A Randomized Controlled Comparison of Emotional Freedom Technique and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Adolescent Anxiety: A Pilot Study

Gaesser, Amy H.; Karan, Orv C.

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“…In the study by Gaesser and Karan (2017) and studies currently underway, gifted students have reported effectively using EFT to address anxiety related to being in crowds, fear of failure and performing, generalized worry, and relieving their physical symptoms of anxiety (e.g., headaches, stomachaches, rapid breathing). In addition, they have shared that using EFT has helped them with feeling more confident approaching tasks and in social situations, falling asleep, concentrating, and completing homework.…”

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Befriending Anxiety to Reach Potential: Strategies to Empower Our Gifted Youth

Gaesser

2018

Gifted Child Today

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Gifted students can encounter anxiety-provoking stressors throughout their day. Developing effective anxiety management skills allows them to better navigate these challenges. Concepts from neuroscience help us better understand responses to anxiety and can assist gifted youth and those working with them in recognizing how and when to best apply anxiety management strategies. This article reviews these concepts and integrating them into the classroom environment to assist with this learning process. In addition, it examines an evidenced-based anxiety management intervention that has been found to be efficacious for gifted youth, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Results of recent EFT research are reviewed and the steps to learning EFT are outlined.

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Befriending Anxiety to Reach Potential: Strategies to Empower Our Gifted Youth

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2018

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“…Wells et al [50] found significant treatment effects after only one session of EFT when investigating subjects with specific phobia (diagnosed by means of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition - DSM-IV). So far, the description of possible Tapping treatment effects has mostly been restricted to behavioral data [50,51,52]. There are only few studies investigating electrophysiological correlates of EFT or its precursor Thought Field Therapy (TFT).…”

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How Therapeutic Tapping Can Alter Neural Correlates of Emotional Prosody Processing in Anxiety

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Anxiety disorders are the most common psychological disorders worldwide resulting in a great demand of adequate and cost-effective treatment. New short-term interventions can be used as an effective adjunct or alternative to pharmaco- and psychotherapy. One of these approaches is therapeutic tapping. It combines somatic stimulation of acupressure points with elements from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Tapping reduces anxiety symptoms after only one session. Anxiety is associated with a deficient emotion regulation for threatening stimuli. These deficits are compensated e.g., by CBT. Whether Tapping can also elicit similar modulations and which dynamic neural correlates are affected was subject to this study. Anxiety patients were assessed listening to pseudowords with a different emotional prosody (happy, angry, fearful, and neutral) prior and after one Tapping session. The emotion-related component Late Positive Potential (LPP) was investigated via electroencephalography. Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) served as control intervention. Results showed LPP reductions for negative stimuli after the interventions. Interestingly, PMR influenced fearful and Tapping altered angry prosody. While PMR generally reduced arousal for fearful prosody, Tapping specifically affected fear-eliciting, angry stimuli, and might thus be able to reduce anxiety symptoms. Findings highlight the efficacy of Tapping and its impact on neural correlates of emotion regulation.

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“…The emotional freedom technique is a safe, fast, reliable, and effective treatment for physical and psychological aspects (Bach et al, 2019;Gaesser & Karan, 2017). The emotional Freedom Technique is proof that one's health depends on the balance of energy in the body that flows throughout the body.…”

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Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Therapy on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Patients to Reduce Fatigue

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Introduction: Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms felt by patients who experience Chronic Kidney Disease, the level of fatigue experienced from low to severe. Some management to deal with fatigue has been done a lot, but the results have not been maximized. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a psychological therapy that can treat many diseases, both physical illness and psychological illness. Aims: This study aims to determine the effect of EFT therapy on fatigue in CKD patients.Methods: This type of research is a quasi-experimental design with a control group pre-post-test Sample divided into 2 groups, consisted of 19 people, selected through purposive sampling.Results: The results showed that the p-value in the treatment group = 0,000 means that there is an effect of therapy EFT on health in CKD patients, whereas, in the control group, there is no difference with the p-value = 1,000. Discussion: The change in CKD patients' fatigue level after EFT therapy is due to a combination of techniques that support the effectiveness of EFT therapy.Conclusion: With this study, it is expected that hospitals can carry out EFT therapy to reduce fatigue in CKD patients to help cure patients.

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A Randomized Controlled Comparison of Emotional Freedom Technique and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Adolescent Anxiety: A Pilot Study

Abstract: EFT is an efficacious intervention to significantly reduce anxiety for high-ability adolescents.

Cited by 33 publications

References 60 publications

Befriending Anxiety to Reach Potential: Strategies to Empower Our Gifted Youth

Befriending Anxiety to Reach Potential: Strategies to Empower Our Gifted Youth

How Therapeutic Tapping Can Alter Neural Correlates of Emotional Prosody Processing in Anxiety

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Therapy on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Patients to Reduce Fatigue

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