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Empirically Supported Psychological Treatments: The Challenge of Evaluating Clinical Innovations

Church, D., Feinstein, D., Palmer-Hoffman, J., Stein, P., Tranguch, A. · Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease · 2014

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In plain English. This paper tackles a systemic problem: even when a therapy is proven to work, only about 3 in 10 ever make it into regular clinical use, and that process takes 17 years on average. The authors use EFT's own path toward acceptance as a case study and propose twelve specific changes to how psychology's official 'empirically supported treatment' standards are applied, aiming to shorten that translational gap. It's a policy and methodology argument rather than a report of a new patient outcome study.

What they found

The article reports that only about 30% of therapies cross the 'translational gap' from research to clinical availability, with an average lag of 17 years, and uses EFT's adoption history as a case study to propose twelve recommendations for updating APA Division 12 empirically-supported-treatment criteria.

How the study worked

Who took partclinical innovations / EFT as case study
What they didThis is a review or commentary synthesizing existing work rather than reporting a new trial.

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DesignReview
Populationclinical innovations / EFT as case study
JournalJournal of Nervous & Mental Disease
Year2014
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / tapping
Publication typeReview or meta-analysis
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Church, D., Feinstein, D., Palmer-Hoffman, J., Stein, P., & Tranguch, A. (2014). Empirically Supported Psychological Treatments: The Challenge of Evaluating Clinical Innovations. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000188

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE Multiple Conditions ✓ Review WHAT THEY FOUND The article reports that only about 30% oftherapies cross the 'translational gap' fromresearch to clinical… Review Church · 2014 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com