Disabilities Archives

Neuro 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?

Affirm Your Practice

Read case vignettes that affirm using EMDR therapy with neurodiverse clients in this article from Go With That Magazine.

EMDRIA Members Respond: Identity Representation for Persons with Disabilities

EMDRIA members discuss disability and identity and how they inform, strengthen, and or challenge EMDR practice.

Safety, 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.

From 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.

EMDR Therapy with people who have intellectual disabilities: Process: Adaptations and outcomes (Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities)

Adaptations of EMDR therapy for people with intellectual disabilities in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

EMDR Therapy and Persons with Disabilities

EMDRIA Member Mary Rixford, LPC, shares her experience utilizing EMDR therapy with clients who have differing abilities.

EMDR Therapy and Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

EMDRIA member Andrew Seubert, LMHC, shares his experience utilizing EMDR therapy with individuals who experience intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Intensive clinical trauma treatment for children and adolescents with mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning: A pilot study (Research in Developmental Disabilities)

Children & adolescents with mild intellectual disability are at increased risk for PTSD due to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

EMDR therapy for PTSD symptoms in patients with mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning and comordid psychotic disorder: A case series (Research in Developmental Disabilities)

First study to investigate EMDR therapy for PTSD in patients with MID-BIF and a comorbid psychotic disorder.

EMDR therapy for PTSD symptoms in patients with mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning and comorbid psychotic disorder: A case series (Research in Developmental Disabilities)

Effectiveness of EMDR therapy for patients with mild intellectual or borderline intellectual functioning, PTSD & psychotic disorder.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for people with intellectual disability in the treatment of emotional trauma and post traumatic stress disorder: A scoping review (Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities)

This paper assesses evidence on the use of EMDR to treat PTSD in intellectual disability and provide direction for future research.

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