Research

There have been two Randomized Clinical Trials (RCTs) of OEI with PTSD. The first of these involved a group of mixed trauma survivors, randomly assigned to either a treatment or delayed treatment control group. Traumas included: Holding a spouse after suicide by gunshot, cutting down the body of someone who had hung himself (known to the survivor), experiencing a violent rape, being the victim of an attempted homicide, waking to see a close friend dead of a drug overdose, and motor vehicle accidents. OEI treatment involved only three one-hour sessions of OEI, using only one of the OEI techniques ('switching').

The most recent RCT was a mixed method, comparative experimental treatment outcome study. It involved 25 women with PTSD following sexual assaults, spanned 18 months, and included qEEG assessments with script-driven symptom provocation on three occasions. The details of this study are provided in the first research report down the margin to the left. A list of OEI publications to date (including theses and conference papers) is included in that summary.

 

Audrey Cook

Audrey Cook

is a marriage and family therapist, with an academic background in Criminology.   Her interest was in sexual offences and deviance, stress management and burnout prevention.  She worked in Adult Education for Family Services in B.C. and for a number of local colleges.  For the past twenty years, she has worked in her therapy practice, which combines family work and intensive trauma work.  Her clients are typically Aboriginal Canadians and she works extensively with multigenerational trauma.

Dr. Bradshaw

Dr. Rick Bradshaw

received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.  Until 1998 he had been employed for 10 years as the Senior Psychologist & Director of Training in the Counselling Service of Simon Fraser University.  He left SFU to work for three years as a consulting psychologist with Wilson Banwell Corporate Health Consultants.   He left to join the Counselling Psychology Department at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C. as Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology where he teaches graduate studies and supervises research projects.

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