As Discussed in Critical Thinking: Evaluating New Psychotherapies: the Case

question 133

Multiple Choice

As discussed in Critical Thinking: Evaluating New Psychotherapies: The Case of EMDR, in the original published reports about eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, its founder claimed that posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms could be relieved in:

• A) a single session of EMDR therapy.
• B) eight weeks of EMDR therapy.
• C) one year of weekly EMDR therapy sessions.
• D) six months of weekly EMDR therapy sessions.

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Definitions:

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