Veteran's Holistic Services

PTSD

• The effectiveness of EFT in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis 

• EFT to treat posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans: Review of the evidence, survey of practitioners, and proposed clinical guidelines

• The manual stimulation of acupuncture points in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder: A review of Clinical EFT

• A controlled comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of two psychological therapies for PTSD: EMDR vs. EFT

• Psychological trauma symptom improvement in veterans using EFT: A randomized controlled trial

• EFT remediates PTSD and psychological symptoms in veterans: A randomized controlled replication trial

• CAM and energy psychology techniques remediate PTSD symptoms in veterans and spouses

• Borrowing benefits: Group treatment with Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques is associated with simultaneous reductions in posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression symptoms

• Evaluating a 3-week model for reducing symptoms of stress in traumatized youth using the Trauma Tapping Technique (TTT) for self-help: A pilot trial

• Six sessions of EFT remediate one veteran's combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder

• Efficacy of two evidence-based therapies, EFT and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), for the treatment of gender violence in the Congo: A randomized controlled trial

• Effects of integrative PTSD treatment in a military health setting

• Epigenetic effects of PTSD remediation in veterans using Clinical EFT: A randomized controlled pilot study

• Randomized controlled study comparing two psychological therapies for PTSD: EFT vs. Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)

• EFT and resiliency in veterans at risk for PTSD: A randomized controlled trial

• Single session reduction of the intensity of traumatic memories in abused adolescents: A randomized controlled trial

• Efficacy of EFT provided by coaches vs. licensed therapists in veterans with PTSD

• Neurophysiological indicators of EFT Treatment of posttraumatic stress

• Post-earthquake rehabilitation of clinical PTSD in Haitian seminarians

• The impact of EFT and Matrix Reimprinting on the civilian survivors of war in Bosnia: A pilot study

• Psychological symptom change in veterans after six sessions of EFT: An observational study

• Spiritual Emotional Freedom Techniques (SEFT) improves quality of life in women experiencing a landslide disaster

• The effectiveness of an SQ-EFT (Spiritual Quranic Emotional Freedom Techniques) intervention in patients with schizophrenia

• Six trauma imprints treated with combination intervention: Critical incident stress debriefing and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) or EFT

• Telephone delivery of EFT remediates PTSD symptoms in veterans

• The treatment of combat trauma in veterans using EFT: A pilot protocol

• Psychological intervention including EFT for an adult with motor vehicle accident related PTSD: A case study

• The efficacy of EFT for treating trauma in a female population following an earthquake in Indonesia 

• Established and emerging PTSD treatments 

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Clinical Reports

Clinical Reports describe the use of EFT with various groups, e.g., university students, prisoners, refugees, or abused children. They may contain quantitative data such as scores on symptom assessments or they may describe the ways in which practitioners can work with this population.

• Energy Psychology: Practices and theories of new combinations of psychotherapy

• Supporting chronic disease healthcare through remote EFT Treatment and self-care: An evaluation using the WHO determinants of health

• EFT entry in The Sage Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy

• A virtual emotional freedom practitioner to deliver physical and emotional therapy

• EFT: Finally, a unifying theory for the practice of holistic nursing, or too good to be true?

• Application of EFT

• Change is possible: EFT with life-sentence and veteran prisoners at San Quentin State Prison

• EFT: A safe treatment intervention for many trauma-based issues

• A survey of energy psychology practitioners: Who they are, what they do, who they help 

• Determining highly desirable traits of an effective EFT practitioner: A Delphi study 

• Emotional acupuncture—Nursing Standard

• Energy Psychology and psychotherapy: A study of the use of Energy Psychology in psychotherapy practice

• Subjective dimensions of meaning in the clinical encounter: Unifying personhood and disease 

• Stress management for the treatment of sleep disorders in lawyers: Pilot experimental study in Athens, Hellas

• A virtual emotional freedom therapy practitioner (Demonstration)

• The effect of EFT therapy on the reduction of aggression in single mothers

• Qualitative analysis of the influence of an EFT group treatment program for suppressed anger patients

• EFT remediates dental fear: A case series 

• Six Sessions of Emotional Freedom Techniques Remediate One Veteran's Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Clinical story of a 6-year-old boy's eating phobia: An integrated approach

• EFT for traumatic brain injury

• Treating trauma using shamanic and non-local methods: Theory, mechanisms, and relevance to current clinical practice

• EFT, in The Practising Midwife

• EFT: Energy psychology integration in the workplace setting

• Energy Psychology treatment for orphan heads of households in Rwanda: An observational study

• Energy Psychology treatment for posttraumatic stress in genocide survivors in a Rwandan orphanage: A pilot investigation

• Integrating Energy Psychology into treatment for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse

• Preliminary evidence for the treatment of type I 'yips': The efficacy of the Emotional Freedom Techniques

• Single-session EFT for stress-related symptoms after motor vehicle accidents

• It helps me to love my work: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the senior therapist experience of using Energy Psychology in psychotherapy for trauma

• Energy for healing trauma: Energy Psychology and the efficient treatment of trauma and PTSD

• Six trauma imprints treated with combination intervention: Critical incident stress debriefing and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) or EFT

• Psychological intervention including EFT for an adult with motor vehicle accident related PTSD: A case study

• A case report of schizophreniform disorder treated by Oriental medical treatment and EFT

• A case report of a somatization disorder patient with histrionic personality disorder

• A case report of a patient with heart and gallbladder somatization disorder induced by stress

• A case study of Tourette’s syndrome with adjunct neurofeedback treatment

• Veterans: Finding their way home with EFT

• Working with military service members and veterans: A field report of obstacles and opportunities

• Effect of trance techniques on emotion and pain: Utilizing NLP and EFT

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Mechanisms Papers

The "mechanisms of action" for a technique such as EFT describe what is happening in the body during application of the technique. These papers describe the neurological, epigenetic, psychoneuroimmunological, and hormonal pathways engaged by EFT.

• The effect of EFT on stress biochemistry: A randomized controlled trial

• Epigenetic effects of PTSD remediation in veterans using Clinical EFT: A randomized controlled pilot study

• Pain, range of motion, and psychological symptoms in a population with frozen shoulder: A randomized controlled dismantling study of Clinical EFT

• Differential gene expression after EFT treatment: A novel pilot protocol for salivary mRNA assessment

• Neurophysiological indicators of EFT treatment of posttraumatic stress

• Modulating gene expression through psychotherapy: The contribution of non-invasive somatic interventions

• Taming the amygdala: An EEG analysis of exposure therapy for the traumatized

• EFT as an effective adjunctive treatment in the neurotherapeutic treatment of seizure disorders

• Is acupoint tapping an active ingredient or an inert placebo in EFT? A randomized controlled dismantling study

• EFT for stress in students: A randomized controlled dismantling study

• Influence of Spiritual Therapy EFT (SEFT) on cortisol levels and immunoglobulin E (study of anxiety in pregnant women in independent practice midwives Semarang)

• Energy healing at the frontier of genomics

• How EFT may be utilizing memory reconsolidation mechanisms for therapeutic change in neuropsychiatric disorders such as PTSD and phobia: A proposed model

• Energy Psychology in rehabilitation: Origins, clinical applications, and theory

• The neurochemistry of counterconditioning: Acupressure desensitization in psychotherapy

• A neurobiological basis for the observed peripheral sensory modulation of emotional responses

• Evidence and potential mechanisms for mindfulness practices and energy psychology for obesity and binge-eating disorder

• The Dream to Freedom Technique, a methodology for integrating the complementary therapies of Energy Psychology and dreamwork