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RESEARCH AWARD RECIPIENTS
The EMDR Research Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the science and effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Through funding and promoting controlled research studies, the Foundation supports evidence-based practice, addresses the global burden of trauma, and builds clinical knowledge to improve trauma treatment worldwide.
2024 Research Award Recipients
Sarah Hubbell
DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, NP-C, University of North Carolina Wilmington School of Nursing
Title: Implementing Group Traumatic Event Protocol (G-TEP) with registered nurses in hospital setting to investigate burnout, PTSD, Depression, moral injury and enhance resilience
Award: $25,000
Purpose: Evaluate effect of (G-TEP) in reducing burnout, etc. Assess effectiveness in reducing moral injury.
Method: N=30 Registered nurses who worked during the Covid pandemic recruited from North Carolina hospitals and treated in 3 consecutive sessions of the 6-step G-TEP protocol administered by a certified EMDR Practitioner. A separate EMDR trained practitioner will assess fidelity to the G-TEP protocol and a mental health person will attend sessions to provide support. Effects will be measured with standardized measures at pre-treatment, 1- and 6- months posttreatment.
$5,000 Award Recipients
Title: Looking Back, Moving Forward: A pilot intervention trial for parents experiencing early psychosocial and/or parenting challenges using EMDR
Purpose: Explore the theoretical associations between trauma, attachment and the EMDR AIP model. Investigate EMDR’s potential to shift adult attachment state of mind categorizations from insecure to secure, strengthen parental mind-mindedness, insightfulness and reflective functions, strengthen observed parental sensitivity
Method: Part 1.100 parents with infants 6-12 months old will be recruited from an early intervention program. They will be assessed by a variety of measures related to early relational trauma. A structured interview will be coded for mentalization abilities, a brief parent-child interaction will be coded for parental sensitivity, responses to videos of infants exhibiting various emotions will be coded for sensitivity and self-report measures will be coded for parental affective information processing. Part 2. 30 parents will participate in a pilot and receive 12 sessions of EMDR and complete standardized assessments of parental functioning at pre-, post- and 6 months. PI has completed Part 1 and 2 EMDR training, and training in coding parenting measures. Will be supervised throughout by her adviser.
Awarded $5000 Dissertation Award
Title: Fear and trauma in pregnancy and delivery
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of early intervention EMDR therapy in preventing PTSD and reducing PTSD symptoms in women with a traumatic birth experience.
Method: The PERCEIVE study is a randomized controlled trial. Women suffering from the consequences of a traumatic birth experience will be randomly allocated at maximum 14 days postpartum to either EMDR therapy or ‘care-as-usual’;. Patients in the EMDR group receive two sessions of therapy between 14 (T0) and 35 days postpartum. All participants will be assessed at T0 and at 9 weeks postpartum (T1). At T1, all participants will undergo a CAPS-5 interview about the presence and severity of PTSD symptoms. The primary outcome measure is the severity of PTSD symptoms, whereas the secondary outcomes pertain to fear of childbirth, mother-infant bonding, breastfeeding, depression and quality of life. The study will be conducted at a large city hospital and at multiple midwifery practices in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Yvette Hendrix,
Vrije Universiteit (VU), Netherlands
Yvette Hendrix,
Vrije Universiteit (VU), Netherlands
Research Award
Joyce Baptist,
PhD, LCMFT, and Marilyn Luber, PhD
Title: (RE)DEFINING EMDR
Awarded $8462
Purpose: The study aims to elicit expert views of how EMDR therapy has evolved over the years and whether the proposed definition of EMDR therapy, categories of EMDR treatment, and glossary of EMDR terms, as articulated by the EMDR Council of Scholars Steering Committee and published as a position paper by Laliotis and colleagues (2021), reflects current EMDR practice. The focus group interviews aim to elicit feedback and suggestions from EMDR experts to refine and solidify the definition and categories of EMDR to reflect its evolution and current practice accurately.
Focus groups will be conducted in 17 countries where EMDR therapy is used: the U.S., England, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, Ukraine, Italy, New Zealand, India, Congo, Uganda, Japan, Brazil, and Argentina. These focus groups will be conducted by volunteer EMDR consultants and trainers from the respective countries using Zoom. Data will be translated into English and collated for analysis by the PIs.
Travel Award
Rebecca Suganthi Davidar,
MFT, PhD Scholar, Bangalore, India
Digital Healing: Online EMDR for Couples with Attachment Trauma – Case Study and Insights from an Ongoing Feasibility Trial.
Previous years award
$25,000 Research Award Recipients
2023 - Martina Manzoni
2022 - Suzy Matthijssen PhD
2022 - Christoph Mueller-Pfeiffer MD
2022 - Anwar Khan PhD
2021- Karin Slotema, Prof. Dr.
2021- Joyce Baptist PhD
2020- Luca Ostacoli M.D.
2020 - Colette Smart PhD, Rpsych
2020 - Luca Ostacoli M.D.
2020 - Colette Smart PhD, RPsych
2020- Anwar Khan, PhD
2020- Canan Çitil-Akyol
2020- Luca Ostacoli M.D.
2019- Sara Bertelli PhD
2019- S. Every-Palmer PhD
2018- J. Baptist PhD
2018- C. Mueller-Pfeiffer PhD
2018 M. Littel PhD
2017- A. Roberts PhD, R. Eads, LMHC; C. P. A. Brigham, LICSW; S. Burnham LICSW; & P. Krentzel, PhD
2017- Dr. I.A.E. Bicanic, Dr. C.A.J. de Jong, Dr. J.H.C. van den Hout, & Dr. R.J.C. (Rafaële) Huntjens $7,850 awarded
2016- Marleen Rijkeboer, Marcel van den Hout, Erick ten Broeke | Utrecht University, Netherlands
2016- Amanda Roberts PhD, MA & Larry Shrier MA $1000 awarded
2016- G. Di Lorenzo, MD. PhD | University of Rome
2016- C. Lee, PhD| Murdoch University, Australia
2016- F.J.J. Ter Heide, PhD| Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2015- Dr Benedikt L Amann, MD, PhD | FIDMAG Research Foundation / CIBERSAM
2015- Marco Pagani, MD PhD
2015- Dr. Luca Ostacoli and Dr. Arne Hofmann
2015- April Wise, MFT LPCC, California Southern University, $1000 awarded
2014- Erno J. Hermans, Ph.D; Co-Applicants: Lycia D. de Voogd, MSc; Jonathan W. Kanen, BSc
2014- E. C. Hurley, Ph.D, Soldier Center, Clarksville, TN
2014- Emre Konuk, MA and Zeynep Zat
2014- Joyce Baptist, PhD, LCMFT, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2014- Joyce Baptist, PhD, LCMFT, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2014- Lindsay Bira, M.S., University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fl
2014- Elaine Wynne, M.A., L.P. EMDRIA Certified Therapist & Approved Consultant | In collaboration with Joe Graca, Phd. And 2014- Hector Matascastillo, MSW, LICSW $1000 awarded
2013- Catherine M. Butler, Ed.D, MFT, $1000 awarded
2013- W. Markus (PhD candidate), Dr. G. de Weert, Dr. C.A.J. de Jong, Dr. E.S. Becker, Dr. Hellen Hornsveld, $10,000 awarded
2013- Michael L. Blair, Ph.D. and Kathy Harm, Ph.D. | Crittenton Children’s Center | Kansas City, Missouri, $10,000 awarded
2012- Mcayla Sarno, Psy.D., LMFT, $1000 awarded
2012- Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. and Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D., $10,000 awarded
2012- Kathleen Wheeler, Ph.D., APRN, FAAN; Ronald Ricci, Ph.D., Cheryl Clayton, LCSW, CSOTP, James Cole, Ed.D., $10,000 awarded
2011- Marco Pagani, Senior Researcher | Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR in Rome & Padua, Italy, $10,000 awarded
2011- Research Team Member – Giampaolo Nicolais | Department of Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza in Rome, Italy, $10,000 awarded
2011- Gail Ironson, MD, Ph.D. | University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, $10,000 awarded
2011- Michael Scheeringa, MD, MPH | Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA, $10,000 awarded
2011- Ana Gomez, MA, LPC | Phoenix, AZ, $10,000 awarded
$5,000 Dissertation Award Recipient
2021- Canan Çitil-Akyol
2020- Deborah Vinall, PSY-D, LMFT
2016- Yvette Eriksen | Charles Sturt University, Australia
2016- Michelle D. Morrissey, MS, LMFT | Northcentral University, Arizona
2012- Catherine M. Butler | Argosy University | San Diego, California
Sarah Schubert | Murdoch University in Australia
$1000 Travel Award
2023 - Rebecca Suganthi Davidar
2019- Anwar Khan PhD
Winner of the Francine Shapiro Memorial Fund Grant Award
2020 - Batya Engel-Yeger PhD, Eyal Fruchter PhD, and Udi Oren PhD