EMDR Therapy for Suicide & Postvention
03/01/24 • 33 min
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S. In 2021, 48,183 Americans died by suicide and 1.70 million attempts. The numbers tracked by the World Health Organization are more staggering: more than 700,000 people die each year by suicide. How can EMDR therapy help those considering or who have attempted and the family/friends they leave behind? EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant Marlene Kenney talks to us about how EMDR therapists can help.
Resources:
- 4 Elements Script for Establishing Present Safety Resources
- 988 is the suicide and crisis hotline in the United States, or text TALK to 741741
- Ukraine Suicide Hotline
- The Trevor Project
- Out of the Darkness Walks with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- EMDR Early Intervention
- David Grand YouTube Channel with bilateral or binaural sounds
- EMDRIA Client Brochures
- Focal Point Blog
- EMDRIA Practice Resources
- EMDRIA's Find an EMDR Therapist Directory lists more than 15,000 EMDR therapists.
- Follow @EMDRIA on Twitter. Connect with EMDRIA on Facebook or subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
- EMDRIA Online Membership Communities for EMDR Therapists
Musical soundtrack, Acoustic Motivation 11290, supplied royalty-free by Pixabay.
Produced by Kim Howard, CA
Learn more about EMDR therapy at www.emdria.org.
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S. In 2021, 48,183 Americans died by suicide and 1.70 million attempts. The numbers tracked by the World Health Organization are more staggering: more than 700,000 people die each year by suicide. How can EMDR therapy help those considering or who have attempted and the family/friends they leave behind? EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant Marlene Kenney talks to us about how EMDR therapists can help.
Resources:
- 4 Elements Script for Establishing Present Safety Resources
- 988 is the suicide and crisis hotline in the United States, or text TALK to 741741
- Ukraine Suicide Hotline
- The Trevor Project
- Out of the Darkness Walks with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- EMDR Early Intervention
- David Grand YouTube Channel with bilateral or binaural sounds
- EMDRIA Client Brochures
- Focal Point Blog
- EMDRIA Practice Resources
- EMDRIA's Find an EMDR Therapist Directory lists more than 15,000 EMDR therapists.
- Follow @EMDRIA on Twitter. Connect with EMDRIA on Facebook or subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
- EMDRIA Online Membership Communities for EMDR Therapists
Musical soundtrack, Acoustic Motivation 11290, supplied royalty-free by Pixabay.
Produced by Kim Howard, CA
Learn more about EMDR therapy at www.emdria.org.
Previous Episode
EMDR Therapy for Moral Injury
What is moral injury, and who can it impact? Moral injury, as defined by this episode's guest is: It is an existential and or spiritual crisis. that can be the consequence of having been trained to override the intrinsic and instinctive aversion to the taking of human life, that it is about killing, which is an act that can't be undone. And that humans are not prepared for the aftermath of that. It can also be the consequence of having engaged in combat operations, however necessary at the time, that creates a conflict between one's moral code and one's actions. There is that dissonance between what I was raised to believe, what I was taught to believe, what I do believe, and what I just had to do." Moral injury impacts military personnel, veterans, war correspondents, first responders, and medical personnel. Eva Usadi, MA, BCD, CGP, an EMDR-certified therapist and consultant, discusses how EMDR therapy can heal moral injury. Learn more about how EMDR therapy can heal moral injury.
Resources:
- Trauma and Resiliency Resources, Inc.
- EMDR & PTSD YouTube Video, CBS News
- Healing the Heart and Soul of our Nation's Warriors: EMDR for Moral Injury, presented by Eva Usadi, EMDRIA Annual Conference, 2022
- Moral Injury Event Scale, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD
- EMDRIA Client Brochures
- Focal Point Blog
- EMDRIA Practice Resources
- EMDRIA Online Community for Military or First Responders and Protective Services Personnel (must be a member to log in)
- EMDRIA's Find an EMDR Therapist Directory lists more than 15,000 EMDR therapists.
- Follow @EMDRIA on Twitter. Connect with EMDRIA on Facebook or subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
Musical soundtrack, Acoustic Motivation 11290, supplied royalty-free by Pixabay.
Produced by Kim Howard, CAE.
Learn more about EMDR therapy at www.emdria.org.
Next Episode
EMDR Therapy and the American Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Population
According to the U.S. Census 2019, there were an estimated 22.9 million Asian Americans, 1.6 million Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders (AANHPI), together accounting for 7.2 percent of the nation's population. The percentage of Asian alone-or-in-combination military veterans in 2021 was 2.4 percent. While the population numbers might seem small, the AANPHI community has also been touched by trauma. Enter EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant-in-Training Sherry Yam, LCSW, to discuss how EMDR therapy can help to heal members of this community and their collective trauma.
Resources
- EMDRIA Client Brochures
- Focal Point Blog
- EMDRIA EMDR and Diversity, Community and Culture Special Interest Group (SIG)
- EMDRIA Practice Resources
- EMDRIA's Find an EMDR Therapist Directory lists more than 15,000 EMDR therapists.
- Follow @EMDRIA on Twitter. Connect with EMDRIA on Facebook or subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
- EMDRIA Online Membership Communities for EMDR Therapists
Musical soundtrack, Acoustic Motivation 11290, supplied royalty-free by Pixabay.
Produced by Kim Howard, CAE
Learn more about EMDR therapy at www.emdria.org.
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