Ongoing research
All human givens practitioners are encouraged by the college and their professional body, the Human Givens Institute (HGI), to work in an outcome-informed way and the results to-date are very promising.
The Institute is running an ongoing national study through its Research Practice Network (HGIPRN). This is gathering real life, practice-based information about clinical outcomes in a variety of settings. Core data collected on over 3,000 patients to-date, and submitted by over 70 different therapists, shows human givens therapy to be reliably effective for the majority of patients in only a small number of sessions.
The data collected is of a higher quality than many research projects, as clients are tracked throughout their therapy (ie at every single session) and data of the clients who drop out of therapy is also included.
Newly published research: >> British Psychological Society publishes research showing
the Piloting a practice research network: A 12-month evaluation of the Human Givens approach in primary care at a general medical practice has been published in The British Psychological Society’s peer reviewed publication: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. The paper’s conclusion supports the massive amount of anecdotal evidence and data sets on thousands of patients now gathered by human givens therapists in the UK and Ireland. This is good news for all those facing critics who, without looking directly at actual examples of effectiveness, say there is no evidence for the human givens holistic approach to mental health because it has not appeared in a peer reviewed journal. Typical of the conclusions in the paper are, “The HG approach is informed by NICE guidelines and the evidence upon which they are based … the approach is a bona fide treatment that significantly contributes to assisting service users in primary care to move towards recovery.” “Pre- to post-treatment changes measured with the CORE-OM and CORE-10 suggested that the therapy was highly effective.” And, “The HG approach is an effective treatment for working with service users presenting with a variety of problems, and particularly anxiety and depression, in primary care settings.” Much of the funding for this research project was raised and donated by the HG Foundation. The papers authors were, William Andrews, Elspeth Twigg, Takuya Minami and Gina Johnson, the GP whose initiative and enthusiasm triggered the research project with the three Human Givens therapists, Mary Marshall, Jane Newson-Smith and Jan Sherlock. Thanks should go to all these people and also to Sam Desborough, the project’s very competent administrator, and the funders: Steel Charitable Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Human Givens Foundation. Some of Gina’s time was also supported by the National Institute for Health Research Flexibility and Sustainability Funding. If you would like to receive a copy of the paper please email Bill Andrews at wandrews22@mac.com |
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'Human Givens: the evidence so far'
(click the above link to read an article published at the end of 2009)
>> Click here for more information about other ongoing HG research projects
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Further examples of how the human givens approach is improving outcomes and cost-effectiveness include:
- Schools, colleges and residential therapeutic communities where the staff have thoroughly absorbed their human givens training see dramatically improved performance, mental health rates and OFSTED reports (read example)
- One of the UK’s largest providers of income protection policies regularly uses human givens therapists to help people back to work because of the significant savings in payouts and reserves it brings them
- Our graduates treat sufferers from PTSD effectively and swiftly – usually in only a couple of sessions
- Hartlepool MIND, whose staff were all trained
in the human givens approach, are now able to
successfully treat over 10 times more people each year (suffering a wide range of severe,
hard-to-treat conditions) than previously.
There are many more case histories and examples in the book 'An idea in practice: using the human givens approach' which was shortlisted for MIND's Book of The Year award in 2008.
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