Clinician Experiences With EMDR: Factors Influencing Continued Use

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Grimmett ◽  
Michael D. Galvin
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Practice Setting ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Training Format ◽  
Clinician Experiences ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Training And Support

This study investigated factors contributing to clinicians’ use or discontinued use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as well as obtaining information pertaining to training experiences. Patterns emerged from a survey completed by 239 respondents highlighting some issues associated with discontinued use, specifically loyalty to other treatment modalities and discomfort with using EMDR. Factors investigated were not statistically significant; however, frequency analysis of the survey identified patterns in use and experience. Clinicians who continued to use EMDR reported that they did so because of both its effectiveness and the ongoing consultation they received. Practice setting surfaced as a statistically significant factor, with operating in private practice associated with greater participation in EMDR support activities. A discussion of the adequacy of the training format is presented as well as how prepared the participants felt after completion of EMDR training. Some findings were consistent with earlier studies, and the converging results of loyalty to previous modalities and discomfort using EMDR give rise to recommendations for future training and support of newly trained clinicians.

Private Practice View of Otitis Media

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 937-938
Author(s):  
Richard Schwartz ◽  
Ronald G. Barsanti ◽  
William J. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Otitis Media ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Patient Population ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Practice Setting ◽  
Young Infants ◽  
Important Study

In the June 1977 issue of Pediatrics (59:827), Dr. Tetzlaff et al. reported their important study of 59 young infants less than 11 weeks of age who were seen in a hospital setting. The infants had a diagnosis of otitis media confirmed by tympanocentesis. We have recently compiled our data on otitis media in suburban, middle-class infants seen in a private-practice setting during a similar period (28 months). With respect to the above article, we have found a number of similarities as well as some differences in our patient population.

Temperature Measurement

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-650
Author(s):  
DAVID ALEXANDER ◽  
THOMAS TERNDRUP
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Measurement ◽  
Tympanic Membrane ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Temperature Measurements ◽  
Practice Setting ◽  
Pediatric Setting ◽  
Tympanic Membrane Temperature ◽  
Conventional Methods

To the Editor.— In the March 1992 issue of Pediatrics, Freed and Fraley published an article entitled, "Lack of Agreement of Tympanic Membrane Temperature Assessments with Conventional Methods in a Private Practice Setting."1 This study concluded that the FIRST Temp thermometer was unreliable, compared with conventional methods of temperature-taking in the private pediatric setting. I would like to raise two methodologic concerns which may have influenced their results. Under "Methods," the authors state that their tympanic thermometer provided a choice of two modes: "tympanic" and "surface," They further state that the tympanic mode was used for all temperature measurements.

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