ADDVantage MINDS - EMDR Solution

眼动脱敏和再加工（简称“EMDR”）是心理学家弗朗辛·夏皮罗博士在20世纪90年代开发的一种心理健康治疗方法。一种结构化的治疗方法，鼓励患者在经历双侧刺激（通常是眼球运动）的同时，短暂地专注于创伤记忆，这与减少与创伤记忆相关的生动性和情绪有关。在广泛的科学研究的支持下，EMDR被广泛认为是治疗情绪障碍的有效方法，如创伤后应激障碍、抑郁、焦虑、悲伤、成瘾和其他疾病。EMDR是一种个体化治疗，通常每周进行一到两次，总共6-12次，尽管有些人从更少的疗程中受益。会话可以连续几天进行。传统上，EMDR治疗是在诊所和治疗中心由治疗师在黑暗的房间等使用光源进行的，因为这种治疗的可及性对许多人来说是有限的。ADDVantage Technologies的目标是创建一个独立的在线和视频辅助EMDR解决方案，该解决方案将扩大心理健康从业者和临床医生的访问范围，使其能够以数字方式提供护理和治疗。治疗师和患者可以在方便的时间和地点使用该解决方案。这种独立的解决方案将作为一种创新的解决方案发挥不可或缺的作用，作为改善心理治疗（IAPT）服务的一部分，精神卫生组织可以很容易地采用它，并将其与现有的临床系统一起使用。

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (known as "EMDR") is a mental health treatment developed by psychologist Dr Francine Shapiro in the 1990s. A structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. Backed by extensive scientific research, EMDR is widely recognised as an effective treatment for emotional disorders, such as PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Grief, Addictions, and other conditions.EMDR is an individual therapy typically delivered one to two times per week for a total of 6-12 sessions, although some people benefit from fewer sessions. Sessions can be conducted on consecutive days. Traditionally EMDR therapy is delivered in clinics and therapy centers by therapists using light sources in dark rooms etc, as such accessibility to therapy can be limited and restricted for many.ADDVantage Technologies aims to create a stand-alone online & video-assisted EMDR solution that will widen access to Mental health practitioners and clinicians enabling the delivery of care and therapies digitally. Therapists and patients can utilise the solution at a time and place convenient to them.This stand-alone solution will play an integral part as an innovative solution as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service and Mental Health organisations can readily adopt and use it alongside their existing clinical systems.