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Energy psychology: Efficacy, speed, mechanisms

Feinstein, D. · Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing · 2018

Review📚 100 studies reviewedPreliminary✓ Source-checked📍 United States
In plain English. This review takes on the biggest criticisms of tapping-based therapy head-on -- questions about whether it really works, whether it's really as fast as claimed, and how it could possibly work -- using more than 100 published outcome studies, including 51 randomized controlled trials, as the evidence base. It concludes tapping protocols produce fast, real benefits for anxiety, depression, and PTSD, and lays out possible mechanisms for why. Because this is a review pulling together many prior studies rather than a single new trial, it summarizes the field's evidence rather than reporting a fresh patient sample or effect size.

What they found

100
studies reviewed

Drawing on more than 100 peer-reviewed outcome studies, 51 of which were randomized controlled trials, the review concludes acupoint-based energy psychology protocols are rapid and effective for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and possibly other conditions, and proposes mechanisms for these outcomes.

How the study worked

Who took partReview of peer-reviewed outcome studies of acupoint-based energy psychology
What they didThis is a review or commentary synthesizing existing work rather than reporting a new trial.

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DesignReview
Participants100 studies pooled
PopulationReview of peer-reviewed outcome studies of acupoint-based energy psychology
JournalExplore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Year2018
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / tapping
Publication typeReview or meta-analysis
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Feinstein, D. (2018). Energy psychology: Efficacy, speed, mechanisms. Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2018.11.003

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE Multiple Conditions 100 studies pooled WHAT THEY FOUND Drawing on more than 100 peer-reviewedoutcome studies, 51 of which were randomizedcontrolled trials, the review… Review · 100 studies Feinstein · 2018 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com