"We KNOW that the vast majority of af-x® Therapy clients experience long-term, positive results"
These days, there are many claims of success coming from a wide variety of therapies and different treatment methods. What clients say during and straight after the therapy, or the opinions and observations of the client by the therapist, are often exactly what these claims are based on.
Although they may have said a therapy was successful at the time, later on, many people find that they've slipped back into their "old ways" or that their relief was only temporary. Also, when therapists use their opinions and observations to judge success, sometimes their "expert" judgement can be very wrong. The client may be tired of never-ending sessions, or it may be costing too much, or they might want to be seen to be doing the right thing, so the client may just say what they think the therapist wants to hear.
What a client says about results and what a therapist may think can often be very inaccurate, but in many cases, both these things can satisfy the therapist enough to claim that another client's treatment has been successful.
From the conventional psychotherapies through to the so-called
"new age" treatments, none that we know of, are able to consistently
show the success of their work through ongoing research the way
affectology and af-x® Therapy does.
This is done through what is called the efficacy study research
system (ESR). It involves brief questionnaires being sent out
to participating clients well after the completion of their third
session. These ex-clients can then take a little time to really
assess what sort of results they've experienced from the therapy,
in the privacy of their own home. Completed questionnaires are
not returned to af-x Practitioners but to the National
AF-X Research Organisation (N.A.R.O.) in Sydney to ensure the
feedback remains confidential and the client anonymous.
This ESR system is particularly important to af-x Practitioners.
Mainly because they don't pressure clients for immediate feedback
during their sessions and know that they can't possibly judge
the level of future success that any individual client will experience.
So, a client feedback system that is much more accurate anyway
fits in well with the need to maintain client privacy both during
and after the therapy sessions.
For many years the ESR system has been used to monitor the professional
standards of af-x Practitioners and the overall effectiveness
of af-x Therapy. But more importantly, through more honest
and accurate feedback, it is consistently proving that the vast
majority of af-x Therapy clients report success and experience
long-term positive results.
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