Hospital patients (Karatzias, et al., 2011),.Overweight adults (Stapleton, Bannatyne, Porter, Urzi, & Sheldon, 2016 Stapleton, Church, Sheldon, Porter, & Carlopio, 2013 Stapleton, Sheldon, & Porter, 2012),.Pain patients (Bougea et al., 2013 Church & Nelms, 2016 Stapleton et al., 2017),.Veterans (Church et al., 2013 Geronila et al., 2014).
College students (Church, De Asis, & Brooks, 2012 Stapleton et al., 2017).General psychological functioning (Church, 2008 Stewart, Boath, Carryer, Walton, & Hill, 2011).Epigenetic and physiological functioning (Church, Yount, Rachlin, Nelms, 2016 Maharaj, 2016).Learning disabilities / educational (McCallion, 2012 Stapleton, et al., 2017).Sporting / athletic performance (Church, 2009b Church & Downs, 2012 Llewellyn-Edwards & Llewellyn-Edwards, 2012 Rotheram et al., 2012).Frozen shoulder (Church & Nelms, 2016) Psoriasis (Hodge & Jurgens, 2011) Insomnia (Lee, Chung & Kim, 2015) Seizure disorders (Swingle, 2000).Pain/Fibromyalgia/tension headaches (Bougea et al., 2013 Brattberg, 2008 Church, 2008 Ortner, Palmer-Hoffman & Clond, 2014 Stapleton, Chatwin, Sheppard, & McSwan, 2017).Obesity / emotional eating / food cravings (Stapleton, Sheldon, Porter, & Whitty, 2011 Stapleton, Sheldon, & Porter, 2012a, 2012b Stapleton, Church, Sheldon, Porter, & Carlopio, 2013 Stapleton et al., 2016a, 2016b).Addiction (Church & Brooks, 2013 Palmer-Hoffman & Brooks, 2011).Depression (Chatwin, Stapleton, Porter, Devine, & Sheldon, 2016 Church, De Asis, & Brooks, 2012 Stapleton, Devine, Chatwin, Porter, & Sheldon, 2014 Stapleton, Church, Sheldon, & Porter, 2013).Stress (Bougea et al., 2013 Church & Brooks, 2010 Church, Yount, & Brooks, 2011 Rowe, 2005).General trauma (Kober et al., 2002 Lubin, Hari, Schneider, & Tiffany, 2009 Swingle, Pulos, & Swingle, 2005).PTSD (Burk, 2010 Church, 2009a Church, Geronilla, & Dinter, 2009 Church et al., 2013 Church & Brooks, 2014 Church, Pina, Reategui, & Brooks, 2011 Gurret, Caufour, Palmer-Hoffman, & Church, 2012 Hartung & Stein, 2012 Karatzias et al., 2011 Stein & Brooks, 2011 Zhang et al., 2011).Obsessive compulsive disorder (Moritz et al., 2011).Phobias (Baker & Siegel, 2010 Wells et al., 2003).Test anxiety (Benor et al., 2009 Boath, Stewart, & Carryer, 2013 Jain & Rubino, 2012 Jones, Thornton, & Andrews, 2011 Sezgin, Ozcan, & Church, 2009 Stapleton et al., 2017).General anxiety (Andrade & Feinstein, 2004 Temple & Mollon, 2011 for dental anxiety).Thought Field Therapy (which was a precursor to EFT as a self help and therapy technique) has already been rated by the NREPP as being effective for personal resilience/self-concept, self-regulation, and trauma and stressor-related disorders and ‘promising’ for depression general functioning and well-being phobia, panic and generalized anxiety and ‘unspecified’ and other mental health disorders.ĭisorders / Conditions that have been Studied We also see in many trials the reporting of clinical significance, and also clinical change (as a percentage difference).ĮFT is also currently under review with the American National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) for effectiveness. This means the outcomes have reached the minimum p-value of 0.05 so the outcomes were not necessarily due to chance, and were therefore statistically significant. This list represents a very small sample of populations and disorders where the evidence lies. However this short timeframe has resulted in widespread research, for a vast range of disorders and populations. While EFT emerged as a self-help tool in the 1970s, it has only been extensively studied in trials since the 1990s.