Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a relatively new Alternative Medicine emotional therapy
Dmitry Kulikov Sabres Jersey , developed in the mid 1990s. It is not at all like the practice of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, or any kind of
conventional talk therapy. EFT has been described as acupuncture for the
emotions, except that needles are not used ??only the tapping of fingertips
applied to specific acupuncture points to affect a change in the way a person
feels about a previously stressful memory or situation. As such, EFT is best
categorized in the new field of energy psychology. There is much current
interest in EFT because of it growing reputation as a fast, simple and rather
successful therapy that often succeeds with emotional problems that are
non-responsive to years of traditional treatment. For this reason, more
scientific scrutiny is being cast on EFT, especially concerning its
effectiveness. In this early phase of medical research, two very important
projects have already investigated the ability of EFT to address phobias or
irrational fears. When Steve Wells, an Australian psychologist, and his
associates decided to study EFT, they chose to evaluate its clinical effect on
specific phobias to small animals that are often universally distressing to
humans (mice
Alexander Nylander Sabres Jersey , rates, and insects such as spiders and cockroaches). What is now being called the ??he Wells Study??has been published
in a leading peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Clinical Psychology. In this
study, Wells and his group compared the effects of EFT against those of a
standard deep breathing technique that is often suggested to control fears, such
as those associated with small animals and insects. In this study, Wells
suggested a deep breathing method that included identical reminder phrases and
most other parts of the standard EFT protocol. Intentionally, the only
difference between these two techniques was the fact that during EFT the
participants tapped on meridian end points, while in the comparison treatment
the subjects did not tap at all. The Wells Study supports the idea that deep
breathing, by itself, is a beneficial in treatment of small animal phobia; in
fact, it was so successful that its results made it difficult for EFT to surpass
it in the clinical results of this study. Even so, the clinical results of EFT
were better than this simple and effective breathing technique, as determined by
four of five measures used to evaluate beneficial effects on the body
Tyler Ennis Sabres Jersey , while the differences between these two techniques were markedly better and significantly higher in a statistic
analysis. In the most important test to assess effectiveness of these two
techniques, in which a measurement was made to determine how close each
participant would walk up to their feared animal object after treatment, it was
those who were treated by EFT who sustained their loss of fear and sense of
comfort with that animal than those treated only with deep breathing, when
retested at six and nine months post test treatment in the research study. In
fact, those individuals who were less fearful immediately after being treated
with EFT continued to be less fearful even after a prolonged time during which
EFT was not used again to support or sustain that benefit. Further, all 35
participants received only a single 30-minute EFT therapy session, or a single
30-minute diaphragmatic breathing session. Neither group was retrained,
re-treated or re-exposed to their treatment method before undergoing the six and
nine month re-testing. This suggests the beneficial effects of EFT to reduce
phobic fears of small animals is remarkably long-lasting. The Wells study
demonstrated that Emotional Freedom Technique is an effective and long-lasting
treatment for small animal phobias, in spite of the therapy being applied once,
for only 30 minutes. Re-testing of the Wells Study The scientific community is
traditionally skeptical of new research information until this new data can be
re-tested by a different laboratory andor group, usually by attempting to
reproduce the results of the first study. When reproduction of the initial test
results can be obtained, it suggests that it was not merely luck, bias or
factual manipulation that influenced the first results. Thus
Rasmus Ristolainen Sabres Jersey , A. Harvey Baker, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Queens College, New York City, and his co-author, Linda Seigel,
retested the Wells Study, closely matching and often making stricter the
conditions of the Wells Study. Their study is entitled, ??an a 45-minute session
of EFT lead to reduction of intense fear of rats, spiders and water bugs ??a
replication and extension of the Wells et al. (2003) laboratory study.??
However, Dr. Baker applied even more stringent research controls than were used
in the Wells Study. His research also included a non-treatment control group,
against which comparison could be made; his study participants sat in a
laboratory for 30 minutes either studying or reading magazines provided that did
not deal with the fearful animals. Additionally
Zach Bogosian Sabres Jersey , the study used a more common method to treat fears than is the deep breathing technique used in the Wells Study. The
other fear treatment method closely resembled a nondirective counseling approach
developed by Carl Rogers; they called it the Supportive Interview. Of the 31
people in this new evaluation Baker-Seigel Study, three groups were randomly
placed into an EFT, Supportive Interview, or resting group. This new evaluation
process also included a feature in which the person testing each subject was
"blind" to which group the person belonged. Dr. Baker did not instruct the EFT
group to practice or use EFT again during the waiting interval before the
re-testing would be done. Lastly, to increase the testing measure, instead of a
six and nine month re-testing interval, the Baker-Seigel Study used an interval
between the initial treatment and testing, and the final testing, of 1.38 years.
In this way the final re-evaluat<.
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