EMDR Therapy for Persons with Disabilities
According to the WHO, 16 percent of the global population experience significant disability. How can EMDR therapists these clients?
Read MoreThe Impact and Adaptation of EMDR Therapy on the Taiwanese Deaf University Students (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Using EMDR with deaf adolescents adapting to hearing-dominated universities helped students stabilizing emotional arousal quickly.
Read MoreEMDR in Three Adults With Severe Intellectual Disability and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Multiple-Baseline Evaluation (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Effectiveness of EMDR therapy using the storytelling method in three adults with severe intellectual disability and PTSD.
Read MoreClinicians’ experiences of learning to use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy with people with intellectual disabilities: A qualitative study (Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities)
The current study interviewed newly trained EMDR therapists working in intellectual disability services.
Read MoreEMDRIA Members Respond: Community Cultural Wealth for International Day of Persons with Disabilities
EMDR therapists can celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities by using the lens of Community Cultural Wealth to identify internal and external resources in their clients.
Read MorePilot research study: Utilizing the EMDR integrative group treatment protocol online to help parents with the stresses of having a special needs child (Springer, 2023)
Six parents of special needs children were given assessments before treatment, immediately after and one-month after EMDR treatment.
Read MoreNeuro EMDR: Applying EMDR therapy with clients who have impaired cognitive abilities (EMDR Therapy Quarterly)
Can EMDR be effective with adults who have experienced a brain injury or are experiencing other cognitive difficulties?
Read MoreAffirm Your Practice
Read case vignettes that affirm using EMDR therapy with neurodiverse clients in this article from Go With That Magazine.
Read MoreEMDRIA Members Respond: Identity Representation for Persons with Disabilities
EMDRIA members discuss disability and identity and how they inform, strengthen, and or challenge EMDR practice.
Read MoreSafety, feasibility, and efficacy of EMDR Therapy in adults with PTSD and mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning and mental health problems: A multiple baseline study (Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities)
EMDR therapy was found to be safe, feasible, and (potentially) efficacious in decreasing PTSD symptoms for adults with MID-BIF.
Read MoreFrom Trauma to Triumph: Cultural Resilience of People With Disabilities
This course explores ways to provide clients access to EMDR phases 3-8 to promote healing & build resiliency for clients with a disability.
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