Title: 'Compassion Focussed EMDR therapy in the Treatment of Moral Trauma'
- Date(s)
- June 1, 2023
- Location
- Canada Room/Council Chambers, Lanyon Building, QUB
- Time
- 18:00 - 20:00
- Price
- Free
We have great pleasure in inviting you to the inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Derek Farrell, MBE. Professor Farrell is Principal Lecturer in traumatology at the University of Worcester and Honorary Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast. He is a Chartered Psychologist, an accredited EMDR consultant and trainer and an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. He has extensive practice experience internationally working with patients who have experienced trauma in conflict areas and in the education and development of practitioners in trauma care.
Title: 'Compassion Focussed EMDR therapy in the Treatment of Moral Trauma'
The lecture will take place on Thursday 1st June 2023 at 18.00 in the Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, QUB, followed by a reception in the Canada Room.
About this event
Compassion Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an emerging treatment approach for individuals experiencing moral injury. Moral injury refers to the psychological distress resulting from events that transgress an individual's moral or ethical beliefs. The approach integrates EMDR with compassion-focused techniques to target the shame, guilt, and self-criticism often associated with moral injury.
This presentation will explore the dichotomy that often exists between individual and political dimensions to moral trauma and will use case examples such as the Hillsborough Disaster, abuse perpetrated by religious leaders, and country case studies engaged in trauma capacity building. Research on compassion focused EMDR for moral injury is still limited, but early studies suggest that it is a promising approach to treating moral injury.