Integrated Trauma Treatment in Drug Court:Combining EMDR Therapy and Seeking Safety

摘要

Trauma and co-occurring substance use disorders are disproportionately prevalent in individuals involvedin the criminal justice system. The Thurston County Drug Court Program (TCDCP) in Washington Stateconducted a preliminary study with 220 participants arrested for nonviolent, felony drug-related crimes.All TCDCP participants were required to engage in a structured 12- to 18-month 3-phase program re-ferred to as Program as Usual (PAU). Data was collected from 2004 to 2009 to investigate the efficacyof adding an "Integrated Trauma Treatment Program" (ITTP) component for those endorsing a CriterionA trauma history (68% of TCDCP). The ITTP combined 2 empirically supported trauma therapies in aphased, integrated approach: mandatory Seeking Safety groups followed by voluntary, individual eyemovement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. The investigators hypothesized that trauma-