DeTUR
Urge Reduction for Addictions and Dysfunctional Behaviors - The Accelerated Adaptive Information Processing Model
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $70 full members only
Continuing Education Hours: 12.0
Note: A beginning level workshop for clinicians who have completed EMDR Basic Training.
Course Description
DeTUR (Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing) is an urge reduction adaptation of EMDR therapy used as the nucleus of an overall methodology in the treatment of a wide range of chemical addictions and dysfunctional behaviors. This method was developed and refined by AJ Popky, Ph.D., through actual client interaction and feedback from other EMDR trained therapists using the same protocol. It was initially introduced as a “stop smoking” protocol at the first EMDR conference in 1992.
This eclectic addiction treatment method is trauma based, combining client internal resources with external support including the 12-step model and other known and proven treatment methods as cognitive behavioral therapy, solution focused, Erickson, thought field therapy, Satire, neuro linguistic programming. The basis or foundation is the accelerated information processing using bi-lateral processing as outlined in EMDR therapy to uncover and process the base trauma(s) or core issues as the underlying cause behind the addiction.
Though similar to the phases of EMDR therapy, using history, assessment, diagnosis and preparation of the client. DeTUR targets the triggers that bring up the uncomfortable feelings leading to the urges. DeTUR phases also include client empowerment through resource accessing, installation of positive treatment goals, identification and desensitization of triggers, and techniques of relapse prevention. The purpose of this adaptation is to uncover the core traumas and reprocess them through to completion. In achieving reprocessing the triggers no longer stimulate the need to use or act out and the new response becomes the positive treatment goal of coping and functioning successfully in life as determined by the client.
Learning Objectives:
Through lecture, discussion, video clips, and practicum experiences, participants will be able to:
- Describe the use of the DeTUR protocol.
- Demonstrate each step of the DeTUR protocol to uncover core traumas and reprocess them to completion.
- Identify at least one rapid technique to aid clients in accessing their own inner resources.
- Differentiate between positive goal (PG) and positive state (PS).
- Identify what constitutes a client’s triggers.
- Recall at least one method to elicit the client’s positive goal.
- Recall how to anchor the positive state into client’s philosophy.
- Identify how to segue from the DeTUR protocol to the EMDR model.
- Identify at least one technique to aid clients in handling relapse.
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