Pilot research study on the provision of the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing integrative group treatment protocol with female cancer patients

Journal of EMDR Practice and Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 98-105

  Jarero, Ignacio ^a   Artigas, Lucina ^a   Uribe, Susana ^a   García, Laura Evelyn ^a   Cavazos, María Alicia ^a   Givaudan, Martha ^a  

^a Latin American and Caribbean Foundation for Psychological Trauma Research   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cancer; Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) Integrative Group Treatment Protocol (EMDR IGTP); Intensive EMDR therapy; Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016273675     PISSN: 19333196     EISSN: 1933320X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1933-3196.9.2.98     Document Type: Article

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