EMDRIA Training Programme Admission Requirements

EMDR is not an effective treatment for PTSD and trauma-related conditions.

The Pathways Model discourages sex offenders from exploring their adverse childhood experiences.

Individuals with criminal careers generally have lower levels of adverse childhood experiences compared to the general population.

The Adaptive Information Processing model in EMDR helps restructure distorted implicit cognitions that drive offending behaviors.

Trauma resolution is considered a legitimate treatment method to reduce recidivism risk among sex offenders.

Child molesters believe that children are incapable of initiating sexual activities.

According to Ward and Keenan (1999), one of the implicit theories of child molesters is that women are unknowable.

Male sex offenders often believe that the male sex drive is easily controllable.

According to the Pathways Model, emotional dysregulation in offenders can lead to reliance on non-sexual behaviors to regulate mood states.

Marshall and Barbaree (1990) define vulnerability factors as assets in skills, attitudes, preferences, values, and beliefs.

The Pathways Model of sexual offending focuses on avoiding high-risk situations that offenders may encounter.

Individuals with criminal careers generally have lower levels of adverse childhood experiences compared to the general population.

The Risk, Needs, Responsivity model advocates for allocating treatment resources based on the offender's estimated level of risk.

Addressing and resolving childhood adversity in sex offenders is not an effective means to enhance treatment benefit.

In the sex offender treatment field, there is a shift towards trauma-informed approaches that consider trauma effects during treatment interventions.

EMDR therapy typically requires an average of six sessions to fully reprocess and resolve the offence drivers.

The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model suggests that unresolved experiences can lead to dysfunctional and deviant behavior.

Forensic clients who have internalized their trauma are the primary focus of EMDR therapy.

EMDR therapists working with forensic populations should not coordinate with other stakeholders.

Adverse childhood experiences like repetitive bullying can be a driver for distorted memories and implicit beliefs in offenders.

Forensically involved individuals are never mandated to treatment, allowing them full autonomy in choosing therapy options.

The use of BLS with the client's offense as the target memory is a common practice in EMDR therapy.

Clients who have sexually offended are usually eager to select their own target memories for processing in EMDR therapy.

Therapists typically do not intervene in selecting memory targets for clients who have sexually offended during EMDR therapy.

A clinical background of education and practice in a mental health field is considered unnecessary for effectively applying EMDR therapy.

EMDR training requires a bachelor's degree in the mental health field and a licence or certification from a state or national board.

Trainees are expected to perform 40 hours of supervised practice before the second level of EMDR training.

EMDR therapy is endorsed for use with all ethnic populations except for Hispanic or Latino individuals.

Studies have shown that EMDR therapy is not effective for traumatised psychotic patients.

The American Psychiatric Association does not regard EMDR as one of the most highly regarded treatments for PTSD.

EMDR therapy was initially developed to treat physical trauma.

The eight phases of EMDR therapy include a phase where the client learns relaxation techniques for calming.

The Closure phase of EMDR therapy occurs at the beginning of each session.

The therapist provides BLS in the form of auditory stimulus during Phase 4 of EMDR therapy.

EMDR therapy is not suitable for working with sex offenders according to the text.

EMDR was endorsed by the World Health Organization as the only recommended psychotherapy for PTSD in children, adolescents, and adults.

According to the Cochrane Review in 2007, EMDR was found to be less successful than pharmacological treatment for PTSD.

Detailed descriptions of the traumatic event are a compulsory part of EMDR therapy.

EMDR has been extensively studied and applied with forensic populations.

Ricci's case study demonstrated decreased motivation for treatment when using EMDR with sex offenders.