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practitioners and researchers may request and receive from one or more of the authors specic, written permission to use the

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Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing

EMDR

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ERA OF COVID



Francine Shapiro

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an inspiration at all times, but

especially in times of crises

Marilyn Luber, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and has a general private practice in

Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, working with adolescents, adults, and couples, especially

with complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), trauma and related issues, and dissociative

disorders. She has worked as a Primary Consultant for the FBI eld division in Philadelphia. In 1992,

Dr. Francine Shapiro trained her in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She

was on the Founding Board of Directors of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) and

served as the Chairman of the International Committee until June 1999. Also, she was a member

of the EMDR Task Force for Dissociative Disorders. She conducts facilitator and consultation trainings and teaches other

EMDR-related subjects both nationally and internationally. Since 1997, she has coordinated trainings in EMDR-related elds

in the greater Philadelphia area. In 2014, she was a member of the Scientic Committee for the EMDR Europe Edinburgh

Conference. Currently, she is a facilitator for the EMDR Global Alliance to support upholding the standard of EMDR erapy

worldwide. She is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Future of EMDR erapy Project and on the Council of

Scholars. In 1997, Dr. Luber was given a Humanitarian Services Award by the EMDR Humanitarian Association. Later, in

2003, she was presented with the EMDR International Association’s award “For Outstanding Contribution and Service to

EMDRIA” and in 2005, she was awarded “e Francine Shapiro Award for Outstanding Contribution and Service to EMDR.”

In 2001, through EMDR HAP (Humanitarian Assistance Programs), she published, Handbook for EMDR Clients, which has

been translated into eight languages; the proceeds from sales of the handbook go to EMDR HAP organizations worldwide. She

has written the “Around the World” and “In the Spotlight” articles for the EMDRIA Newsletter, four times a year since 1997.

In 2009, she edited Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Basics and special situations

(Springer) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Special populations (Springer).

She interviewed Francine Shapiro and co-authored the interview with Dr. Shapiro for the Journal Of EMDR Practice and

Research (Luber & Shapiro, 2009) and later wrote the entry about Dr. Shapiro for E.S. Neukrug’s, e SAGE Encyclopedia of

eory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). Several years later, in 2012, she edited Springer’s rst CD-ROM books: Eye

Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols with Summary Sheets CD-ROM Version: Basics and

Special Situations and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols with Summary Sheets CD-

ROM Version: Special Populations. In 2014, she edited, Implementing EMDR Early Mental Health Interventions for Man-Made

and Natural Disasters: Models, Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets. In 2015, three ebooks were published that supplied

protocols taken from Implementing EMDR Early Mental Health Interventions for Man-Made and Natural Disasters: Models,

Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: EMDR erapy With First Responders (ebook only), EMDR erapy and Emergency

Response (ebook only), and EMDR erapy for Clinician Self-Care (ebook only). e text, Eye Movement Desensitization and

Reprocessing (EMDR) erapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating Anxiety, Obsessive-compulsive and Mood-

Related Conditions and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) erapy Scripted Protocols and Summary

Sheets: Treating trauma-and stressor-related conditions were released in 2015. In 2019, Springer published Eye Movement

Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) erapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating medical-related issues

and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) erapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating

eating disorders, chronic pain, and maladaptive self-care behaviors. In 2020, Luber compiled resources for and from the

worldwide EMDR community and put online, EMDR Resources in the Era of Covid-19.

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ANDRA

TUTTO BENE

{ Everything will be ne }

ANDRA

TUTTO BENE

{ Everything will be ne }

Italian Slogan during the Coronavirus

Contents

EMDR RESOURCES in the ERA of COVID–19

Contributors

Foreword – Derek Farrell, C. Psychol, PhD, CSi, AFBPsS

Preface

Acknowledgment

PART I

EMDR Responses to COVID-19 Around the World

Resource 1 Levels of Care for the Coronavirus

Regina Morrow

Resource 2 Italy and the Coronavirus: Suggestions for Clinicians During the Pandemic

EMDR Italy

• Guidelines for Adults: Self-Protection for Adults

• Guidelines for Children: Children Need to Understand What is Happening: Tips for

Parents, Caregivers, Teachers and Grandparents: What to say and how to say it

• Coronavirus: How to Deal with It: Suggestions for Managing Fear in Children and Adults

• Suggestions and Guidelines for Senior Citizens

• Guidelines for First Responders: Self-protection for First Responders and Health

Professionals

• Telephone Support: Guide for Counseling

• COVID-19 Emergency: Guidelines on How to Communicate Bad News Over the Telephone

Resource 3 A Picture of Italy Affected and Striving with the Coronavirus: Phase 1

Isabel Fernandez

Resource 4 A Picture of Italy Affected and Striving with the Coronavirus: Phase 2

Isabel Fernandez

Resource 5 Recommendations for the Use of Online EMDR Therapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Standards Committee, EMDR-Europe

Resource 6 EMDR Early Interventions in the Current COVID-19 Pandemic

Resource 7 A Turkish Response to Dealing with a Catastrophic Event: The COVID-19 Pandemic

Şenel Karama, Asena Yurtsever, Sefa Kaya, & Emre Konuk

Resource 8 The Global Child-EMDR Alliance

Ana M. Gomez

Resource 9 Therapy in A Time of Turmoil: Stray Thoughts

Deany Laliotis

PART II

EMDR-Related Stabilization Techniques

Resource 10 Self-Care Procedure for Coronavirus (SCP-C) for Mental Health Practitioners

Gary Quinn

Resource 11 Self-Care Procedure for Coronavirus (SCP-C) Worksheet for Mental Health Practitioners

Gary Quinn

Resource 12 The Butterfly Hug for the Coronavirus Pandemic

Ignacio Jarero

Resource 13 Four Elements Parent Activities

Judy Moench

PART III

Early EMDR Interventions

Resource 14 The EMDR Abbreviated Recent-Traumatic Episode Protocol (R-TEP)

(The “Sandwich Protocol)

Brurit Laub & Keren Mintz Malchi

PART IV

Early Self-Care Suggestions & Interventions

Resource 15 Healer, Heal Thyself: Self-Care in the Time of COVID-19

Catherine Butler

Resource 16 Letter from Roger Solomon

Roger Solomon

Resource 17 Strengthen Resilience: Promote Recovery

Roger Solomon

Resource 18 Group-Traumatic Episode Protocol Remote Individual & Self-Care Protocol (G-TEP RISC)

Elan Shapiro

Resource 19 The Self-Care Traumatic Episode Protocol (STEP)

Judy Moench

Appendix A EMDR Global Resources

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Catherine M. Butler, EdD, MFT, is a clinician in private practice in San Diego, CA. Her practice focuses on the impact of PTSD

on rst responders and veterans. e area of compassion fatigue and burnout has been an interest for several years and she trains

extensively in the San Diego area for agencies, volunteer groups, and organizations that meet increasing demands for their services

and dwindling resources. She is a member of the San Diego EMDR Trauma Recovery Network (TRN) and works to assist the com-

munity aer critical incidents, as well as supporting the rst responder network as they meet emergent needs. Promoting strength,

resiliency and compassion within the treatment and rst responder community is the focus of her work and passion

EMDR Europe - Standards Committee, is an EMDR European Committee chaired by Richard Mitchell and co-chair, Kerstin

Bergh Johannesson. ey are tasked with upholding the standards of EMDR therapy. eir committee includes the following mem-

bers: Bjorn Aasen, Ludwig Cornil, Arne Hofmann, Ad de Jongh, Isabel Fernandez, Peter Liebermann, Udi Oren, Carlijn de Roos and

Michel Silvestre.

EMDR Italy Association is the ocial professional association that establishes, maintains and promotes the highest standards of

excellence and integrity in EMDR therapy practice, research and education in Italy. We have conducted approximately 700 inter-

ventions in the eld of acute traumatization for individuals and communities, working on a pro-bono basis. ese 7000 members of

the Association are part of a great network that communicates on a regular basis, sharing results, tools, and skills. e Association

provides psychological support in the aermath of critical incidents occurring in schools (suicides, sudden death of students or teach-

ers) and also in mass disasters like earthquakes, oods (such as the Genoa bridge collapse, Coronavirus pandemic). EMDR Italy has

intervened in the last 4 major earthquakes in Italy, providing support to the greater population, children, emergency workers, decision

makers and schools. ere is ongoing collaboration with the police, the military, with the Ministries of Education, Internal Aairs and

Defense, providing training, psychoeducation and interventions with their personnel exposed to traumatic events. We are a scientic

society endorsed by the Ministry of Health. We have been given an award by the President of the Italian Republic for our contribution

to society and to public mental health and for helping communities to recover and promoting resilience. During the COVID-19 pan-

demic, we are conducting almost 200 interventions. Our support is addressed to the population, to the health workers, to the families

and to schools (teachers and students). We are doing all these interventions in agreement and requested by the Institutions, hospitals,

the National Health service, schools, senior citizens homes, town halls, Civil Defense.

Derek Farrell, PhD is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology, an EMDR erapy Europe Accredited Trainer and Consultant, a Char-

tered Psychologist, Scientist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and an Accredited Psychotherapist with the

British Association of Cognitive & Behavioral Psychotherapies (BABCP). He is past President of the EMDR UK & Ireland Board,

President of Trauma Aid Europe, Past Vice President of EMDR Europe Board, Chair of the EMDR Europe Practice Committee and a

participating member of the Council of Scholars Future of EMDR Project. He is involved in Humanitarian Trauma Capacity Building

programs in Pakistan, Turkey, India, Cambodia, Myanmar, ailand, Indonesia, Lebanon, Poland, Philippines, Palestine and Iraq.

His PhD in Psychology was researching survivor’s experiences of sexual abuse perpetrated by clergy and he has written several related

publications. Derek was the recipient of the ‘David Servan-Schreiber Award (2013) for Outstanding Contribution to EMDR erapy,

shortlisted for the prestigious Times Higher Education Supplement (TES) Awards (2017) for ‘International Impact’ for his Humani-

tarian Trauma Capacity Building work in Iraq with the Free Yezidi Foundation and Jiyan Foundation for Torture and Human Rights,

and awarded the Trauma Aid Europe ‘Humanitarian of the Year Award’ (2018).

Isabel Fernández, PsyD is a clinical psychologist working in Milan. She has been trained in Cognitive Behavioral erapy and has

been on the faculty of the Italian School of Cognitive Behavior for 18 years, providing specialization training in psychotherapy. She has

worked as a consultant psychologist at the psychiatric ward of Niguarda Hospital, conducting clinical research projects. Currently, she

is Director of the Psychotraumatology Research Center of Milan and has published many papers, articles and books on trauma, EMDR

and other topics. She is chairman of the Italian EMDR Association and President of EMDR Europe Association and a member of the

Board of Directors of the Italian Federation of Scientic Psychological Societies. She has been a member of the Standing Committee

Trauma and Disasters and the Board Prevention and Intervention (of the European Federation Psychological Associations) from 2005

to 2014. She has organized interventions with EMDR in mass disasters and has worked in cooperation with Civil Defense, Military

and Law enforcement and reghters to provide psychological support and trauma treatment for emergency workers. She trains grad-

uates students and clinicians in trauma, EMDR and crisis intervention in Italy and Spain. She has done research and published on

Post-traumatic stress reactions in children and adults in emergency settings and mass disasters. In 2019, she received the title of Knight

Commander from the President of Italy, for the contribution given to the population and communities through the Italian EMDR

Association, in the case of mass disasters.

Ana M Gómez, MC, LPC is the founder and director of the AGATE Institute. She is a psychotherapist, author, and international

speaker on the treatment of complex trauma, and dissociation and the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents. Ana

has worked extensively with families and program development to heal intergenerational trauma. She has led workshops and given

keynotes in more than forty cities in the U.S. and thirty cities throughout sixteen countries. She has presented many of her online

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workshops to large audiences all over the world.Ana is the author of EMDR erapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex

Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation and several book chapters and articles on the use of EMDR therapy with children and adoles-

cents. In addition, she is the author of multiple children’s books directed to increasing aect tolerance and emotional literacy as well

as to prepare children for EMDR treatment. Ana has developed numerous intensive training programs and protocols that include

the EMDR-Sandtray Protocol & e Systemic, EMDR - Attachment Informed Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the

Parent-Child Attachment Bond. www.AnaGomez.org

Ignacio (Nacho) Jarero, PhD, EdD, is the world pioneer in the provision of EMDR therapy in a group format, AIP-informed

Advance Psychosocial Interventions for trauma-exposed populations, and AIP-informed Remote Assistance. For his humanitarian

services around the world with near 200 deployments since 1998, he has received the Francine Shapiro Award, the International

Crisis Response Leadership Award, and the Psychotrauma Trajectory Award. For his research work with EMDR therapy, he received

the EMDRIA Outstanding Research Award. Dr. Jarero is EMDR Institute Senior Trainer of Trainers and Advance Specialty Trainer

and has conducted seminars and workshops around the world with participants of 67 dierent countries. He is a co-author of the

EMDR Protocol for Recent Critical Incidents and Ongoing Traumatic Stress

(EMDR-PRECI), the Protocol for Paraprofessionals use

(EMDR-PROPARA), the Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (ASSYST) AIP-informed procedures in group, individual and remote

formats, and the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol

(EMDR-IGTP) that has been applied worldwide with natural or hu-

man provoked disaster survivors. He is also the author of the AIP-informed Advance Psychosocial Interventions for Trauma-exposed

Populations Training Program.

Şenel Karaman, BA is a Psychologist, EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant and President, of EMDR Trauma Recovery, Turkey.

He specializes in Family erapy, Brief erapy and EMDR therapy. His adult patients suer from complex trauma, recent trauma

and crisis situations. For 20 years, he has provided psychological support to clients dealing with natural disasters, terrorist attacks,

plane crashes, trac accidents, and harassment, as a therapist and manager of intervention teams. He also assisted in the development

of the following books, “e Art of Being a Parent,” “Tool Bag for the Psychological Counselor,” “Every Child Can Trust Him,” and

psychological board games.

Sefa Kaya, BA is a Family and EMDR erapist from Turkey. Currently, he is studying Counseling Psychology. He works with chil-

dren, adolescents and children addressing their recent and old trauma as well as anxiety, neglect and abuse. He is assistant to the Pres-

ident of the EMDR Trauma Recovery Group during the Elazig earthquake 2020 project. He is working in the project helping health

workers, patients with COVID-19 and their families.

Lorraine Knibbs, MSc, is an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant, EMDR Trainer in Training and University Lecturer, teaching

Masters’ Programs in EMDR therapy and also Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice. She has taught and trained nationally in the

UK and Ireland and more widely internationally on EMDR humanitarian projects in Poland, Greece, and the Middle East. Lorraine

is Past President of EMDR UK: Vice President of Trauma Aid Europe. She is a member of the Council of Scholars and its working

committees of training and credentialing and training and accreditation. She is published in the eld.

Emre Konuk, MA, is a Clinical Psychologist. He received his undergraduate degree at Istanbul University, followed by a graduate

degree in Clinical Psychology at Bogazici University. He received his Family erapy Training at the Mental Research Institute (MRI),

Brief erapy Center, Palo Alto. He became a pioneer in Turkey establishing psychotherapy as a profession by founding the Institute

for Behavioral Studies (DBE Davranış Bilimleri Enstitüsü) in 1985, with the vision of providing psychological services to individuals,

couples and families. In 1998, he established the Organizational Development Center in order to contribute to the improvement and

growth of organizations and Human Resources. He is an EMDR Institute and EMDR Europe Trainer, President of e Institute for

Behavioral Studies-Istanbul, President of EMDR Association and EMDR-HAP-Turkey and General Secretary of Couples and Family

erapy Association-Turkey. He was a Board Member for the Turkish Psychologists Association, Istanbul Branch between 1990-2002,

and President and Projects Coordinator between 1998-2002. At present, he is a member of the Ethics Committee for the Turkish Psy-

chologists Association. From the 1999 Marmara Earthquake, he has been responsible for EMDR-HAP and EMDR Basic Trainings in

Turkey. More than 600 professionals have been trained during EMDR and several HAP projects. He has participated in EMDR-HAP

projects in ailand, Palestine, Kenya, Lebanon and Iraq. His major concern is to establish EMDR as a major therapy approach in

Turkey.

Deany Laliotis, LICSW, is the Director of Training for EMDR Institute, Inc., and has been part of Francine Shapiro’s teaching facul-

ty since 1993. An international trainer, clinical consultant, and practitioner of EMDR therapy, Deany specializes in the psychotherapy

of EMDR with a particular emphasis on using the therapeutic relationship as an integral part of treating attachment trauma. Deany

was awarded the Francine Shapiro Award for Outstanding Service and Clinical Excellence by the EMDR International Association in

2015. She has authored and co-authored several articles and book chapters and currently maintains a private clinical and consultation

practice in Washington, DC.

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Brurit Laub, PhD, is a senior Clinical Psychologist, with over 30 years of experience working in community mental health in Israel.

She was also a teacher and supervisor at the Machon Magid School of Psychotherapy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at dierent

marriage and family counseling centers. She is an accredited hypnotherapist, and a supervisor in psychotherapy and family therapy.

She presents workshops concerning models developed independently and together with colleagues on narrative therapy, script chang-

ing therapy, coping with monsters, dialectical cotherapy, a trans-generational tool. and work with subpersonalities nationally and

internationally. She has published 15 articles on the above topics in International and Israeli journals. n 1994, she coauthored, with

S. Homan and S. Gafni, “Co-therapy With Individuals, Families.” In 2006, she collaborated again with S. Homan on “Innovative

Interventions in Psychotherapy.” She lives in Rehovot and is in private practice. In 1998, she became an EMDR Facilitator and she is an

EMDR-Europe Accredited Consultant. She has been involved with HAP trainings in Turkey and Sri-Lanka. She developed a Resource

Connection Envelope (RCE) for the Standard EMDR Protocol and presented it in workshops and for EMDR conferences in Tel-Aviv,

London, Vancouver, Denver, Istanbul, and Norway. With Esti Bar-Sade, she developed the Imma EMDR Group Protocol, which is an

adaptation of Artigas, Jarero, Alcalá, and López’s IGTP. Together with Elan Shapiro, she presented their Recent Traumatic Episode

Protocol (R-TEP) in Israel, Europe and the USA. She coauthored two publications about the R-TEP protocol in the Journal of EMDR

Practice & Research with Elan Shapiro and Nomi Weiner. She lives in Rehovot and is in private practice.

Keren Mintz Malchi, PhD, is a clinical Social Worker, psychodynamic psychotherapist and a certied Marital and Family era-

pist and supervisor. She is a faculty member at the School of Social Work- University of Ariel, Israel, and reaches numerous traumas

and family-oriented courses. With over twenty years of clinical experience, she is an expert on complex trauma, dissociation and

body-oriented psychotherapy who is trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). As a certied EMDR consultant, facilitator

and trainer in trainer, she is highly involved in the EMDR Israel community, devoted to the development of EMDR therapists in Israel,

supervising and teaching implementation of EMDR psychotherapy with complex clients. She supervises the sexual trauma clinic at

Poleg public mental health clinic, Lev Hasharon Mental Health Center. Keren has published a number of articles and a book chapter

in recent years, and has presented at over 10 conferences and learning seminars in Europe and Israel. Keren is co-chair of the EMDR

research committee in Israel and dedicated to the development of EMD research in Israel. She is in private practice in Israel, as a

therapist and consultant.

Paul W. Miller, MD, DMH, MRCPsych, is a psychiatrist; accredited EMDR Trainer within EMDR Europe and an EMDR institute

facilitator. He has served as Chair of the Training subcommittee, EMDR UK and Ireland Association and introduced EMDR therapy

to psychiatry in Northern Ireland’s National Health Service. In January 2011 he founded Mirabilis Health – a private psychiatrist-led

clinic specializing in EMDR therapy. Professor Miller is a popular international speaker on topics including EMDR therapy for psy-

chosis. He is involved in the School of Nursing at UU, providing training at an introductory skill level for EMDR therapy to every

Mental Health Nurse. ese are practical steps towards the pragmatic translation of trauma-sensitive research, demonstrating the

validity of the traumagenic model for mental disorders and which acknowledges the ecacy of Eye Movement Desensitization & Re-

processing therapy. He is currently Visiting Professor, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, School of Nursing and is exploring the use

of Low-Intensity EMDR and EMDR therapy within e Centre for Maternal, Fetal and Infant Research (MFIR) and supervises PhD

candidates exploring this application of EMDR therapy. He has been a part of an informal Technical Review with Global Initiative for

Stress and Trauma Treatment (GIST-T), as one of the expert reviewers, because of the innovative work in developing a training scheme

for midwives. Member of the Council of Scholars; he is part of the Future of EMDR erapy Project (FOET). e Council is an intellec-

tual community of 35 EMDR international thought-leaders, working together within the Project parameters to produce material that

will advance the eld, establish the parameters of EMDR ecacy, and identify areas for future research. e Project will determine

EMDR therapy’s core elements and dene what constitutes a treatment modication. It will also work on developing global standards

for training and competency which are objective and evidence informed. He Chairs the Training and Credentialing Workgroup.

Judy Moench, PhD, RPsych is the former President of EMDR Canada and works as a Registered Psychologist in a Private practice

in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, an EMDRIA approved consultant, and an

EMDR R-TEP / G-TEP trainer. Judy assisted in compiling the initial G-TEP manual for working with groups who have been involved

in a recent traumatic event. e manual has been translated into many languages and is being used in dierent parts of the world.

She has had the opportunity to speak locally, nationally, and internationally. Judy has served as Executive Director in a not-for-prot

counselling agency and worked extensively with schools. She is the coordinator of the Disaster Response Network for the Psychologists

Association of Alberta and has consulted in the development of post-incident treatment for rst responders. Judy has recently enjoyed

adding her erapy Dog into the private practice.

Regina Morrow Robinson EdS, LMFT, LMHC, Reg is an EMDR trainer for the EMDR Institute and Connect EMDR, Sr executive

R-TEP/G-TEP Trainer, EMDRIA Consultant. She has served as Orlando, FL EMDRIA regional coordinator and TRN coordinator,

EMDRIA committees focused on dening competency in EMDR therapy. She has presented at the EEI Summit on Community

Response Networks. Reg has more recently provided consultation to organizations seeking to incorporate EMDR therapy into their

systems of care for sta, patients and clients. She has been practicing for 32 years in both agency and private practice and now has a

virtual private practice.

Gary Quinn, MD, is a psychiatrist and Director of e Jerusalem EMDR Institute. He specializes in Crisis Intervention, the treat-

ment of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders, and the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder following military trauma, terrorist

attacks and motor vehicle accidents. He is the Co-Founder, former Co-Chairman and current Vice Chairman of EMDR-Israel. He has

conducted numerous trainings in Israel and runs supervision groups. He is the Trainer of Trainers in Asia for the EMDR Institute

Inc. and is a Senior Trainer in Asia and the United States. He participated as a trainer for HAP (Humanitarian Assistance Programs)

in Turkey following the earthquake of 1999, in ailand, aer the tsunami in 2004, as well in Romania and Cambodia. He has vol-

unteered in medical hospitals aer terrorist attacks and treated patients with ASD and PTSD in bomb shelters using EMDR, EMD

and the group disaster protocol. He developed the Emergency Response Protocol (ERP) to treat victims of trauma with EMDR within

hours of the incident, when patients are suering from speechless terror with multiple rapid ashbacks. He has presented this work at

a conference in trauma (United Kingdom and Ireland), the EMDR Society (Glasgow, Scotland), to the World Psychiatric Association

Regional (Seoul, South Korea) and the EMDR European Conferences (Paris, London, Amsterdam and Vienna). He was invited to

Singapore as a PTSD expert to address the Psychiatric, Psychological and Medical staff as well as policy makers from the Department

of Mental Health. He was the keynote speaker at the Singapore International Conference on treatment of Acute Stress Disorder. He

served as a consultant in the Ohio State University Stress, Trauma and Resilience (STAR) Program and has presented at Grand Rounds

on, “EMDR, PTSD and Medical Systems Trauma” at Ohio State University Department of Psychiatry.

Elan Shapiro, MA, e 2016 David Servan-Schreiber Award went to Elan Shapiro for his outstanding contribution to EMDR therapy,

in the development (with Brurit Laub) of the Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol (R-TEP), with its variation of the Group Traumatic

Episode Protocol (G-TEP). R-TEP is an integrative protocol that incorporates and extends existing EMDR protocols within a new

conceptual framework, together with additional measures for containment and safety. EMDR Europe has recognized the vision and

achievement of Elan Shapiro, who has helped draw attention to the neglected subject of Early EMDR Intervention and the need for

developing and researching specialized EMDR protocols for therapeutic interventions in the wake of catastrophes such as natural and

man-made disasters. is has resulted in signifi antly boosting research and innovation in the eld over the last 14 years, as demon-

strated by the increasing publications in scientific papers and books sections. He has given over 100 presentations and seminars held

worldwide. His work has contributed in the establishment of extending EMDR’s therapeutic potential in recent trauma to a borderless

audience, as well as increasing the visibility of EMDR, by bringing the EMDR R-TEP worldwide, promoting EMDR’s global role. Elan

Shapiro brings years of mental health care expertise in the treatment of recent trauma to his role and a strong passion for nurturing

and training EMDR psychotherapists from all corners of the world. He became active in EMDR very early in his career in 1989 and

served as an EMDR Institute Facilitator and was a founding member of EMDR Europe. In 2003, he was elected Secretary of the EMDR

Europe Executive Committee and Board, serving two terms until 2011, is an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant, and currently

Chair of the EMDR Europe Website Committee. He has written and co-written over 20 articles on Early EMDR Intervention topics,

including book sections and conference presentation and continues to write, teach and present extensively on the most recent innova-

tions and renements of the protocols in the treatment of recent trauma.

Roger Solomon, PhD is a Psychologist and Psychotherapist specializing in the areas of trauma and grief. He is Program Director and

Senior Faculty for the EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Institute and provides basic and advanced EMDR

training internationally. He also provides advanced specialty trainings in the areas of grief, emergency psychology, and complex

trauma. Currently a consultant with the US Senate (through their in-house employee assistance program) Dr. Solomon has provided

direct services, training, and program consultation to many government agencies including the FBI, Secret Service, NASA, U.S. State

Department Diplomatic Security, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; U.S. Attorneys, and numerous state and local law en-

forcement organizations. Dr. Solomon has planned critical incident programs, provided training for peer support teams and has pro-

vided direct services following such tragedies as Hurricane Katrina, September 11 terrorist attacks, the loss of the Shuttle Columbia,

and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Internationally, he is a Visiting Professor with Salesiana University in Rome, Italy and consults with

University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Polizia di Stato in Italy. He has authored or coauthored 41 articles and book chapters pertaining

to EMDR, trauma, grief, and law enforcement stress.

Asena Yurtsever, MA is a Clinical Psychologist, EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant and Trainer, EMDR R-TEP/G-TEP Trainer,

Family erapist, Psychodramatist and Vice President of the EMDR Association Turkey. She supports the EMDR Trauma Recovery

Group locally and internationally. She worked with the Marmara Earthquake victims (1999), survivors of a mall re (2013), Syrian ref-

ugees (2014), families of victims of the Soma mine disaster (2015), survivors of the Atatürk Airport explosion(2016), victims’ families

of the Beşiktaş stadium bombing(2016), coup attempt survivors (2016), family and friends of plane crash victims (2018), Elazig earth-

quake victims (2020), health workers, people who have Covid-19 and their families (2020) in Turkey. She took part in EMDR trainings

in Northern Iraq with EMDR Trauma Aid Europe and does consultancy in Lebanon within EMDR Trauma Aid Europe. Asena wrote,

Art Psychodrama (2013) and Liyo and the Deer who Looks for Courage (2019). Also, she has co-written chapters on migraine treat-

ment, disaster response during the 1999 Marmara earthquake, and G-TEP with Syrian refugees.

Foreward

urrently, we are living through the most extraordinary of times. Covid-19, known as the Coronavirus, has created

a global crisis the likes of which have not been seen in over 100 years. It has changed our present world – how we

emerge, as indeed emerge we will, this narrative is still to be written.

e Spanish u pandemic of 1918 is estimated to have infected about one-third of the planet’s population. As this virus

spread there were no eective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer u strain. Citizens at the time were ordered to wear masks,

close schools, shops and movie theatres, and businesses were shuttered – a similar approach adopted in response to Covid-19.

is time of anxiety and uncertainty appears on many levels: prognosis, bereavement, testing, shortages of personal pro-

tective equipment (PPE), eective treatment interventions, managing existing resources,and how best to protect our vital



rst responders, keyworkers, health and social care providers, and shield populations from infection. Although Covid-19

creates large numbers of asymptomatic cases, about 20% develop more severe symptoms. However, for some, it is proving

deadly. e loss of loved ones wrecks the world as we know it: trauma and grief go hand-in-hand.

Protection involves living with unfamiliar public health measures, infringement of our personal freedoms, nancial hard-

ship, and protracted periods of social isolation and distancing.

n the political stage, a compound eect relates to oen conicting messages from our Governments and International

Organizations Rumour and speculation can fuel anxiety. Having access to good quality information becomes essential.

But while it is important to stay informed,there are also many things we can do to support and manage our well-being

during such times.

Even though we can have “no health without mental health,”people are resilient and do not succumb to psychopathology.

Nonetheless, self-care is essential. An inspirational writer, Eleanor Brownn (2014), acknowledges:“Rest and care are so

important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overow. You cannot serve

from an empty vessel.” Self-care is not selsh;it is imperative in the assistance of others.

EMDR therapy is an empirically supported, internationally-recognized psychological trauma treatment. Its theoretical

orientation-that of Adaptive Information Processing-oers an explanation as to how trauma memories, stored dierently

in the brain, lead to maladaptive responses.erefore, these memories require processing to a more adaptive resolution.

e AIP model is bigger than the Covid-19 pandemic in that it explains trauma symptoms and provides us with a means

as to how best to intervene in alleviating trauma suering.

EMDRResources in theEra of Covid-19,edited by Marilyn Luber, is thereforemosttimelyand welcome.ere is no one

more appropriate than Marilyn to encourage, collect, edit, and bring these resources to us. In her seven prior volumes, she

edited a compendium of EMDR protocols, resources and procedures to support and enrich the EMDR community. is

oneis frontloaded by powerful narratives from one of the countries which experienced rst-hand the devastating impact

of this deadly virus:Italy. Isabel Fernandez provides a poignant, and indeed moving,account as to how the Corona Virus

came to Italy in all its traumatic might. However, Isabel’s account also provides insight, guidance, leadership, and a strate-

gy for moving forward.

A s

econd narrative highlights the transition to remote working and how this impacts EMDR therapy clinical practice. For

some, this has been a monumental change –forothers, less so. Nonetheless,theRecommendations for theUse of Online

EMDR erapy During the COVID 19 Pandemic”areoutlined by the EMDR Europe Standards Committee in a way that

oers good sense, and rich experience.

e core element of this resource is that of self-careoftherapists,that has long been one of Marilyn’s passions. If EMDR

therapy is to contribute as a trauma response to Covid-19, then the strength, skill, resilience, and resourcefulness of our

EMDR therapists are essential. Without this, the tree will fade away. Marilyn presents resources for our clients, for our-

selves, and for other practitioners to use as a source of healing.



ese are challenging times. We will come through this, not as we did before, but hopefully,stronger, kinder, and more

resilient. Let usfollow Marilyn’s lead andwrite this next chapter together. is,for sure, is what Francine would have

wanted from us. We’ve got this.

Take care, stay safe & make good choices

Derek Farrell

17thMay 2020

hat a dierence a pandemic makes! is time last year, most of us could not have considered what we

have been experiencing in the winter and spring of 2020. We would have thought it a bad TV drama

and turned away. However, we are now living in an unprecedented time. Not one of us has been in a situation

remotely like this where almost the whole world has shut down. Travel is at a standstill. Streets are empty. Most

shops are closed and oen boarded up. e stores that are open are only for essential services: pharmacies,

groceries, liquor, hospitals and veterinarians for emergency situations. We are not able to see our loved ones

and we must stay six feet away from each other wearing masks. How strange that a small, spikey virus called

SARS CoV-2 has brought our vibrant world to a stop.

What does it mean? What can we do? When presented with a new situation, we have to adapt or perish. Are we

up to the task? e uncertainty of this disease’s trajectory is chilling. It is a virus that has come upon us and, as

yet, we have no vaccine, with nothing in sight for quite a while. e virus is all around us unconstrained and

unstoppable. Our hope has been “to atten the curve” – so that we do not overwhelm our healthcare systems-

by self-isolating or by staying in quarantine. Most predictions say that without a vaccine, we will all be infected

with the disease – some mildly, some more severely and many will die. e impact on us economically is

staggering, and governments and world health organizations are having to weigh the collapse of our nancial

systems vs. the risk of death to our citizens.

e physical eect on our bodies is only rivaled by the psychological tsunami we are feeling, and will only

increase as this silent horror continues. e whole range of negative aect is amongst us: from the fear of

getting the virus to the terror of testing positive for the SARS CoV-2 diagnosis and facing our own mortality;

from the distress of not seeing our loved ones to the anguish of not being with the ones we treasure while they

are sick and dying; from the anger of having to self-isolate day aer day to the rage at the lack of planning and

execution on the part of the governments worldwide. In addition, there is the dissmell and disgust at people

who are not doing the bare minimum of wearing a mask to protect themselves and others, to our collective

shame when not washing our hands as many times as we need to 24/7. As surely as we are surrounded by the

virus, we are lled with this multitude of feelings without our usual outlets and coping mechanisms to release

them and move forward. How do we address these needs while we are sequestered in our homes and the mental

health workers amongst us have to move to the new platform of Telehealth or use the telephone to respond to

this loud cry for help?

Another part of our psychological response is that those who have the virus are in a life-death struggle literally,

while everyone else who has yet to be infected is in fear of that life-death struggle with the virus. is is how

trauma is born. When we feel we are in a battle for our own mortality, we can become traumatized, or when

we watch people with whom we are connected go through that struggle, we can be traumatized vicariously.

Symptoms can include signs such as intrusive memories of the traumatic events, recurrent dreams, ashbacks

to the event, and/or feeling the intense or prolonged psychological stress or physiological reactions that

happened at the time of the exposure. Other indicators are when we avoid the distressing memories, thoughts

and/or feelings, and try to stay away from external reminders that arouse these feelings. Our cognitive processes

can be aected and create diculties when trying to remember parts of the event, while, at other times, there

are persistent and exaggerated negative beliefs or expectations about ourselves, others or the world. We can

think that it is our fault and this thought is accompanied by a persistent negative emotional state that can

include fear, horror, anger, guilt, and/or shame. Our interest in things that used to engage us might decrease

as we grow increasingly detached and nd it dicult to experience positive emotion. We may become more

irritable and have angry outbursts or engage in reckless or self-destructive behavior. We might easily startle and

become hypervigilant and be unable to concentrate or sleep well. We can have many of these symptoms or just

a few but they are enough to cause great diculties in our daily lives.

Preface

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Most traumas happen as an incident, so we can deal with it and put it in the past. However, there are other

traumas that are ongoing and are not going away. at is the case with COVID-19. is situation is an ongoing

trauma and we will have to prepare to deal with it over the long-term. We need to nd ways to cope and get

strong that will last us through time and build up our resilience.

e seed for EMDR Resources in the Era of COVID-19 grew out of hearing how Isabel Fernandez and her

colleagues were responding to the pandemic that was sweeping the world. In the US, the pandemic began to

get air-time in March 2020. Places like Wuhan, China, Iran and Italy were in the news as the rst places of the

outbreak. It was still far away from us in the US. I was already struggling with a death in my family in January

and was only paying a bit of attention to what was happening. Isabel was sequestered with her family at home,

leading the charge of EMDR practitioners in Italy and charting a way forward. I later heard that Jinsong Zhang

and her team in China were working to support her country men and women.

I helped Isabel with the English translation of EMDR Italy and her work, and my colleague, Gary Quinn, with

his Self-Care Procedure for the Coronavirus (SPC-C). However, my husband and I were literally attened

by the virus for three weeks and I was unable to continue. I vaguely thought about this project but truly

COVID had taken over and I was not able to think much. As I began to get better, personally informed by the

devastating psychological and physical eects that the virus could have, I reached out to my colleagues who

were helping their patients, friends and family in this battle. I knew from rst-hand experience how I needed

help during those dark days and my EMDR colleagues came through. My experience informed my editorial

touch, and my passion to publish these resources promptly and without fee for the benet of my colleagues

and all of our patients. Many of our EMDR experts have provided their knowledge, their wisdom, and their

experiences to EMDR Resources in the Era of COVID-19.

ese resources are here for you to review and use as needed. Not every resource works in every setting or with

every patient. Look through them, try them out, and then select whatever you nd valuable. Please distribute

them to others who would nd them helpful.

In Part I, there are nine resources with the focus on EMDR Responses to COVID-19 Around the World. e

rst chapter, by Regina Morrow, is an excellent resource concerning how to understand EMDR therapy

interventions in the framework of level of care. Isabel Fernandez and EMDR Italy wrote guidelines for Italy’s

response to the Coronavirus to help their fellow practitioners in Italy and around the world. Isabel also wrote

two chapters on Phases 1 and 2 of dealing with the pandemic and what to expect. e Standards Committee

from EMDR Europe shared its recommendations on how to use Online EMDR therapy. Paul Miller, Derek

Farrell and Lorraine Knibbs discussed important questions concerning EMDR early interventions and

scaling up our work with EMDR to address the huge need in the world for trauma treatment. ey did this

by considering that an EMDR-informed response with non-mental health, frontline sta and non-mental

health professionals could be eective with supervision. Emre Konuk and his team discussed how EMDR

practitioners are structuring their response to the pandemic in Turkey and what they do to choose and work

with their population; they have even included preliminary statistical results from their study using this

method. Ana Gomez and EMDR child and adolescent clinicians from 30 countries created “e Global Child-

EMDR Alliance.” is chapter showcases the richness of their collaboration by way of songs, books, dances

and webinars in many languages. ey will be available for free through their YouTube channel and their

website www.globalchildemdral liance.com when they raise enough funds to launch it. e section ends

with a transcription of Deany Laliotis’ reections on the challenges to ourselves and our patients during this

perilous time.

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Part II includes four resources addressing EMDR-Related Stabilization Techniques. Gary Quinn’s e Self-Care

Procedure for Coronavirus (SCP-C) is a very helpful way to work with patients and colleagues concerning the

range of their feelings during the pandemic. e next chapter is a worksheet that goes with the SCP-C. e

Buttery Hug (BH) – created by Lucy Artigas – is well-represented by her husband, Ignacio Jarero. ere is

a link to a YouTube video of Nacho doing the BH concerning the Coronavirus, as well as a transcription of

the script used. e last chapter is Judy Moench’s transformation of Elan Shapiro’s Four Elements for Stress

Management Exercise into a colorful way for parents to teach their children to calm their mind and bodies.

ere is one resource in Part III concerning Early EMDR Interventions. Brurit Laub and Keren Mintz

Malchi use their expertise in EEI to create an abbreviated version of the Recent-Traumatic Episode Protocol,

alternately called “e Sandwich Technique,” to ll a niche for a relatively concise intervention that helps

clients focus their process. e sandwich eect comes from the dialectical movement occurring when there is

rst an opening resource-then the trauma intervention-nishing with the closing resource; this ends with the

client feeling more integrated with a sense of well-being.

Part IV is focused on Early Self-Care Suggestions and Interventions. is section is vital to our own and our

clients’ well-being. Chapters by Catherine Butler and Roger Solomon highlight the types of behaviors to cope

during these tempestuous times and how to support resilience and our own strengths. e last two chapters

are oshoots of Elan Shapiro’s Group-Traumatic Episode Protocol. e chapter by Elan highlights how to work

remotely in a group to promote self-care in a structured manner. e Self-Care Traumatic Episode Protocol by

Judy Moench is to help clinicians who are feeling overloaded develop resources in a short period of time. Both

chapters explore the dierent protocols and point clinicians in a direction to get further training concerning

these useful tools.

In accordance with Dr. Francine Shapiro’s motto, “Research, Research, Research,” we invite you to do your

own research on the eectiveness of each resource. Research will move forward the work we are needing and

supporting as an EMDR community. Any of the authors, as well as our regional associations, such as EMDR-

Europe, EMDRIA, EMDR Canada and EMDR-Asia, will be happy to assist you.

EMDR Resources for the Era of COVID-19 is available in an electronic format.

Experts in our eld have come together during this pandemic to inform and support us as we work on the

frontlines and on Telehealth to respond to the needs of those who need us. is book is not a comprehensive

look at all the resources available but was put together to aid practitioners in their search to address this

dicult time and to point them in directions that will support and enhance their skills. As always, the

goal is to assist us in using what we know and what we learn to enrich our eectiveness as EMDR therapy

practitioners.

In closing, I would like to ask you to consider taking 15 minutes a day – anyone can do something for

15 minutes – for self-care to support your staying safe in body, mind and spirit. My wish is that all of us

worldwide emerge from this time more hopeful, stronger, resilient and even more committed to healing the

world’s traumas and discord, and supporting humanity in its journey into health and cooperation.

Marilyn Luber

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Acknowledgements

am accustomed to dealing with challenges in my life by isolating and immersing myself in my books, writing

and/or editing them. It is how I cope with diculty. e year 2020 was no dierent. Having been through a

grueling last 8 months with my mother as she travelled the last days of her own 94-year personal journey ghting

Lung Cancer that had metastasized to her brain in April 2019 and ended on January 19, 2020, I was numb. My

husband and I were spent. My mother was gone. It was such a relief because she had suered so much. e relief

took over and it anesthetized me to the nality of this moment and took over my recollections of her. e main

memory was of her last hours. I was glad to push it away and not focus on it too much. I was just doing what I

had to do and January gave way to February, and then, it was March 2020.

It started with my husband’s exhaustion, followed by my own severe headache, pain in my jaw, and

overwhelming fatigue. My primary physician, Vicki Bralow, thought it was the u, at rst. I did what I usually

do – immersed myself in doing something outside myself. e pandemic was upon us. I was marveling at Isabel

Fernandez, and my colleagues in Italy, and what they were doing to cope. ey put together guidelines to help

with ways for practitioners to respond to the pandemic, and I oered to work on their English translation. As

I was doing this, it occurred to me that we were all in need of these so I decided to create a resource toolkit to

assist my EMDR colleagues. My Israeli colleague, Gary Quinn, was working on his update to his Immediate

Stabilization Procedure to address the coronavirus pandemic. With Brurit Laub, we contributed to Gary’s work

as he began to do webinars to support other practitioners and rst responders across the globe. Eventually, he

called it the “Self-Care Procedure for Coronavirus (SPC-C).”

But, something was happening to me. My next symptom was a sore throat. Having had strep in the past and

being afraid of letting it go untreated, I asked my physician for a referral to get tested. By then, her oce was

closed by order of the Governor of Pennsylvania. Although I knew that we were in an unprecedented time, it

really hit home when I went to UrgentCare and was told that they were not allowed to test for strep because of

the risk of infection by COVID-19. I will never forget the physician standing in the doorway fully masked and

gowned, not coming into the room, and just pointing in the direction of omas Jeerson University Hospital’s

testing site up the street. She told me I had to get tested. I had forgotten my cell phone -a rare occurrence- so

I had them call my husband to tell him what was going on. In retrospect, I should have had him come to

UrgentCare so that he could get tested as well. In the cold and rainy weather, I walked up to the testing site under

a tent with space heaters. ere was so much rain in this parking lot-turned-testing-site that they were sweeping

the water out with brooms. Aer a while, sitting in this wet and cold space, the nurse came over, she told me to

open my mouth. I did, I got swabbed, and was told I would get a call about the results. ey did not say how long

it would be.

On late Tuesday night March 24

, the day aer I got tested, I noticed that there was an email to get my test

results from the Jeerson portal. I remember just staring at the screen, not understanding what it said. I took

a screenshot and sent it to my physician. It said, “Testing was performed using the cobas(R) SARS-CoV-2

test – Detected.” Until I spoke to her directly at about 10:30pm at night, I didn’t realize I had tested positive for

COVID-19. Bob and I just thought we had the u. I was scared. I had already been doing Telehealth and self –

isolating at home with my husband since the 15

of March. I had also worked the day I got the diagnosis, and

started my Telehealth day that Wednesday despite not feeling well. My husband was unable to get out of bed.

I push through when faced with adversity. By noon, I could barely hold my head up and had to admit defeat;

there was no way I could go on speaking to my patients. I called each one, cancelled that aernoon and the rest

of the week. What surprised me was that I was not putting my patients rst; the virus was leaving me no choice.

I crawled into bed and barely lied my head for 3 weeks. I had made a big pot of chicken soup – that and toast

with jelly saw us through several weeks of illness. We could barely move. My husband lost 11 pounds and I lost 9;

we could barely get anything down. ank heavens we could let Henry, our miniature schnauzer, out into our

garden because our dog walker, understandably, did not want to come to our house. We could not walk him.

We were barely moving. By this time, I was not even listening to TV or the radio. I just wanted quiet. Truthfully,

it was a blur except for the sheer terror of waiting for my husband and me to have the “cytokine storm” I kept

reading about. He was too sick, so I worried for both of us. For the most part, I stayed in bed, watched “Anne

with an E” and kept my head down. At the worst moments of terror, I reached out to Gary who did his SPC-C

procedure with me several times. at helped to calm me down. I also reached out to two friends/physicians,

Stuart Wolfe and Steve Diamond, and my own physician, and they were supportive. My wonderful friends and

family were calling, wanting so much for us to be feeling better – but we weren’t and I hated disappointing them.

is virus just was moving at its own rate and it was tenacious. Aer week three, I began to li my head and

weakly look around.

I remembered how my friend and colleague, Nacho Jarero, had me and other friends keep in daily contact with

him while he was in the midst of the devastation of the Haitian Earthquake when he went to assist. I asked my

friends and family to do the same, and appreciated the messages on email, texts and phone calls we received,

even when I couldn’t always respond. ey helped buoy us up. By week four, I was getting better enough to take

some air. However, that was when I began to un-numb from the death of my mother. My friend, Brurit, was

there and worked with me with her “Abbreviated Recent-Traumatic Episode Protocol/Sandwich Protocol.” Until

then, I had been emotionally drained and was so pessimistic! It helped me to get present and start dealing with

life around me. I got back to working on this ebook.

We are now 53 days aer our rst symptoms. I have been working with colleagues from all over the world to

bring this ebook to you. I want to acknowledge and thank Regina Morrow, Isabel Fernandez, Paul Miller, Derek

Farrell, Lorraine Knibbs, Emre Konuk, Senel Karama, Asena Yurtsever, Sefa Kaya, Ana Gomez, Deany Laliotis,

Gary Quinn, Nacho Jarero, Judy Moench, Brurit Laub, Keren Mintz Malchi, Catherine Butler, Roger Solomon,

and Elan Shapiro for the resources you have contributed to this book.

I would like to acknowledge the extraordinary work of Lew Rossi for creating the cover and layout design for this

work. Lew, I don’t know what I would have done without you during the publishing of this book and the other

editions you have helped me see to fruition. ank you.

I would also like to thank our friends, family and patients who were so concerned about our wellbeing and let

us know through their emails, texts and phone calls of their love, support and prayers (in no particular order):

Herb, Steve, Diane, Bob H., Isabel, Robbie, Arlene G, Phyllis K., Margie, Bob G., Mona, Liz, Amy, Marlena,

Uri, Shelley, Ron, Jim, Dan, Doreen, Dirk, Sushma, Deany, Arlene S., Jodi, Larry, Joann, Lew, Eran, Udi, Elan,

Isabelle, Sheila, Harry, Miguel, Steve H., Irene F-H., Nacho, Lucy, Emre, Zeynep, Louise, Jay, Betty Lou, Bennet,

Zona, Barb, Irene, Aliki, Jack, Sheri Y., Maggie, Jim, Michael B., Siobhan, Annie T., Paul, Robert, Steve R., Debby,

Rosalie, Andre, Reyhana, Roger, Queenie, Catherine, Ana Lucia, Olivier, Ad, Renee, Rob, Andrea, Susan, Jorge,

Evelyn, Cinnie, Michael, Aaron, Abby, Maddie, Emmie, Scott B., Victoria, Sheila, Meryl L., Sheri S., Phyllis G.,

Jim, Bill, Joci, Louise, Susie, Jay, Robert, Les, Cathy, Karen, Anz, Steve H., Brad, Juliet, Jen, Lisa, Rosie, Joel,

Bobby, Bob R., Bob W., Je, Susan, Kazumi, Dennis, Marybeth, Donny, Diane, Carol, Hank, Bill, Victor, AJ,

Arne, Michael H., Richard, Emily, Judi, David, Roz, Hillary, Lindy, Virginia, Cory, Victor, Rise, and Matt. ank

you, it is only through the bright light that you oered during this dark time that we found our way back.

To Henry Raymar Luber, our sweet miniature schnauzer, who endured the disruption of his routine with some

confusion but inevitably adapted in his usual endearing and intrepid style.

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To Wanda Hammoud whose insistence on antibiotics for Bob may well have saved his life.

To Bob Herbst who texted or called me every day through this dark time.

To Stuart Wolfe and Steve Diamond who shepherded me through my worst days.

To Gary Quinn and Brurit Laub who understood what I needed when I didn’t and helped me through this

dicult time.

To my stepdaughter, Meryl Raymar Harrell, not a day went by that Meryl was not FaceTiming me (sometimes

her dad was too sick to get on) to check on us and nd out what we needed. I am sorry for the times that we

couldn’t even manage the phone. She sent us all manner of comfort and toys for Henry; however, the most

important was interacting with her, Sam, Faith and Peter and seeing them in real time.

To Vickie Bralow, our physician, who could not have been more there for us then and now. ank you, thank

you, thank you. I don’t know what we would have done without you.

I would also like to thank our friends, family and patients who were so concerned about our wellbeing.

To my partner in life and in COVID, Bob Raymar. Our journey through the virus was in tandem. Oen when

one of us could not get out of bed, the other would step in and help out, and vice versa. We survived and are both

so grateful to be here today and for each other.

In the end, I want to acknowledge my mother, Shirley Luber, who had a glorious and well-lived life; she is now at

peace.

I also want to remember my friend, my family, Francine Shapiro who gave us EMDR therapy and a way to bring

light where there is darkness. ank you, Francine.

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PART I

EMDR Responses to COVID-19 Around the World

n Part I, there are nine resources with the focus on EMDR Responses to COVID-19 Around the

World. e rst chapter, by Regina Morrow, is an excellent resource concerning how to under-

stand EMDR therapy interventions in the framework of level of care. Isabel Fernandez and EMDR

Italy wrote guidelines for Italy’s response to the Coronavirus to help their fellow practitioners in

Italy and around the world. Isabel also wrote two chapters on Phases 1 and 2 of dealing with the

pandemic and what to expect. e Standards Committee from EMDR Europe shared its recom-

mendations on how to use Online EMDR therapy. Paul Miller, Derek Farrell and Lorraine Knibbs

discussed important questions concerning EMDR early interventions and scaling up our work with

EMDR to address the huge need in the world for trauma treatment. ey did this by considering

that an EMDR-informed response with non-mental health, frontline sta and non-mental health

professionals could do under supervision. Emre Konuk and his team discussed how EMDR prac-

titioners are structuring their response to the pandemic in Turkey and what they do to choose and

work with their population; they have even included preliminary statistical results they have from

their study using this method. Ana Gomez and EMDR child and adolescent clinicians from 30

countries created “e Global Child-EMDR Alliance.” is chapter showcases the richness of their

collaboration by way of songs, books, dances and webinars in many languages. ey will be avail-

able for free through their YouTube channel and their website www.globalchildemdralliance.com

when they raise enough funds to launch it. e section ends with a transcription of Deany Laliotis’

reections on the challenges to ourselves and our patients during this perilous time.