APA Updates Its Position on Energy Psychology
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In September 1999, the American Psychological Association (APA) notified its 600 (at the time) Continuing Education (CE) sponsors that they may not offer APA CE credit to psychologists for courses on Thought Field Therapy (Murray, 1999). The controversial ruling, which was applied to all courses that purportedly influence the body’s “energy fields” by stimulating acupuncture points or using related techniques (these approaches are collectively known as “energy psychology” and include the popular Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT), has been challenged multiple times. Established APA CE sponsors as well as organizations that had unsuccessfully applied to offer energy psychology courses as APA CE sponsors were unable to persuade the APA that the approach was worthy of study by psychologists.
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