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Comparing the REMAP Pilot Study to Other Studies and
Methods
The 1995 Active Ingredients Study at Florida State
University by Charles Figley, Ph.D.
The research that made me decide to work
with the acupressure-enhanced forms of psychotherapy was
the one conducted by Charles Figley, Ph.D., of Florida
State University (FSU) in 1995. In that study, the
researchers invited the developers of four new,
leading-edge treatment methods that were reported to
produce more effective and rapid treatment with
traumatic incidents, to demonstrate their approaches in
a comparative study. Dr. Figley who publishes
“Traumatology”, an electronic journal on prevention and
treatment of PTSD, was interested in seeing how these
approaches would perform in a research setting. Their
results were published in
TRAUMATOLOGYe,
5:1, Article 4, 1999 under the title,
“Running
ahead: PROMISING PTSD TREATMENT APPROACHES--A
Systematic Clinical Demonstration of Promising PTSD
Treatment Approaches”
by Joyce L.
Carbonell and
Charles
Figley.
I was particularly interested in his
findings with regard to how
TIR and
TFT (the first widely used acupressure-based
psychotherapy) compared to
EMDR and to
NLP, two treatments that I had already been trained
in. The results were encouraging and lead me to study
both TIR and TFT.
Dr. Figley’s study
is the closest in similarity to the
REMAP Pilot study. Both involved small sample sizes
and utilized Wolpe’s Subjective Units of Disturbance
Scale (SUD scale) as one measure of the response to
treatment. Both of the studies also focused on treating
traumatic events.
Following the Florida
State
University findings in the graph below, you will find
the comparable results from the REMAP pilot study. The
chart shows the SUD results for both studies, the length
of treatment in minutes and the percent reduction of
distress.
This chart displays results on a
Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale
(0-------------10). On this scale 0 equals no distress
and 10 equals the worst distress.
Figley
Study at
Florida
State
University 1995 vs. REMAP
Pilot 2006
|
Tx Method |
TIR |
NLP |
EMDR |
TFT |
REMAP |
Disturbance level
Before Tx
|
6.5 |
4.75 |
5.0 |
6.3 |
9.437 |
Disturbance level
After Tx
|
3.4 |
5.25 |
2.0 |
3.0 |
1.187 |
|
Total Reduction
in Disturbance
|
3.1 |
-0.50 |
3.0 |
3.3 |
8.25 |
|
Total Tx Time
in Minutes |
254 min. |
113 min. |
173 min. |
63
min. |
77.5 min.
|
|
Percent Improvement
|
47.69% |
-10.52% |
60% |
52.38% |
87.42% |
|
Type of Tx |
Exposure model |
Cognitive model |
SSDR model |
SSDR model |
SSDR model |
Abbreviations: Tx =
Treatment
SSDR = Sensory
Stimulation—Desensitization Response
TIR = Traumatic
Incident Reduction Therapy
NLP =
Neuro-linguistic Programming
(visual/kinesthetic
disassociation technique)
EMDR = Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
TFT = Thought Field
Therapy
Steve B. Reed, LPC, LMSW, LMFT is
a psychotherapist and energy psychology innovator who has
developed the REMAP process. Steve provides training in
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in office and by telephone.
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Neurophysiological Indicators of
EFT Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress, a study by Paul G.
Swingle, Ph.D.; Lee Pulos, Ph.D. & Mari K. Swingle, M.A.
This
EFT study was first presented at the International Energy
Psychology Conference in 2000 and then published in 2004. It is
also close in similarity to the REMAP Pilot study in several
ways. Here again, both involved small sample sizes and utilized
Wolpe’s Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale (SUD scale) as one
measure of the response to treatment. Both of these studies
also focused on treating traumatic events. This study was
published in the Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine Journal,
Volume 15, No. 1, 2004 under the title “Experimental:
Neurophysiological Indicators of EFT Treatment of Post-Traumatic
Stress” by Paul G. Swingle, Ph.D.; Lee Pulos, Ph.D. & Mari
K. Swingle, M.A.
The SUD scale originally used in this study was a 1 to 10 scale
(10 point). Below, I have converted their results to a 0 to 10
version (11 point scale) for ease of comparison.
The following graph shows the comparable results from the
Swingle et al. (2004) study and the
REMAP pilot study (2006). The chart shows the SUD results
for both studies, the average number of treatment sessions and
the percent reduction of distress.
This chart displays results on an 11 Point Subjective Units of
Disturbance Scale (0-------------10).
Swingle, Pulos & Swingle EFT Study 2004
vs. REMAP Pilot 2006
|
Tx Method |
EFT |
REMAP |
Disturbance level
Before Tx
|
9.13 |
9.437 |
Disturbance level
After
Tx
|
2.75 |
1.187 |
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Total
Reduction
in
Disturbance
|
6.38 |
8.25 |
|
Average Number
of Tx Sessions |
2 |
2
|
|
Percent Improvement
|
69.87% |
87.42% |
|
Type of Tx |
SSDR
model |
SSDR
model |
Abbreviations:
Tx = Treatment
SSDR =
Sensory Stimulation—Desensitization Response
EFT =
Emotional Freedom Techniques
REMAP =
Reed Eye Movement Acupressure Psychotherapy
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