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Anxiety
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
Also known as tapping, the emotional freedom technique (EFT) is a holistic healing process that can help resolve a range of issues, including stress, anxiety, phobias, and emotional disorders. If physical stimuli help you to calm your body, EFT can be beneficial.
How East Met West
Published in Tricia L. Chandler, Fredrick Dombrowski, Tara G. Matthews, Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, 2022
There have been over 115 studies done on energy psychology effectiveness since 2000, with 65 randomized controlled trials and over 50 pre-post outcomes studies establishing that protocols of EFT and TFT are evidence based (Feinstein, 2018; Mollon, 2007). These studies include beneficial outcomes for the treatment of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and food and substance cravings, along with studies on physiological effects of EFT, with three studies showing changes of DNA markers, cortisol changes, heart-rate variability, and blood pressure, along with immune system biomarkers (Nelms & Castel, 2016; Nelms, 2017; Stapleton, 2018). While more research will continue to demonstrate the efficacy of energy psychology in speeding up the individual’s ability to improve mental and physical health, reducing the emotional triggers in those with trauma backgrounds and PTSD, the efficacy of these techniques has been recognized by the Veterans Administration and have been accepted in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service from preliminary evidence that EFT should be of the highest priority to research for the treatment of PTSD (Feinstein, 2018; Sebastian & Nelms, 2017).
Bereavement
Published in Cooper Jo, Burnard Philip, Stepping into Palliative Care 2, 2017
Emotional freedom technique (EFT) is a comparatively new psychological therapy used in the treatment of fears, phobias and negative emotions. It is reported to have been helpful in alleviating the emotional pain of bereavement. Painful memories are not forgotten but the emotional pain is discharged. While it may not be appropriate to clear these emotions at the time of the loss, they can be reduced to a manageable level. This encourages the bereaved person to share and cherish memories with others without the additional burden of intense emotional pain.9
Emotion focused therapy with injured athletes: Conceptualizing injury challenges and working with emotions
Published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2022
Katherine A. Tamminen, Jeanne C. Watson
Emotion Focused Therapy offers promise for working with injured athletes due to its focus on emotions as adaptive resources that involve meaning systems to inform people of the significance of events (Greenberg, 2008). Such an approach seeks to support emotional awareness, understanding, and acceptance of emotional experiences and the meanings associated with them. The phenomenon of sport injuries, viewed through the lens of EFT, can be seen as producing several potential conflicts or challenges including the need to attend to the body and listen to the body, tending to pain versus pushing through pain, interpersonal challenges arising during the injury and rehabilitation process, concerns about one’s identity as an athlete, and feelings surrounding a loss of progress and concerns about time left in one’s career as an athlete. Thus, a key message for sport psychology practitioners is not to simply focus on devising strategies to help athletes minimize emotions such as anxiety, sadness, anger surrounding their injury; rather, it may be fruitful to guide athletes in exploring these emotions and to make meaning through the elicitation and processing of emotions in a safe therapeutic setting. In doing so, athletes may benefit from support for their psychological healing and to attain their sport performance goals. Thus, EFT could be a useful approach to enable therapists to work ‘with’ emotions rather than working ‘on’ emotions or regulating them via deliberate conscious processes.
Frailty Assessment of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Patients: Contemporary Practice and Future Directions
Published in Structural Heart, 2021
Ming-yu (Anthony) Chuang, Mariama Akodad, Andrew Chatfield, Uri Landes, Abdul Ihdayhid, Sudish Lal, David A. Wood, John G Webb, Janarthanan Sathananthan
The essential frailty toolset (EFT) is a 5-point screening tool that consists of 4 components.9 It was shown to have superior prognostic performance compared to other frailty assessment tools in the FRAILTY-AVR study, which compared 7 different frailty instruments in 1,020 older adults undergoing TAVR or surgical AVR. The EFT had the highest overall c-statistic of 0.78 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.75–0.82) with an EFT score of ≥3 being significantly associated with an increased risk of 1-year mortality or worsening disability (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 2.13, 95%CI = 1.57–2.87). It also predicted futility where 4 out of 5 patients with an EFT score of 5 (worst possible score) experienced death or disability at 1-year.9 The EFT has practical advantages including being able to be performed in approximately 5 minutes without specialist equipment, having relatively high interobserver reliability, objective nature of its sub-components, and being potentially actionable.
Veterans’ Treatment Engagement and Dropout from Couple and Family Therapy in a Veterans Affairs Health Care System
Published in Military Behavioral Health, 2021
Jerika C. Norona, Brian Borsari, Keith Armstrong, Sarah Shonkwiler
As part of typical EFT protocol, the first four sessions make up the assessment phase of treatment. The assessment phase includes two conjoint sessions with all couple/family members to understand their presenting problem, relationship history, their typical communication pattern, and their goals for treatment. The subsequent two sessions are individual sessions with each family member to understand their individual histories, family of origin, and other experiences in close relationships that contribute to their current role in their relationship dynamics. The active phase of treatment typically begins at the fifth session, when families receive feedback about information gathered during the assessment and begin addressing their communication patterns.