Add-on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for adults with posttraumatic stress disorder who failed to respond to initial antidepressant pharmacotherapy
Efficacy of EMDR therapy among adults with PTSD who continued to be symptomatic after more than 12 weeks of initial antidepressant treatment.
Article Abstract
“This study examined the add-on efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy among adult civilians with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who continued to be symptomatic after more than 12 weeks of initial antidepressant treatment. Scores for the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) were rated pre- and post-EMDR and at a 6-month follow-up. After an average of six sessions of EMDR treatment, seven of 14 patients (50%) showed more than a 30% decrease in CAPS score and eight (57%) no longer met the criteria for PTSD. Our results indicate that EMDR could be successfully added after failure of initial pharmacotherapy for PTSD.”
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Article Access
Open Access
Bae, H., Kim, D., Cho, Y., Kim, D., & Kim, S. H. (2018). Add-on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for adults with posttraumatic stress disorder who failed to respond to initial antidepressant pharmacotherapy. Journal of Korean Medical Science, 33(48), e306. Open access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249165/
Date
August 27, 2018
Creator(s)
Hwallip Bae, Daeho Kim, Yubin Cho
Contributor(s)
Dongjoo Kim, Seok Hyeon Kim
Topics
Depression, PTSD
Practice & Methods
Integrative Therapies
Extent
6 pages
Publisher
JKMS
Rights
© 2018 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
APA Citation
Bae, H., Kim, D., Cho, Y., Kim, D., & Kim, S. H. (2018). Add-on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for adults with posttraumatic stress disorder who failed to respond to initial antidepressant pharmacotherapy. Journal of Korean Medical Science, 33(48), e306. Open access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249165/
Audience
EMDR Therapists, Other Mental Health Professionals
Language
English
Content Type
Article, Peer-Reviewed
Access Type
External Resource, Open Access
