Subconscious Restructuring® - The Only Evidence-Based Program Process
- How can Subconscious Restructuring® be the only evidence-based program process when mental health professionals claim there are many evidence-based program processes in psychology?
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.
- How can Subconscious Restructuring® be the only proven process for depression when mental health professionals claim there are many proven processes for depression?
Again 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.
The Difference Between Evidence-Based CBT or IPT & SR®
1) SR® is Not Guessing – There is a single question one must ask in regard to fully understanding human behavior and this is simply “What determines human behavior?” One cannot fix anything if one does not know how it works and one does not know how it works if one cannot answer this question. If one cannot clearly answer this question one is guessing. This question is not posed let alone addressed or answered in CBT or IPT. SR® begins with a clear definitive answer to this question.
2) What is Measured in CBT & IPT – Every CBT or IPT study is an exercise in experimental observational subjective evaluation. An outcome questionnaire has been in use for quite some time so CBT and IPT therapists can claim some sort of evidence-based procedure in treating their patients. This process is subject to occasional disastrous results because of the undefined random experimentation of techniques used. This is the result of continually guessing.
3) What is measured in SR® - The primary instrument and first measurement in SR® is the emotional state of the client with an 18 point questionnaire for adults and a 16 point questionnaire for ages 7-17. SR® considers Fear, Guilt and Anger to be the most potentially destructive emotional states so these three emotions are the initial focus of the program. The second measurement in SR® is The Behavior Control Checklist. This checklist measures whether the client fully understood the process of taking control of their subconscious. The third measurement in SR® is a relationship satisfaction scale. This instrument measures how the client gets along with the most important people in their lives.
4) What is Studied in CBT & IPT – All so called evidence-based studies in CBT and IPT are based on external events and how the study participant responds to those events or how severely they may have been traumatized. The level of trauma experienced by any individual is purely a subjective assessment because everyone’s perception of their life events is different. This makes this first observational assessment almost perfectly flawed. When you add the variables of gender, race, socioeconomic background, age, and geographic location one has assured oneself of a perfectly convoluted study that has no real meaning and is almost impossible to interpret except for the most specific of parameters.
5) What is Studied in SR® - SR® does not care about gender, race, socioeconomic background, age, geographic location or any other external variable. The focus of SR® is on how each individual processes every event in their life from the deepest level of the subconscious. There is a consistent subconscious process everyone must go through in order to bring about an emotional state which in turn will equal a behavior. If you do not start out with measuring one’s emotional state you simply have nowhere to go. You can find our studies by going to SR® Studies.
6) Studies for CBT & IPT – The largest, longest and most comprehensive study ever done to evaluate depression treatment was called Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression or STAR*D. The purpose of this trial was to determine the effectiveness of different treatments for people with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) who have not responded to initial treatment with an antidepressant. The question here is if there are so many evidence-based processes in behavioral health for depression why would a study need to be done to try to find out why there are so many people who do not respond to treatment or why medication is even necessary to begin with? At the end of their FAQ on the NIMH site they stated that “It is equally important to note, however, that even with optimal assessment approaches and optimal medication dosing, about two-thirds of people with MDD in this study did not achieve remission of depressive symptoms with this first treatment.”
7) Studies for SR® - SR® has generated data on its effectiveness since its introduction into psychiatric care in 1990. Everyone who has taken the time to go through the process of SR® has significantly improved. In contrast to the NIMH study the more severe the depression the more significant the improvement with the use of SR®.
Conclusion – Anytime a psychologist or psychotherapist states there are many or even hundreds of proven processes for depression simply ask them to please direct you to one. This will guarantee you will never hear from them again.
- How is data generated when someone goes through the process of SR®?
Hard data is generated from the client only.
- How is data generated when someone goes through the process of CBT or IPT?
There are no standards for this so it could be from the investigator or the client.
- Why isn’t SR® listed at NIMH? (National Institute of Mental Health)
The SR® Institute. has been doing battle with NIMH since our first study in 1992. They will not recognize SR® because it does not conform to the severely broken CBT model they are used to seeing.
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 that does not believe depression is a strong risk factor for suicide?
- Why isn’t SR® published in any peer review journals?
Similar issues arise as with NIMH. We do not conform to the experimental observational subjective studies that follow the CBT model so publication has always been a problem.
- What about accountability of CBT, IPT and SR®?
There is no accountability in the mental health industry. This includes but is not limited to CBT and IPT.
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 and NIMH nor anyone in the mental health industry understands how it works.