Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): Updates to the Science and the Evidence

In this course, Dr. Peta Stapleton, clinical and health psychologist, Professor at Bond University, updates you on the fast-accumulating evidence for the effectiveness of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), a stress management tool also known as tapping or psychological acupuncture. Stapleton examines how the burgeoning research base shows EFT’s effectiveness with an ever-broadening array of populations, from veterans to athletes to health care workers. The good news is that EFT typically requires far fewer hours of therapeutic input than other therapies (such as CBT and other talk therapies) and its benefits are maintained well at follow-up measurements. She outlines the various modes of delivery of EFT which have been shown to be effective, shows brain scans from before and after EFT, and discusses why EFT is able to work so fast, with no adverse effects.