A review of mental health and wellbeing measures for universal secondary school screening

Acupressure in psychotherapy as an unsinkable rubber duck: A reply to Feinstein (2023).

“…Because Feinstein (2023) cites Church et al's (2018Church et al's ( , 2020 meta-analyses as one of the main sources of evidence for acupressure as an active treatment component while omitting other studies challenging tapping as an active ingredient (Pignotti, 2005;Waite & Holder, 2003), we remain highly skeptical that there is evidence in support of acupressure as an active treatment component in EFT.…”

“…Absent from Feinstein's discussion is a review of studies that failed to find evidence of the efficacy of EFT or for the mechanism of tapping on acupressure points. As an example, Waite and Holder (2003) found that among college students with self-reported specific phobias, EFT was not superior (using the subjective units of discomfort scale while imagining the phobic object, which we acknowledge is not an ideal outcome measure) to a placebo condition in which alternative parts of the body (not associated with theoretical energy meridians) were tapped, and neither condition was superior to tapping on a doll (which has no credible connection to the purported energy meridians in the body). This omission, which has also been noted in previous reviews on EFT (see Pignotti & Thyer, 2009), is troubling and raises questions about the objectivity of the review.…”

A scoping review of the effects of classroom acoustic conditions on primary school children’s mental wellbeing

“…39 Furthermore, an additional seven measures are reviewed by Waite and Atkinson. 40 Lists of these measures can be found in Table 3. There are likely to be even more child wellbeing measures on top of these 33, so selection of the measure used in future research and how well it assesses wellbeing at school and the impact of classroom acoustics is important.…”

“…Child wellbeing measures reported by Deighton et al, 38 Bates and Boren, 39 and Waite and Atkinson. 40 Deighton et al 38 Bates and Boren 39 Waite and Atkinson…”