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Journal Clinical Psychiatry and Cognitive Psychology | Volume 3
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March 18-19, 2019 | London, UK
6th World Congress on
Anxiety, Depression and Stress Management
Participants attending this experiential 60-minute workshop
will learn and practice the CiD protocols and be provided
with the necessary materials to use the CiD protocols in their
communities.
It is well known that traumatic incidents, if left untreated,
increase the likelihood of excessive stress, depression and
eventually may develop into PTSD. Early interventions such
as Psychological First Aid, Critical Incident Stress Management
and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing are well known crisis
interventions that are designed to reduce the stress of recent
traumatic incidents.
CiD (Critical incident Desensitization) is an experimental
intervention designed to be administered immediately after a
crisis. Research has shown that short bursts of eye movements
rapidly decrease the vividness of images and its level of
disturbance. Since eye movements, in themselves, are not
considered psychotherapy, CiD protocols offer an ideal crisis
intervention for clinicians and para-professionals to use in a
wide variety of crisis situations.
CiD is currently considered experimental. Participants will be
provided information and materials to submit to Roy as part
of a research project to evaluate its effectiveness as a critical
incident intervention.
Speaker Biography
Roy Kiessling, in 1980, as a Red Cross Disaster Volunteer, he introduced to helping
survivors of natural disasters. Since being trained in EMDR, 1994, he has participated
in training clinicians to treat trauma in Bangladesh, Poland, Russia and the Middle
East as well as through the USA. In 2005 he participated in treating and teaching
clinicians living in New Orleans who had survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
From 2005 to 2012, when appropriate, he taught clinicians various forms of his crisis
intervention protocols. Since 2013 Roy has included his crisis intervention protocols
during his EMDR training course as well as teaching these protocols non-EMDR trained
clinicians, nurses, emergency responders, school counselors, police, firefighters, and
other para-professionals.
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Roy Kiessling
EMDR Consulting, USA
CID: Critical Incident Desensitization