KHA724 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing, Systematic Desensitization, Cognitive Model

• School: University of Tasmania
• Department: Psychology
• Course: KHA724
• Professor: Kimberley Norris

Document Summary

Course of therapy: looking at the core components you will cover in therapy. Will be different for each client: wont cover every topics. Passing out etc: talk about the consequences of the coping mechanism in terms of the action itself, not in the context of increasing risk for more trauma. Session two: reliving, identifying hotspots and meanings, michael has four hotspots, can you play what happened through your mind like a movie and hit the pause button on the most distressing point. Identify image, body, emotions, and then cognitions: positive and negative beliefs/cogntions, leave these until last, finding a new positive belief to replace it is too hard, focus initially on the negative belief that has been installed. Session three: address meaning of hotspots, education, updating. Session four: reliving with restructuring and updating hotspots. Session five: continue to address cognitive themes and update memory. Session seven and eight: continue to work on cognitive themes, safety and strength.