EMDR for Disaster-Exposed Children – a 2011 Randomized Controlled Study: A Translating Research Into Practice Link
Many of you will be working with children impacted locally or through the media by Friday’s shooting in Newtown, CT. For your reference, here is the most recently published (2011) randomized controlled study on the use of EMDR with children exposed to disaster. The study concluded that standardized CBT and EMDR interventions can significantly improve functioning of disaster exposed children, with treatment gains reached in fewer sessions with EMDR.
de Roos, C., Greenwald, R., den Hollander-Gijsman, M., Noorthoorn, E., van Buuren, S., & de Jongh, A. (2011). A randomized comparison of CBT and EMDR for disaster-exposed children. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2, 5694. DOI: 10.3402.
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