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In my commitment to making EMDR treatment more accessible, appealing and developmentally appropriate for children and adolescents, I have continued to create new tools for EMDR clinicians. I am happy to announce two wonderful products: The Thoughts Kit for Kids and  Dark, Bad Day...Go Away, a storybook for children about trauma and EMDR.

The Thoughts Kit for Kids and Dark, Bad Day...Go Away are the result of many years of experience using EMDR with traumatized children.  I created The Thoughts Kit for Kids and  Dark, Bad Day...Go Away to assist EMDR clinicians and their young clients in using the EMDR standard protocol more effectively.

I have to say that the children that have crossed my path as my clients have been my greatest teachers. In fact, the vocabulary used in the kit and the book was the result of the feedback received from many children and young adolescents.  I did polls with my young experts and identified the best ways of referring to the negative cognitions, the disturbing feelings and even a name for EMDR that was child friendly. The Thoughts Kit for Kids and Dark, Bad Day… Go Away are now a reality because of the contribution of many children and young adolescents affected by trauma that were able to experience the benefits of EMDR.

The Thoughts Kit for Kids and Dark, Bad day...Go Away are great tools to help EMDR clinicians prepare, motivate and guide children to use EMDR treatment. I hope you enjoy them and  find them as helpful as my young clients and I have. I am confident that The Thoghts Kit for Kids and Dark, Bad Day...Go Away will make EMDR treatment easier to understand, more appealing, and as a result more accessible to children.

The Thoughts Kit for Kids:

When using EMDR with children, two of the greatest challenges for clinicians are assisting children in identifying the negative and positive cognitions as well as obtaining the validity of the positive cognition (VoC). The Thoughts Kit for Kids is designed to aid clinicians with these procedural steps of the EMDR protocol.

The Thoughts Kit for Kids consists of four sets of cards. Two sets are for young children and the other two for young adolescents. Each set contains child appropriate positive and negative cognitions along with a VOC scale with which children can play and interact. In addition, The Thought Kit for Kids contains a 16 page booklet with specific EMDR games and protocols than can be used with the cards.

The Thoughts Kit for Kids can help you by:

• Helping children develop cognitive and emotional awareness and literacy.
• Making the process of identifying negative and positive cognitions easier for children during EMDR treatment.
• Facilitating the use of the VOC scale for children.
• Assisting youngsters in selecting potential targets for EMDR treatment.

 Dark, Bad Day...Go Away: A book for children about trauma and EMDR.

Dark, Bad Day...Go Away is the first hard cover, illustrated book for children that motivates, prepares and guides children to use EMDR.

Dark, Bad Day...Go Away is a storybook for EMDR trained clinicians.

Dark, Bad Day...Go Away:

• Explains trauma and EMDR in terms children can understand.
• Motivates children to embrace trauma using EMDR.
• Prepares children for EMDR trauma reprocessing so the likelihood of children stopping EMDR prematurely is reduced.
• Makes EMDR accessible to children by showing what EMDR is, how it works, and how it can be helpful.