Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Relief Study
The basics about this valuable study and how you can participate?
Military personnel, active duty, reserves or discharged, experiencing significant signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are invited to participate, at no cost, in a controlled trial of a bio-energetic therapeutic modality, that has been shown to be fast, comfortable, and permanent. The PTSD does not have to have been combat induced.
Recent news accounts have documented tremendous numbers of troops returning from the Iraq Theater suffering from PTSD. Additionally the war coverage has caused PTSD symptoms to surface in veterans who served in previous wars. Conventional talk therapy can take years and have mixed results. Medications often only numb the pain, without resolving the problems. The Veterans Administration is becoming overwhelmed. It is difficult to get appointments and getting harder.
Methods such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), hypnotherapy, and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) have anecdotally been shown to be very effective. This clinical study is designed to more accurately document the validity of these modalities.
Following a preliminary interview and diagnostic test, those selected will receive specifically designed clinical sessions to completely resolve PTSD symptoms. There will be no cost whatsoever for participants. Only a limited number of participants will be accepted.
My goal is to document a particular blend of fast, comfortable, and lasting protocols that will reduce or even eliminate many of the problems of PTSD. These methods are outside the standard psychotherapy or psycho-pharmacological medical paradigms.
I trust this academic approach will yield practicable and useful insights, documentation, and protocols that will help individuals, councilors, licensed professionals, as well as veterans' friends and families get major fast and permanent relief from the problems of PTSD.
Everything will be held in strict confidence. As part of the paper work, I will give you a formal, signed, one way, confidentiality agreement. You will be participating as an individual, not part of a group.
It will be necessary to visit my Rio Rancho office 3 times and participate in a concluding telephone interview.
The first appointment will take about an hour and involve getting paperwork and introductions completed.
You will be asked to complete a short, statistically valid, standardized pen and pencil test to determine you meet the criteria required by the testing protocol and establish a baseline. We'll review your history, answer any questions, and give you a little demonstration of the effectiveness of one of the techniques we'll be using. If you qualify and want to continue, we'll complete the paperwork and set an appointment for the actual time when we will do the change-work session.
The second appointment will last approximately three hours. During that time, the techniques that are being officially tested will be used. These procedures are not truly experimental, in that literally thousands of other practitioners as well as I have been successfully using them for several years. BUT they have not been documented in a controlled manner for treating PTSD. And that is my intention - to demonstrate in manner that can be replicated - the benefits ex-combat troops experiencing PTSD can achieve.
EFT will provide the basis of the work we will be analyzing.
The procedures I'll be using are typically comfortable, completely safe, and permanent. They include a blend of bio-energetic, linguistic, and hypnotic methods.
The third meeting will last about an hour. The purpose will to get your feed-back on experiences, feelings, and changes you discovered.
Approximately 90 days after the change-work session, there will be a telephone follow-up and you will be asked to complete a short questionnaire. At this time, if you desire, you will be offered the opportunity to arrange for 2 additional sessions at absolutely no charge. These 2 sessions will not be associated with the statistical results of the study, and do not need to be related to PTSD.
We think that by removing the negative emotions from the MAJOR traumatic event that contributed to the PTSD, the effect will generalize and reduce MANY of the symptoms of PTSD.
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Positive Human Dynamics, LTD
1453 Rio Rancho Blvd., Ste. E
Rio Rancho, NM 87124
(505)892-1313 www.posihd.com