Spacehogs Make a Difference
Hernández outlines the SPACEHOGS acronym (that includes socioeconomics, privilege, age, etc.). Each of these categories combined offers an overview of client experience to inform an EMDR clinician in better history-taking, understanding targets, resourcing, creating cognitive interweaves, and beyond. This approach is important to address our personal biases about the clients who give us the honor to see them.
Learn more in this article from the Fall 2020 issue EMDR & Racial Trauma of Go With That Magazine by Cío Hernández, Ph.D., LMFT, LPCC.
Go With That Magazine content is typically restricted to EMDRIA members only. However, the EMDR & Racial Trauma issue was made publicly available as part of a collection of Antiracism Resources in 2020.
