The challenges of using EMDR for early trauma and neglect are that a) EMDR readily targets explicit memories, but early trauma is held in implicit memory in the right hemisphere (Siegel, Schore) and is not typically subject to direct recall, and b) Accessing the felt sense of early experience can be overwhelming if it includes the paucity of internal resources of a neglected baby. This workshop addresses both problems by careful preparation and systematic trauma reprocessing.

Violence against women is a global phenomenon. Studies repeatedly show that women around the world suffer various gender-based forms of physical and sexual abuse, coercion and threats of harm. Women's intimate partners are among the most common perpetrators of violence, but women and girls are also assaulted and intimidated by close and extended family members, acquaintances, neighbours, and other males in positions of power, such as soldiers or police.

Objective. The Psychological Mindedness Assessment Procedure [PMAP; McCallum, M. & Piper, W E. (1990)] operationalizes psychological mindedness as a participant’s understanding of the problem presented by two videotaped enacted patients. To possibly enhance predictive power for psychotherapy outcome, we added two video scenarios with emotionally high-impact. This article describes psychometric properties of the Dutch translation of the PMAP and the extended version, the PMAP-plus.

Design. A therapy-analogue study with non-clinical participants (N = 100).

Objective: Prevalence estimates of delayed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have varied widely in the literature. This study is the first to establish the prevalence of delayed PTSD in prospective studies and to evaluate associated factors through meta-analytic techniques.