:: SR® Counseling Life Coaching Evidence-Based FAQ
SR® Counseling Coaching Evidence-Based FAQ
What proof is there SR® Counseling Life Coaching is evidence-based?
If you look up “Evidence-Based Program Process” on Google you will only find one result. Be sure to include the quotes as this will eliminate the pharmaceutical sites. Mental health professionals are not required to produce documented results as is everyone certified in the SR® process. This conditions some of them to make statements that are blatantly false without ever feeling the need to back up their statements with hard data. All who are certified in the SR® process are required to back up any statement they make in regard to behavior change with hard data.
What evidence is there SR® Counseling Life Coaching is proven effective for depression?
If you look up “Proven Process for Depression” on Google you will only find one result. Be sure to include the quotes here also as this will eliminate the pharmaceutical sites. To make this absolutely clear when we state “Program Process” this means exactly what it says. There are no medications used in conjunction with the process.
When the term “Evidence-Based” is used in behavioral health three key questions (KQ's) must be answered.
KQ1. What is measured?
KQ2. Why is it measured?
KQ3. How is the data generated?
What does SR® Counseling Life Coaching Measure?
Emotional Checklist: The 12 point Emotional Checklist consists of a full range of human emotion and issues to collectively indicate a depressed state. There are also individual questions within the Emotional Checklist which address specific issues. The first three questions indicate anxiety, negative self-talk and anger levels. These are the first three issues addressed through the initial four hour seven step process. Question 4 addresses sleep, question 9 is in regard to eating behavior and question 12 is in regard to suicidal ideation.
Behavior Control Checklist: The 5 point Behavior Control Checklist enables the client to grade the counselor in regard to delivery of information and the clients’ ability to fully comprehend the process. The counselor is then able to address those issues if the numbers did not adequately come up.
Relationship Satisfaction Scale: The 5 point Relationship Satisfaction Scale addresses how the client relates to people they are closest to in their lives. The Relationship Satisfaction Scale measures how one communicates with people closest to them and how satisfied they are with those relationships.
Why is it measured?
Depression: Major Depressive Disorder is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15-44.(3) Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed class of medications in the United States with over 27 million effected over the age of six.(4)
Anxiety: Approximately 40 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 18.1 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have an anxiety disorder.(5) Anxiety disorders frequently co-occur with depressive disorders or substance abuse.(5) Most people with one anxiety disorder also have another anxiety disorder. Nearly three-quarters of those with an anxiety disorder will have their first episode by age 21.(6)
Negative Self Talk: Depressed groups endorse significantly more negative self-talk and evidenced a significantly less-frequent occurrence of positive self-talk.(7) The first component the subconscious uses to bring about an emotional state and behavior is internal dialogue and this is the first process to be interrupted, restructured and reprogrammed with the SR® process.
Anger: Anger and hostility are linked to coronary heart disease in both healthy and CHD populations.(8)
Sleep: A chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue, daytime sleepiness, clumsiness and weight loss or weight gain.(9) Sleep deprivation adversely affects the brain and cognitive function.(10) Eating Behavior: Physiological changes as a result of disordered eating can effect psychology(11) and in turn the psychology which brings about disordered eating effects the physiology.(12)
Suicidal Ideation: Suicidal ideation has been linked to hopelessness(13) and anxiety14 both of which are measured in the Emotional Checklist and numbers which are monitored. Question 12 is a straight forward indicator of suicidal ideation and many times closely correlate with question 1 (anxiety) and question 5 (hopelessness). The risk of suicide attempts among the PTSD population is six times greater than in the general population.(15)
How is SR® Counseling Life Coaching Data Generated?
Data is generated from the client only.
What about SR® Counseling Life Coahing Accountability?
Everyone who is certified in the process of SR® is trained to be accountable with the infrastructure for data collection and study. With the use of SR®, medication is the exception not the rule. Once again you cannot fix it (the subconscious) if you do not know how it works.
Why isn’t SR® Counseling Life Coaching listed at NIMH? (National Institute of Mental Health)
In 1992 data from our first study was presented to NIMH and APA. It was rejected without reason.
In 2009 a proposal for a resolution to suicidality and the Army was blocked from scientific review by NIMH. When asked why it was blocked the main reason given by NIMH was in regard to depression and suicide. NIMH stated “It is not what we consider a strong risk factor.”
Our primary instrument of measurement is a depression checklist and we will not back away from our position in regard to this. How much credibility can you put in an entity which does not believe depression is a strong risk factor for suicide?
References
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5. Kessler RC, Chiu WT, Demler O, Walters EE. Prevalence, severity, and comorbidity of twelve-month DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R). Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005 Jun;62(6):617-27.
6. Kessler RC, Berglund PA, Demler O, Jin R, Walters EE. Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R). Archives of General Psychiatry. 2005 Jun;62(6):593-602.
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