Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy: Innovative Strategies and Protocols

by Mark Nickerson LICSW (Editor)

Overview

Praise for the first edition:

This book is on the cutting edge—it shows us the vast potential of EMDR in healing culturally based traumas that persist today and the traumas that are endemic to our cultural histories. The topics targeted could not be timelier . . . Few works have the scope, breadth, and depth of information and practical tools provided to extend cultural competence that we see in [this book].

—Sandra S. Lee and Kimberly Molfetto (2017). Cultural Competence, Cultural Trauma, and Social Justice With EMDR [Review of Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma With EMDR Therapy: Innovative Strategies and Prools]. PsycCRITIQUES, 62(43).

Now in its second edition, this groundbreaking text continues to offer guiding direction on the frontiers of culturally informed EMDR therapy and the treatment of culturally based trauma and adversity

Over twenty-five authors combine to address a diverse range of current and emerging topics. Ten new second edition chapters include a call for broader recognition of culturally based trauma and adversity within the trauma field, the core human need for connection and belonging, and strategies for clinician self-reflection in developing a culturally competent clinical practice that is multicultural inclusive, actively anti-oppressive, and grounded in cultural humility. Other new chapters offer considerations in working with Black, American Indian, Asian-American, and Latinx clients; immigration challenges; and social class identity.

Overall, this book provides graspable conceptual frameworks, useful language and terminology, in-depth knowledge about specific cultural populations, clinical examples, practical intervention prools and strategies, research citations, and additional references. This text speaks not only to EMDR practitioners but has been recognized as a groundbreaking work for therapists in clinical practice. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.

New to the Second Edition:

• Ten new chapters addressing timely topics
• A framework for defining and depicting different themes of Culturally Based Trauma and Adversity (CBTA)
• Specific considerations for working with Black, American Indian, Asian-American, Latinx clients, and other racial/ethnic populations
• Exploration of social class related experiences and identities as well as additional coverage of challenges related to immigration and acculturation

Key Features:

•Twenty-eight contributing authors with diverse professional and lived experiences
• Best-practice methods for cultural competence integrated into EMDR therapy
• Culturally attuned clinical assessment and case formulation
• Innovative prools and strategies for treating socially based trauma and adversity
• Enriches the adaptive information processing model with research-based knowledge of social information processing
• Specific chapters devoted to LGBTQIA+ issues and transgenerational cultural trauma including antisemitism
• Strategies and a prool for dismantling social prejudice and discrimination
• Combines conceptual theory with practical application examples and methods

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826163417
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/22/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	437
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark Nickerson, LICSW, is a psychotherapist, clinical consultant, and trainer with a specialty in trauma treatment. He has more than 35 years of clinical experience and is based in Amherst, MA, US. Nickerson is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Michigan School of Social Work. He is a former president of the EMDR International Association, where he has served on the Board for eight years. He is an EMDR trainer for the EMDR Institute and currently serves on the EMDR Council of Scholars: The Future of EMDR Project.

Table of Contents

Contents

Contributors

Foreword Rosalie Thomas, PhD, RN

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

SECTION I: COMPONENTS OF AN EMDR THERAPY APPROACH TO CULTURAL COMPETENCE

1: Cultural Competence and EMDR Therapy

Mark Nickerson

2: Integrating Cultural Concepts and Terminology Into the AIP Model and EMDR Approach

Mark Nickerson

3: Healing Culturally Based Trauma and Exploring Social Identities With EMDR Therapy

Mark Nickerson

4: Dismantling Prejudice and Exploring Social Privilege With EMDR Therapy

Mark Nickerson

SECTION II: STRATEGIES FOR MARGINALIZED CULTURES

5: An Integrative Approach to EMDR Therapy as an Antioppression Endeavor

Rajani Venkatraman Levis and Laura Siniego

6: Placing Culture at the Heart of EMDR Therapy

Rajani Venkatraman Levis

7: Culturally Attuned EMDR Therapy With an Immigrant Woman Suffering From Social Anxiety

Barbara Lutz

8: The EMDR Approach Used as a Tool to Provide Psychological Help to Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Paola Castelli Gattinara, Antonio Onofri, and Cristina Angelini

SECTION III: INNOVATIVE PROTOCOLS

9: Legacy Attuned EMDR Therapy: Toward a Coherent Narrative

Natalie S. Robinson

10: EMDR in a Group Setting (GEMDR)

André Maurício Monteiro

SECTION IV: ADDRESSING SEXUAL/AFFECTIONAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER DIVERSITY

11: EMDR Therapy as Affirmative Care for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients

Sand C. Chang

12: EMDR Therapy With Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Clients

John M. O’Brien

13: Sex Assignment, Gender Assignment, and Affectional Orientation: Applying Continua of Congruence to Dismantle Dichotomies

Earl Grey

SECTION V: SPECIFIC CULTURES AND SOCIAL STIGMA

14: The Transgenerational Impact of Anti-Semitism

Ruth Heber and Karen Alter-Reid

15: Left Out and Left Behind: EMDR and the Cultural Construction of Intellectual Disability

Joseph C. Yaskin and Andrew J. Seubert

16: “People Like Me Don’t Get Mentally Ill”: Social Identity Theory, EMDR, and the Uniformed Services

Liz Royle

17: EMDR Therapy and the Recovery Community: Relational Imperatives in Treating Addiction

Jamie Marich

18: EMDR With Issues of Appearance, Aging, and Class

Robin Shapiro

SECTION VI: GLOBAL FRONTIERS OF EMDR INTERVENTION

19: Learning EMDR in Uganda: An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Rosemary Masters, Elizabeth McConnell, and Josie Juhasz

20: Teaching and Learning EMDR in Diverse Countries and Cultures: When to Start, What to Do, When to Leave

John Hartung

Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Gary B Kaniuk, PsyD (Cermak Health Services)
Description: This book discusses the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in patients with culturally based trauma and adversity. It addresses how clinicians can increase cultural competence, utilize anti-racist therapeutic models, and learn more about race/ethnicity, immigration issues, and LGBTQ issues. This second edition book is an update to the first, which was published in 2017.
Purpose: The purpose of the book is to "provide graspable conceptual frameworks, useful language and terminology, in-depth knowledge about specific cultural populations, clinical examples, practical intervention protocols and strategies, research citations, and additional references. This text speaks not only to EDMR practitioners but has been recognized as a groundbreaking work for therapists in clinical practice." These are very worthy objectives. Presenting the material in both print and online formats adds value because it increases searchability and portability. The book and website meet the stated objectives.
Audience: The book is written for clinicians; however, graduate students in clinical/counseling psychology and social workers will greatly benefit from this volume as well. The book meets the needs of its intended audience. The editor is an expert in the subject matter of the book. He is a clinician and trainer with over 35 years of experience, is the former president of the EMDR International Association, and has won awards for his work. The other contributors represent an international authorship from the United States, Italy, and Brazil. They are affiliated with well-known institutions of higher learning and/or are employed in private practice settings.
Features: The book begins by introducing the need for cultural competence in the clinical setting. The book also notes the importance of emphasizing social connection and belonging when using EMDR. EMDR can be used within an anti-racist, anti-oppressive framework, and certain procedures within EMDR can help to reduce bias. As of late, Asian Americans have been targets of hate crimes, so clinicians should consider trauma when evaluating this population. The book also urges clinicians to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of Latinx clients, considering the acculturation process and other aspects of their lives. Researchers have been evaluating an eight-phase standard protocol to assist transgender and nonbinary clients. EMDR can also help individuals with intellectual disabilities and be used in group settings since group members can help each other. The book ends with a discussion of how EMDR has been used in different parts of the world. This volume is very readable and contains helpful tables/figures/exhibits, which help clarify the text. The case examples are wonderful teaching tools.
Assessment: This book is excellent because it presents the theory and practice of EMDR, emphasizing the importance of cultural competence and understanding culturally based trauma within the model. The clinical examples are great teaching tools to understand how theory is applied in practice. The second edition justifies replacing the first because there are new topics and strategies for working with specific populations.

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