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EMDR training's for Bosnia and Herzegovina mental health workers resulted with seven European accredited EMDR psychotherapists and one European accredited EMDR consultant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M. Hasanovic ,
S. Morgan ,
S. Oakley ,
S. Richman ,
Š. Šabanović ,
S. Habibović  and
I. Pajević
M. Hasanovic
Affiliation:
University Clinical Center Tuzla, Department of Psychiatry, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
S. Morgan
Affiliation:
Humanitarian Assistance Programmes HAP UK & Ireland, EMDR, Hove, United Kingdom
S. Oakley
Affiliation:
HAP UK & Ireland, Humanitarian Assistance Programmes, EMDR, Saint Louis, USA
S. Richman
Affiliation:
Humanitarian Assistance Programmes HAP UK & Ireland, Richman EMDR Training, Hove, United Kingdom
Š. Šabanović
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
S. Habibović
Affiliation:
Faculty of Islamic Pedagogy, Department of Social Pedagogy, Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
I. Pajević
Affiliation:
University Clinical Center Tuzla, Department of Psychiatry, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Abstract

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Introduction

Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH) citizens, affected by 1992–1995 war, developed serious mental health posttraumatic consequences. Their needs for EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) treatment increased. The Humanitarian Assistance Programmes UK & Ireland (HAP) work in partnership with mental health professionals in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH) from 2010.

Objectives

We aim to build a body of qualified and experienced professionals who can establish and sustain their own EMDR training.

Method

Authors described educational process considering the history of idea and its realization through training levels and process of supervision which was provided from the Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) of UK &Ireland with non profit, humanitarian approach in sharing skills of EMDR to mental health therapists in BH.

Results

The trainers from HAP UK & Ireland completed five EMDR trainings in BH (two in Tuzla and three in Sarajevo) for 100 recruited trainees from different BH health institutions from different cities and entities in BH. To be accredited EMDR therapists all trainees are obliged to practice EMDR therapy with clients under the supervision process of HAP UK&Ireland supervisors. Supervision is organized via Skype Internet technology. Up today seven trainees completed their supervision successfully and became European Accredited EMDR Psychotherapists, one of them became European Accredited EMDR Consultant.

Conclusion

Five training of Bosnia-Herzegovina mental health workers to effectively use EMDR with enthusiastic help of EMDR trainers from HAP UK&Ireland resulted with seven European accredited EMDR psychotherapists, and one of them became European accredited EMDR consultant. This will increase psychotherapy capacities in postwar BH.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: Training in psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. s896
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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