We say ‘established’ rather than ‘developed’ or ‘created’ because if one compares the content of Clinical EFT training, it is fair to say there is nothing in that training that is different from the EFT training offered by the EFT and Mindfulness Centre since 2008, the protocol is the same. IS 'CLINICAL EFT' OR 'EVIDENCE BASED EFT' THE SAME AS TRADITIONAL, REGULAR EFT?Ī few years ago Dawson Church established what he called ‘Clinical EFT’ as a way of avoiding the use of Gary Craig’s trademark of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). In Australia and the US, we also want to thank the continued good work by Dr Peta Stapleton, Dawson Church et al on their past, current and ongoing research programmes. We'd like to thank Dr Elizabeth Boath and Prof Dave Stewart who have been very prolific in conducting clinical trials for EFT in the UK and getting it past the first threshold to merit further research! EFT is in the top 10% in terms of research for psychotherapy modalities. There are over 400 identified forms of psychotherapy, and the majority of them have very little research to validate them. In particular, the randomised controlled trials and outcome studies show 98% positive results! In the last few years research has gathered pace and the quality has improved. 4 meta-analyses (a further 2 on anxiety, depression and PTSD will be published in 2016).The bottom line is that solid research will help more people to heal. As this happens EFT will reach a bigger volume of clients, practitioners, and those in the healing field. Explaining the science behind EFT, and proving it works through research, will gradually enable EFT to be more widely accepted. We cannot deny that EFT does look and sound strange when seeing it for the first time and what we don't know may scare us too.
Even Wikipedia supports the sceptics but these sources are not well informed. There are still some sceptics who dismiss EFT as pseudoscience and claim it is nothing more than a placebo effect and that there is no research to show it works. Those of us who have been working for a while with EFT know this through experience.īut for those who need convincing about the efficacy of EFT, research is crucially important. There is now robust evidence that EFT and other energy psychology techniques work extremely well.
In 2017 there were over 100 research studies, review articles and meta-analyses that have been published in professional, peer-reviewed journals. WHAT RESEARCH HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT ON EFT? Read further to find out whether EFT is evidence based. Many of you will have seen training courses advertised as ‘Evidence Based EFT’ which is a natural draw for people seeking to receive such treatment or having it accepted by mental health professionals.
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