Distance Learning for EMDRIA Credit: This distance learning program has been approved for 1.5 EMDRIA Credit hours (99019-DL42). Andrew M. Leeds, an approved EMDRIA Credit Provider (#99019) maintains responsibility for the program.

Dr. Leeds only provides the Examination Packet for this program. See the How to Order page for information on ordering the audio recording and the handout from their vendors.

Learning to feel good about positive emotions with
the Positive Affect Tolerance and Integration protocol:

A case series with principles and procedures for applying the standard EMDR procedural steps to improving self-regulation and social functioning for survivors of early emotional neglect.

Presented September 29, 2007 at the EMDRIA Annual Conference
by Andrew M. Leeds, Ph.D.

Abstract

Survivors of profound early childhood emotional neglect and abuse often experience shared positive emotional states as aversive. For such survivors these states are unfamiliar and may be associated with formative experiences of being ignored, shamed or hurt. Concepts from the Adaptive Information Processing Model, attachment theory, Putnam's discrete behavioral states model and McCullough's affect phobia provide the foundation for the Positive Affect Tolerance and Integration Protocol. Standard EMDR procedural steps increase tolerance for and integration of positive emotional states and to develop a more resilient and positive self-concept. Case examples illustrate criteria and potential benefits of this approach with the aim of encouraging further research.