychological Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
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