Evidence-Based Approaches Used
Evidence-Based Neuroscience & Approaches
At Loves Hidden Policy we feel it is important to use evidence-based approaches when working with personal clients, couples, families and children. The evidence-based approaches we use are listed below.
Affective Neuroscience
Affective Neuroscience is the interdisciplinary study of the neural and biological mechanisms underlying emotions, moods, and feelings pioneered by Jaak Panksepp.
Tony Vernon, HWC, NMC, AMC, AMM met Jaak Penksepp in London in 2012 and began vivaciously learning from Jaak and his pioneering work in Affective Neuroscience at that time. Tragically, Jaak passed away in 2017, but he is still revered in neuroscience for his groundbreaking work on:
The Biological Roots of Emotion
Applications to Human Mental Health
Affective Neuroscience
Today, when clinically helping couples to Succeed with Love, Tony often teaches and makes Jaak’s work simple and easy to understand for the benefit of couples - so they can Succeed with Love.
The field of Affective Neuroscience investigates how emotional processes interact with and influence cognitive functions such as memory, attention, and decision-making. By helping couples to understand basic affective neuroscience, and how this affects a loving relationship, Tony is able to help couples to Succeed with Love.
Coaching
Coaching was born as a result of great advances in psychotherapy and counseling. It began as a profession only in the 1980s when Thomas Leonard, an American financial planner developed his career with a then relatively unheard of term ‘Life Coach’. Thomas started the very first school to train Professional Life Coaches in 1992. This was even before Tony Robbins launched his career as a ‘Peak Performance Coach’ in 1988 with his first Infomercial, Personal Power. in 1994 Thomas Leonard founded the International Coach Federation (ICF) to protect the industry and improve credibility. There are now an estimated 30,000+ trained coaches worldwide.
The data and a meta-analysis now fully supports coaching – it is now confirmed as an evidence-based proven approach alongside all of the helping professions. This is because the relationship is key to the success of working with another. Be this personal coaching, therapy, counseling or psychotherapy or couples work: couples coaching, couples therapy, marriage counseling or family work: family coaching, family therapy or working with a child psychologist or on the parent-child relationship or coaching to support children: the relationship is key. Read or download the meta-analysis.
Results revealed no differences regarding the type of clients, coaches’ expertise, number of coaching sessions, and clients’ or coaches’ perspectives. Similar to other helping relationships like counseling, therapy, psychotherapy or mentoring, the results support the importance of a high-quality working alliance in coaching.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Eye Movement Integration (EMI)
EMDR is an evidence-based approach to be used alongside psychotherapy, therapy, counseling or coaching which has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a first-choice treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD; WHO, 2013).
Numerous controlled studies show that EMDR produces more improvement than absence of treatment, for alleviating the symptoms of PTSD, and for anxiety-related disorders or challenges.
One study that is particularly noteworthy is The Role of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy in Medicine: Addressing the Psychological and Physical Symptoms Stemming from Adverse Life Experiences as this addresses the needs of The Ace study because adverse childhood experiences are common and they have strong long-term associations with adult health risk behaviors, health status, and diseases. Indeed, most adult stress-related issues brought to psychotherapy, therapy, counseling or coaching sessions are often related to childhood adverse experiences, coming up and being in need of attention.
We use EMDR in sessions with clients as it is an evidence-based approach and very effective at painlessly releasing unresolved emotions, quickly and easily.
Eye Movement Integration (EMI) is a neurotherapuetic technique used to treat trauma, anxiety, and phobias. it EMI differs in its focus to EMDR. EMI concentrates on integrating traumatic memories, whereas EMDR emphasizes desensitization. EMI practitioners also emphasize that the method does not require clients to relive the trauma as intensely as EMDR can.
Dyadic Developmental Parenting
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With the advances in technology and children spending so much time with electronic devices, the race is on to develop greater parenting skills alongside technology. We need a new parenting model for the modern, technological environment.
When children feel alone, scared, overwhelmed, abandoned, hurt or even hungry early in their life, and if we miss these needs as parents due to our own life demands and challenges, the child will have no choice but to find ways or adaptive behavior to help them get through these times by relying on themselves.
The signs and outcomes of these ways of thinking, feeling and behaving are seen later when children are older as outward concerning behaviors. The emotional upset is usually played out in the early years, and this is the opportunity to intervene with DDP when the child’s outward behavior seems to be saying that they don’t want or need their parents, or won’t allow their parents to love them.
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Dyadic Developmental Practice is an all encompassing approach that includes working with the parents, and the child, so develops the parent-child relationship. The approach also promotes caring for children as well as the therapeutic aspect. It also looks at the structure of support and team around the child, beyond the parents, to ensure greater security of the child’s inner world is developed. This all encompassing approach helps the parents, caregivers and any professionals involved understand, and work together to be effective in their support of children and their families.
Dyadic Development Psychotherapy (DDP)
DDP is based on and brings together the latest understandings in attachment theory, what we understand about developmental trauma, the neurobiology of trauma and relationships, caregiving, intersubjectivity and the latest evidence-based understandings in child development that impact us as adults.
All professionals supporting couples, families and children need a model that is evidence-based and too uses selected evidence-based work to underpin their approach and that brings together knowledge about developmental trauma, attachment and interpersonal neurobiology.
