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1. Klaff, F. (1999, December). Ask Doctor Frankie, because…There is no such thing as a silly question (Although I may have a silly answer). EMDRIA Newsletter, 4(4), 11-12.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Abstract:
I provide some of the questions that people have asked at my trainings on working with children in a family context.
Keywords: Children Questions and Answers
Accuracy Verified: Yes
2. Klaff, F. (2012, October). Bonding the pieces: Treating children unglued by family disruptions - An integrated EMDR-family systems approach. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Arlington, VA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
Major family structural changes, as in divorce and adoption, impact children’s adjustment. Integrating neuroscience research, the AIP-EMDR model and family systems theory, a comprehensive therapeutic approach facilitates treatment of the child’s whole experience. Videotaped case material demonstrates effectiveness of the EMDR treatment component, addressing interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences for adopted brothers Antwon, 4 and Tony,7, exposed to past poverty, drugs,abuse and murder; and Gina, 8, impacted by divorce, current family instability, alcoholism,and other unrevealed ghosts. These children are representative of the complex cases therapists must deconstruct, with sometimes disturbing or complicating revelations emerging as treatment progresses.
Keywords: Children Family Systems Approach
Accuracy Verified: Yes
3. Klaff, F. (2007). Children of divorce. In F. Shaprio, F. W. Kaslow, & L. Maxfield (Eds.), Handbook of EMDR and family therapy processes (pp. 284-305). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Abstract:
Much attention has been devoted to examining whether divorce negatively impacts children's psychological adjustment, or whether divorce is now so prevalent that it can be considered a normative transitional event (Kaslow, 1981). Divorce brings many structural and functional changes. These include the logistic and emotional complications of a nonresidential parent, financial disequilibrium, and two systems with differing rules and expectations. Additionally, there are new subsystem components, such as parental figures, step- and half-siblings, and extended families with a potentially motley cast of new characters and different environments impacting the system. What constitutes "family" for children of divorce is often quite different from what is traditionally viewed as the nuclear family. This chapter discusses divorce effects on childhood adjustment; family systems-based treatment of divorce; adaptive information processing model applied to divorce issues; and the therapy process--integrative family therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Two case examples are presented, followed by a concluding discussion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing Model Adjustment Children of Divorce Divorce Emotional Adjustment Family Family Systems Family Systems Theory Family Therapy Integrative Family Therapy Integrative Psychotherapy Models Therapy Process
Accuracy Verified: Yes
4. Staff. (2000). Complex PTSD in children II: Therapeutic interventions. Cavalcade Productions, Inc., Nevada City, CA.
Language: English
Format: Video
Abstract:
In this video series, Bessel van der Kolk and other clinicians from The Trauma Center, along with therapists Joyanna Silberg and Frances Waters, describe the assessment tools and therapeutic approaches that they have found most useful in working the severely traumatized in children. The clinician's role in such cases often includes working with parents or guardians as well as children, and can extend far beyond the therapy room to encompass psychoeducation and advocacy. For children with complex PTSD, safety must be established both externally and internally. Maintaining internal safety can be an especially difficult task when the child is highly dissociative. The presenters discuss ground techniques that can help a child to stay safe and stable, and describe the therapeutic modalities "play, talk, art, and group therapy" that they have found useful. Topics include controlling aggression, accessing emotions, changing the trauma story, and using EMDR.
Keywords: Children Clinical Judgment Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Complex PTSD C-PTSD Intervention Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Therapeutic Processes Treatment
Accuracy Verified: No
5. Peterson, G., Smyth, N., Greenwald, R., de Jongh, A., & Lee, C. (2000, October). EMDR for treatment of PTSD. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 61(10), 784-785.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
Letters question the lack of representation of qualified EMDR clinicians in the Expert Consensus Guideline Series: Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
Two letters, one from Peterson and one from the EMDR International Association Research Committee (signed by Smyth, Greenwald, de Jongh, and Lee), commenting on: Foa, Davidson, and Frances, "Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (Expert consensus guideline series)," Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 60(Supplement 10) (1999) [14767], with a reply by Foa, Davidson, and Frances. [Pilots]
Keywords: Commentary Letter Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Practice Guideline Professional Criticism PTSD Professional Standards Reply
Accuracy Verified: Yes
6. Klaff, F., & Dutton, P. (2000, September). EMDR in the playroom: Creative processing. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
Participants will: 1) understand the necessity of eliciting material from children in indirect, projective ways; 2) understand the meaning of "creative processing" in the EMDR context as a method of both accessing and treating children's problems where direct methods may fail to produce desired outcome; 3) learn specific skills which apply the EMDR method through the medium of fantasy, play, story, metaphor, sensory experience, and enactment; 4) learn how to apply the creative process to separate elements of the standard EMDR protocol, and to make adjustments appropriate to the age and developmental stage of the individual child; 5) observe direct use of EMDR creative processing techniques via case material and videotaped therapy sessions; and 6) recognize the importance of integrating family systemic issues into use of the techniques, as well as embedding the method into a total contextual treatment of the child.
Keywords: Children Enactment Fantasy Metaphor Play Sensory Experience Storytelling
Accuracy Verified: Yes
7. Foa, E. B., Davidson, J. R. T., & Frances, A., & Ross, R. (1999). Expert consensus treatment guidelines for posttraumatic stress disorder: A guide for families. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 60 (Supplement 16), 69-76.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
No abstract available.
Keywords: Letter Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Practice Guidelines Professional Criticism Professional Criticism Reply Professional Standards PTSD
Accuracy Verified: Yes
8. Harriman, J. G. (1994, July 14). Eye-opening trauma treatment. Wilmington, DE: The News Journal, B1.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Abstract:
The treatment that Dr. Frances Klaff
had given Dougherty - Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing - had
helped Snyder herself as part of more
conventional, on-going therapy.
Keywords: Frances Klaff Trauma: Wilmington
Accuracy Verified: Yes
9. Figley, C. R., Leeds, A. M., Tinker-Wilson, S. A., van der Kolk, B. A., Foa, E. B., Davidson, J. R. T., & Frances, A. J. (2000, October). Further discussion of EMDR for treatment of PTSD. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 61(10), 785-786.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
No abstract available.
Keywords: Letter Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Practice Guideline Professional Criticism Professional Criticism Reply PTSD Treatment Effectiveness
Accuracy Verified: Yes
10. Klaff, F. (2001, November). How can the traumatized children be helped with EMDR. EMDRNews.com, 2.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Accuracy Verified: Yes
11. Klaff, F. (1996, June). Integrating EMDR and family therapy. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Denver, CO.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
12. Klaff, F. (2002, June). Portrait of a family: Fitting EMDR to the family and child. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, San Diego, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
What is particularly unique is that this presenter has documented verbatim
scripts and filmed sessions of two families over a time span covering 8
years. It is possible from this data to track recurring themes and issues
and demonstrate how EMDR was helpful to the recipients over time.
Presented are practical and creative ways of incorporating parents into
treatment and viewing the treatment of the child in a broad context. It
demonstrates how to make actual systemic maneuvers during an EMDR session,
how to work with the individual on systemic family issues and how to follow up
EMDR sessions with further family work.
Keywords: Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
13. Klaff, F. (2005, September). Practical EMDR with children and adolescents: An integrative family systems approach. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Seattle, WA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
This workshop offers creative and practical applications for integrating
EMDR into child, adolescent and family systems therapy. Ways to introduce
EMDR, uncover targets, adapt cognitive interweave to different ages and
stages of development and assess and utilize parental involvement will be
taught. Problems, such as resistance, family complexities and chronic versus
crisis problems, will be addressed. Enhancement skills including affect
management and ego strengthening will be taught. The how-to's of play, art,
music and stories as vehicles for creatively using EMDR will be demonstrated.
Cases involving ADHD, adoption, cutting, divorce, sexual abuse and other
traumas will be illustrated with videos, scripts and roleplay. Dr. Klaff is
known far her lively presentations, creativity and humor.
Keywords: Adolescents Children Integrative Family Systems Approach
Accuracy Verified: Yes
14. Klaff, F., & Dutton, P. (2004, September). The short and the long of it: Crisis versus routine treatment of children and adolescents. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Montreal, Ontario Canada.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
EMDR techniques with children following crisis will be demonstrated drawing from interventions developed directly at international disaster
sites. The nature of immediate intervention with dramatic trauma problems will be addressed in terms of treatment goals, techniques and
outcomes. Safety preparation skills using interactive safe place and a quick phobia protocol to clear prior problems will be taught. This approach will be contrasted with more routine treatment for past trauma and resistant family system problems. Clinical issues will be analyzed with videotaped cases treated both in childhood and later in adolescence.
Repetitive themes and unresolved issues will be highlighted. The evolution of therapist experience with resultant refinement of treatment skills will be discussed.
Keywords: Adolescents Children
Accuracy Verified: Yes
15. Nurse, R., Thompson, P., Moore, P., Greenwald, R., & Klaff, F. (1998, July). A symposium on EMDR and family therapy. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of EMDR International Association, Baltimore, MD.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
Participants will: 1) understand the theoretical basis of Kantor's Critical Identity Image approach to treating couples; 2) understand what Kantor's approach consists of on a methodological level; 3) understand how to add, or integrate, individual EMDR work with Kantor's approach; 4) be able to better understand the uses of EMDR in family therapy; 5) be able to identify some of the benefits of integrating individual and family components, as well as some of the cautions of doing so; 6) understand how serious medical illness effects family functioning; 7) understand how family functioning impacts on the level of wellness or illness of the child; and 8) learn ways of itnegrating EMDR into the treatment of seriously ill children and their families.
Keywords: Critical Identity Image Approach Couples Therapy Family Therapy Kantor Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
16. Rosen, G. M. (1999, January-April). Treatment fidelity and research on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 13(1-2), 173-184. doi:10.1016/S0887-6185(98)00046-2.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing was introduced by Frances Shapiro (1989) as a treatment for PTSD. When controlled studies failed to support the extraordinarily positive findings and claims made by Shapiro, proponents of EMDR raised the issue of treatment fidelity and criticized researchers for being inadequately trained. This paper considers the issues raised by EMDR proponents. It is concluded that treatment fidelity has been used as a specious, distracting issue that permits the continued promotion of EMDR in the face of negative empirical findings. Clinical psychologists are urged to remember the basic tenets of science when evaluating extraordinary claims made for novel techniques. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Methodology Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Treatment Effectiveness
Accuracy Verified: Yes
17. Klaff, F. R. (1995, June). Treatment of children's fears with EMDR. Presentation at the EMDR Network Conference, Santa Monica, CA.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
Through case material, the usefullness of EMDR is illustrated for the treatment of children's fears and phobias. The issue of
integrating EMDR treatment with more traditional treatment is also addressed, especially with more complex contextual problems.
Three case histories are presented with emphasis on the most complicated case. Family therapy treatment espouses the notion that
psychopathology in the child results from dysfunctional family functioning, and as such the entire family system has to be treated.
This concept is broadened with the use of EMDR.
The first case illustrates a single trauma event in which a 6 year old boy was bitten by a rottweiler. Presenting symptoms were
nightmares, fear of sleeping alone, poor school performance, persistent thoughts and fear of dogs. The first session of EMDR was
successful in eliminating most of these fears. A second EMDR session focusing on a nightmare was also successful. Two follow
up sessions with the family dealt with other parenting issues and the possibility of attention deficit disorder. The targeted problem
was eliminated via EMDR.
The second case demonstrates a successful one session treatment of an otherwise healthy 6 year old girl who had fears of the dark
and had slept in her parent's bed for years.
In the third case, a complex symptomatology is presented of a nine year old girl (Lily) with a severe, life threatening heart condition
for which she has undergone 4 delicate aortal surgeries since age 2 and is on a medication maintenance regimen. Future surgery is
anticipated during adolescence. Family history is significant for mother's struggle to overcome alcohol addiction, depression and
past abuse. The family has financial pressures. Family system analysis reveals over involvement between mother and daughter,
peripheral father and sibling rivalry (daughter 11). Family treatment involved boundary and limit setting, hierarchical restructuring
and family communication skills. The illness as an organizing factor in the family system was repeatedly addressed.
Interspersed with this treatment approach were EMDR sessions for daughters and mother. Lily had fears of separation fiom mother,
fears of dying, choking, becoming ill, swimming, going to bed, and fears of the devil (as learned in their fundamentalist religion) as
well as several other fears. EMDR sessions targeted these fears, and sometimes several fears were intertwined, such as fear of
sleeping, the devil coming into her room and taking her away to die. Cognitive interweave was used when she appeared stuck.
Through the EMDR treatments, Lily was able to deeply examine her fears, based on the real life uncertainties she faced. Her
progress demonstrated a particularly poignant attempt to make sense of the meaning of life and cope with the threat of death.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
18. Foa, E., Davidson, J., Frances, A., Culpepper, L., Ross, R., & Ross, D. (1999). Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 60 (Supplement 16), 4-76.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
No abstract available.
Keywords: Consensus Panels Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Treatment Guidelines
Accuracy Verified: Yes


