"How can I get out of here?" Bringing EMDR to children, families and professionals
How can I get out of here? is an illustrated album written by Cristina Cortés, psychologist therapist , specialized in Infanto Juvenil and director of the Vitaliza psychology center, located in Pamplona. The book has been edited by the publisher Desclée de Brouwer. It is an ambitious project that seeks to explain to children and families how to intervene with EMDR in children, in a pleasant and simple way.
Thus, it becomes a valid therapeutic material for professionals in the world of psychology .
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Explaining the use of EMDR in children
How can I get out of here? allows us to understand, through the use of a metaphorical and simple language, what we look for in the intervention with EMDR therapy. This therapy seeks, as with any other type of psychological intervention, to leave the past behind and move on with our life in a healthy way .
It also invites families to be aware of the important role they have in the therapeutic processes of their children, when these have been overcome by the experiences of life. How they are architects of the emotional resources of their children.
By means of the emotional garden analogy It is described how parents have a primordial function in the regulation of emotions.
Also included are illustrations, which are available for download from the publisher in order to facilitate other psychology professionals to perform family dynamics of emotional identification through play and fun.
How can I get out of here ?: a book that takes care of the details
The book How can I get out of here? It has been illustrated with a sublime beauty. The images are evocative, and are loaded with details that support the message of the book in a subtle and intuitive way.
Cristina Cortés combines clinical practice with disclosure, being the author of publications such as Look at me, feel me. Strategies for the repair of attachment in children through EMDR, a book prologued by Stephen W. Porges that already reaches its third edition. His extensive experience and experience in EMDR have led him to promote a editorial line specialized in EMDR children for bring this therapy and its benefits to society .
