Creating Calm - EFT

05/09/2025

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27/09/2024

Early today I shared about how teens cope and what impact their different teachers have on their life.

Our Australian non-randomised controlled clinical trial investigated group EFT (tapping) within two high schools. The trial aimed to increase student self-esteem and resilience, and decrease their fear of failure and emotional difficulties in high achieving academic streams. The students all received 5 weekly sessions of 75 minutes each, during normal school hours and a booster session one year later. The facilitators were a registered clinical psychologist and a psychotherapist and both were qualified EFT practitioners.

The largest statistically significant change was from pre-test to 12-month follow-up. Fear of failure was the most significantly affected variable, and students indicated in their survey a year later (compared to when they started the trial) that this was the most impacted area in their lives (a statistical difference indicates the results are not due to chance). Potential improvements in student functioning, ease of teaching EFT, and cost-effectiveness suggest that further research is warranted but EFT may offer students significant benefits with low risks and time demands, at relatively low economic cost to schools.

Does you teen tap? 🙃

30/08/2024

Sprinkle that stuff around like confetti

07/08/2024

05/08/2024

Useful tip

Add humming to your list of coping tools! https://www.theottoolbox.com/sensory-coping-strategies-for-kids/

04/07/2024

Several independent studies of treatment for PTSD have shown body based interventions (EMDR and EFT/somatic therapies) out perform the cognitive approaches.