Healing & Preventing Sexual Assault in the Military

Healing & Preventing Sexual Assault in the Military

Elizabeth Handy

As we know, there is sexual assault in the military. And it isn’t just women who are assaulted, it’s men too. So, what can we do about it?

What we do about sexual assault is process it as trauma. Sexual assault is a traumatic event that has to be processed and brought out into the open. And more and more people need to talk about it— we have to advocate for better education and advocacy around it not happening in the first place.

Read more about EMDR for treatment of sexual assault-related trauma in the military in the EMDR Research Institute’s September newsletter.