Psychomotor therapy for individuals with mild intellectual disabilities or borderline intellectual functioning presenting anger regulation problems and/or aggressive behaviour: A qualitative study on clients’ experiences

Background Psychomotor therapy (PMT) is often applied in Dutch clinical practice to address aggressive behaviour individuals with mild intellectual disabilities or borderline functioning. However, the literature on clients’ experiences lacking.Methods An interpretative phenomenological analysis was used analyse semi-structured interviews of seven participants (19–60 years; four male, three female) who completed PMT targeting anger regulation problems.Results According participants, becoming aware increasing tension and/or learning downregulate were main goals PMT. They emphasised both possibility learn by doing and therapeutic alliance as essential create a safe context, where can experiment alternative behaviour. After completing PMT, perceived fewer outbursts an increased self-esteem.Conclusions Participants our sample experienced being helpful problems The experiential nature program valuable aspect