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EMDR for treatment of anxiety disorder in a patient with intellectual disability

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, eight-phase, mainly non-verbal psychotherapeutic approach that is developed to resolve symptoms that have stemmed from disturbing and unprocessed life experiences. EMDR is well…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities, Learning Disability, Mental Retardation, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

EMDR for treatment of anxiety disorders in a patient with intellectual disability - A case report

Background: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, eight-phase psychotherapeutic approach, developed to resolve symptoms resulting from disturbing and unprocessed life experiences. EMDR is well known for the treatment…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities, Learning Disability, Mental Retardation, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing in the treatment of trauma with mild intellectual disabilities

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in an individual with mild intellectual disabilities currently compulsorily detained in secure care.…

Tags: Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Psychotherapeutic Approach, Trauma

PTSS bij mensen met een verstandelijke beperking (VB) en zwakbegaafdheid PTSD in people with intellectual disabilities (VB) and mental retardation

Naar schatting 1,3 miljoen Nederlands hebben een IQ beneden 85. Het overgrote deel hiervan heeft een lichte VB of is zwakbegaafd en een relatief kleine groep heeft ernstige verstandelijke beperkingen. In de dagelijkse praktijk binnen de geestelijke…

Tags: Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Do persons with intellectual disability and limited verbal capacities respond to trauma treatment?

Background. There is not one case report of successful trauma treatment with the use of an evidence-based treatment method in people with substantially limited verbal capacities. This paper assessed the applicability of eye movement desensitisation…

Tags: Developmental Disability, Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Retardation

PTSD and its treatment in people with intellectual disabilities: A review of the literature

Although there is evidence to suggest that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are likely to suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), reviews of the evidence base, and the potential consequences of this contention are absent. The…

Tags: Assessment, Intellectual Disabilities, Learning Disability, Mental Retardation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prevalence, Psychological Trauma, PTSD, Trauma Treatment

Trauma and beyond: EMDR in the treatment of traumatized clients with mental retardation (MH/MR diagnosis)

For the past three decades, clinical experience as well as research has supported the validity of counseling and psychotherapy in the treatment of dually diagnosed (MH/MR) clients. At first behavioral therapies and later various forms of…

Tags: Children, Developmentally Disabled, Dually Diagnosed (MH/MR), Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Symposium, Trauma Treatment

Adapting the standard EMDR protocol for clients with mild mental retardation: Some guidelines and implications

EMDR as a psychotherapeutic approach has been shown to be effective. However, there is a paucity of studies examining the efficacy of EMDR for clients diagnosed with mild mental retardation. The DSM-IV defines mild mental retardation as below average…

Tags: Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Retardation

Honoring their voice: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing through the eyes of inmates with developmental disabilities

This study examined the efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on inmates with developmental disabilities (DD) who were incarcerated in a special needs correctional facility in the southwestern United States. Cognitively,…

Tags: Americans, Empirical Study, Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prison Inmate, PTSD, Quantitative Study, Self Esteem, Treatment Effectiveness

EMDR with clients with mental disability

Until recent times those with the dual diagnosis of mental retardation and mental health issues were deemed inappropriate candidates for counseling or psychotherapy. Dysfunctional behaviors and emotional displays generated by mood disorders, grief,…

Tags: Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Stressor, Survivor

The heart with a door: An EMDR with clients with mental disabilities

For the past three decades clinical experience, as well as research, has supported the validity of counseling and psychotherapy in the treatment of dually diagnosed (MH/MR) clients. At first behavioral therapies and later various forms of…

Tags: Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Retardation

EMDR with mentally handicapped clients (MH/MR diagnosis)

Only within the past few decades has the use of counseling and psychotherapy for this much neglected population been validated and explored. Given the non-verbal and "right-brain" characteristics of EMDR, it seems there would be a natural fit between…

Tags: Mental Retardation

EMDR for mentally retarded people

After a short introduction concerning the special problems people with an intellectual handicap often have in their iives and the many forms of psychotrauma which arise for them in situations which are by others sometimes not experienced as…

Tags: Mental Retardation, Poster

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