Talk:Psychosensory therapy

Andrew Leslie, Emma Lucas, and Taylor York's peer review

Edits are included in your copied article below:

"Psychosensory therapy is a form of therapeutic treatment that uses sensory stimuli (i.e., touch, sight, sound, taste, smell) to impact psychological and emotional health (Ruden, 2010). Psychosensory therapy combines **removed passive voice ** a group of therapeutic techniques that apply sensory inputs to treat various behaviors, moods, thoughts, and symptoms**pain is a symptom. It might be better to make a sub-heading each for thoughts, moods and symptoms, and elaborate on which techniques have been reported to help in each area.** (Ruden, 2005). Psychosensory therapy is rooted in **simplified wording** traditional chinese medicine and energy psychology (Bakker, 2013; Mollen 2007). Some important figures in psychosensory therapy include: Chiropractor, Dr. George Goodheart; Psychiatrist, Dr. John Diamond; and Clinical Psychologists, Dr. Roger Callahan and Dr. Ronald Ruden (Mollen, 2007; Ruden, 2007)**edited list format for clarity**. Some of the common techniques used in psychosensory therapy include Havening Techniques (Cousins, 2011), Emotional Freedom Techniques (Stapleton et al., 2016), Callahan Technique-Thought Field Therapy (Callahan, 1985), and Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. According to both American Psychiatric Association (2016) and Stapleton and colleagues (2016), these techniques are effective for treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Depression, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder." **reworded for simplicity and clarity; can you say that all of the therapies you listed above are supported by both APA and Stapleton et al.? If not, i would combine the last two paragraphs and provide the citation which supports the treatment for each disorder following that treatment.**

Other suggestions for your article include:

• Add definitions for more clinical terms (like you did with sensory stimuli).
• Expand topics and add headers for different topics.
• Talk about each type of technique separately?
• Split up last statement into separate sentences.
• It could be helpful to provide some more information about the theories that support psychosensory therapy models.
• Are there empirical articles that describe treatment outcomes for psychosensory therapy?
• You may want to break down into sections the different types of psychosensory therapies and discuss theory, background, current state, and treatment outcomes.
• Are specific techniques better for certain diagnoses? Why?

Emmallucas (talk) 02:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)