Work And Education Case Study

Work and Education History Carol worked at a marketing company and has been fairly successful in her career thus far until the trauma she experienced. Carol was a marketing consultant who advised her clients on strategies for marketing new and existing products. Carol graduated from West York Area High School, completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in marking at the University of Pennsylvania. Carol stated she enjoyed her job and coworkers, but has been having difficulty trusting others around her and has become more cynical towards males.

Medical and Psychological Background Carol was a fairly healthy child and did not report major diseases or substance use within her family of origin. Most of her relatives are farmers and

According to Shapiro (2001), the early phase of the theory is “forming a therapeutic alliance, taking a comprehensive history, creating a sense of safety, and stabilization” (p. 534). The first phase involves taking the client’s history and planning the treatment and determining current triggers and levels of support (Prochaska, & Norcross, 2014, p. 207). Information was gathered on the potential memories to process through using EMDR with Carol. The second phase encompasses preparation and education where the client is informed with information on EMDR, as well as grain practice of tension reduction techniques that may be useful between treatment sessions (Silver et al., 2008, p. 948). Carol could begin to access a relaxing image and used it in a tension-reduction exercise. Assessment is the third phase, which comprises the EMDR clinician identifies the target and collects baseline data before desensitization (Prochaska, & Norcross, 2014, p. 208). This phase would focus on Carol’s particular experience and deliberately sets out to galvanize it by having Carol report on various aspects of the experience (Silver et al., 2008, p. 949). Carol would be reporting current emotions associated with the experience and physical sensations to provide a baseline for after EMDR

949). This phase is meant to transform the negative schemas that developed as an outcome from the trauma and attachment deficits (Shapiro, 2001, p. 534). Carol would choose a memory to reprocess using eye movements to a minimal level of distress in one desensitization session. Prochaska & Norcross explain, “ The patient is asked to bring up the traumatic images, thinking of the negative cognition, and notice the feelings attached to it as he or she follows the therapist’s hand with his or her eyes” ( 2014, p. 208). The therapist generates the movements as rapid as possible without causing discomfort. After a set of fifteen to thirty eye movements, Carol would be instructed to ‘take a deep breath’ and described the feelings, images, sensations, and thoughts with purposefully broad prompts such as, ‘What are you experiencing now?’ (Prochaska & Norcross, 2014, p. 208). Carol would describe the experience and another set of eye movements