For Psychologists

EMDR has been approved as first line treatments in numerous international guidelines: http://www.EMDRHAP.org/researchandresources.htm

In 1997 an independent taskforce under the auspices of the Clinical Division of the American Psychological Association evaluated all forms of psychotherapy to find those that were empirically supported by research. Three treatments, exposure therapy, stress inoculation therapy, and EMDR were given essentially the same status for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. After further investigation, these three treatments are now listed on an NIMH sponsored website as the treatments of choice for PTSD: http://www.therapyadvisor.com

The American Psychological Association [http://www.apa.org] offers CEU's for EMDR courses, as well as a video tape and text:

EMDR for trauma: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. American Psychological Association Psychotherapy Videotape series II

Shapiro, F. (2002). (Ed.). EMDR as an integrative psychotherapy approach: Experts of diverse orientations explore the paradigm prism. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.