All the published studies listed below are statistically significant. Many of them are randomized controlled trials or RCTs, a design generally regarded as the Gold Standard of research. EFT has met the APA standards as an “efficacious” or “probably efficacious” treatment for phobias, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. There are several definitions in the field of medicine (as distinguished from the field of psychology) of what constitutes an “evidence-based” treatment. One of the most useful comes from the US government’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). It requires a standardized description of the method in the form of a manual and training materials, documentation that the treatment was delivered with fidelity to that method, the use of validated and reliable outcome measures, corrections for dropouts (such as an intent-to-treat analysis), appropriate statistical analysis, sample sizes sufficient to produce a probability of p < .05 or better, and publication in a peer-reviewed professional journal.
EFT has been researched in more than 10 countries, by more than 60 investigators, whose results have been published in more than 20 different peer-reviewed journals. These include distinguished top-tier journals such as Journal of Clinical Psychology, the APA journals Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training and Review of General Psychology, and the oldest psychiatric journal in North America, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. EFT research includes investigators affiliated with many different institutions. In the US, these range from Harvard Medical School, to the University of California at Berkeley, to City University of New York, to Walter Reed Military Medical Center, to Texas A&M University, to JFK University. Institutions in other countries whose faculty have contributed to EFT research include Lund University (Sweden), Ankara University (Turkey), Santo Tomas University (Philippines), Lister Hospital (England), Cesar Vallejo University (Peru), and Griffith University (Australia). The wide variety of institutions, peer-reviewed journals, investigators, and settings that have, in independent research, found EFT to be efficacious, are one indication of the breadth of existing research results. The next frontier of EFT research is replication of the studies that have not yet been replicated, and investigations into the physiological changes that occur during EFT, using such tools as DNA microarrays (gene chips), MEGs (magnetoencephalograms), fMRIs, and neurotransmitter and hormone assays. The EFT Universe training and certification program is based on “Clinical EFT,” a consistent and reliable protocol supported by this extensive base of evidence and clinical practice.
Does Energy Psychology Alter Gene Expression? (PDF)
Successful Treatment of PTSD in APA Journal (PDF)
Eyesight Experiment (PDF)
New Moment in Science (PDF)
Brain Scans on Subjects with Generalized Anxiety Disorders (PDF)
Technical Evidence in the Connection between Emotions and Physical Ailments (PDF)
EFT on Psychological Symptoms (PDF)
Blood Cell Clumping Before and After Photos (PDF)
Optimal Vitamin and Mineral Levels With EFT Use (PDF)
Energy Psychology in Rehabilitation (PDF)
EFT for Brain Injury (PDF)
Evaluation of EFT on Phobia (PDF)
Randomized Trial on Fibromyalgia (PDF)
Treatment of Combat Trauma (PTSD) using EFT (PDF)
Energy Medicine in the United States: Historical Roots and the Current Status (PDF)
EFT Shown Effective in Tapping Away Food Cravings
Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology in Congressional Committee (PDF)
