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EFT as a Tool to Resolve Anxiety: A Case Study Approach

Pandey, N. · International Journal of Psycho-Social Research · 2020

Case series👥 1 participantsPreliminary✓ Source-checked📍 India
In plain English. One person carrying serious anxiety about authority figures and performing under pressure, traced back to a specific hurtful memory, worked through it with a tapping therapist and watched their self-rated distress fall session by session. It's a single case study with no comparison group, so it illustrates how tapping can be used therapeutically rather than proving the approach works broadly.

What they found

1
people took part

In a single-case EFT treatment, a client's high anxiety — linked to a specific traumatic memory involving anger, performance anxiety, and fear of authority — reduced across sessions as tracked on the SUD scale, with the case used to illustrate how tapping on a root traumatic event can generalize to broader anxious patterns.

How the study worked

Who took parta single client with a high level of anxiety traced to performance anxiety and fear of authority rooted in an earlier traumatic event (n=1)
What they didThis is a detailed report following a small number of individual cases through tapping.
Measured withSubjective Units of Discomfort (SUD) scale

The full record

DesignCase series
Participants1 people
Populationa single client with a high level of anxiety traced to performance anxiety and fear of authority rooted in an earlier traumatic event
Outcome measuresSubjective Units of Discomfort (SUD) scale
JournalInternational Journal of Psycho-Social Research
Year2020
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / tapping
Publication typeCase report
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Pandey, N. (2020). EFT as a Tool to Resolve Anxiety: A Case Study Approach. International Journal of Psycho-Social Research.

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE Anxiety 1 participants WHAT THEY FOUND In a single-case EFT treatment, a client'shigh anxiety — linked to a specifictraumatic memory involving anger… Case series · 1 participants Pandey · 2020 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com