Research Papers

Research Results

The following links offer thoughtful opinions, analysis and research studies that underscore the strong, lasting results of the HQP. We believe that scientific study is an important responsibility in accounting for the benefits offered to the public by the HQP. Research findings also have assisted us in strengthening and extending the value of our approach to helping people change recurrent unwanted patterns in their lifestyles.

University of California Grant Research Study (2003)

Professors Michael R. Levenson and Carolyn M. Aldwin of the University of California at Davis presented the findings of their three-year, grant* research study on the Hoffman Process in the Nov/ Dec 2006 issue of the scientific peer review journal, EXPLORE, The Journal of Science and Healing.

	This University peer review research shows that Hoffman Process participants experienced lasting significant reductions in depression, anxiety and obsessive/compulsive tendencies, coupled with lasting significant increases in emotional intelligence, life satisfaction, compassion, vitality and forgiveness. A world-wide search of the research literature shows that no other treatments or interventions that produces lasting, significant reductions in negative affects, while simultaneously producing such increases in positive affects.
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According to Ron Meister, Ph.D., an Administrative Research Director, “These research findings indicate that the overall changes available to a Hoffman Process participant are, by any standard, quite remarkable.”

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*”Grant” research means that the University owns the data, and researchers are expected to publish their findings whatever the outcome.

 

The Caldwell Report (1983-1985)

A comprehensive scientific research study was conducted by Alex B. Caldwell, Ph.D., and Curtis S. Hileman, Ph.D., on 58 participants of the Process from 1983 to 1985. It should be noted that at the time of this study, the format of the Process was rather different from what it is today (two 3-hour sessions per week for 13 weeks versus the present eight-day residential intensive). The content, however, was essentially the same as what is offered today. (Of course, there have been numerous refinements and improvements in the past 20 years.)
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The Candate Study (1991)

A study involving 31 individuals was conducted by Alison Candate, M.F.C.C. Rather than measuring personal change, Candate’s research study was directed at clients’ self-reported perceptions of change and value. The Candate Study statistically reflects the responses and reactions that people have to participating in the Hoffman Quadrinity Process.
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Windhausen Comparative Study (1995-1997)

From 1995–1997, the German psychologist Christiane Windhausen engaged in a comparative study of the results of group therapy in a hospital setting with the 8-day HQP. Using a number of psychological tests, it was demonstrated that significant, lasting positive changes of the Quadrinity Process participants were much stronger than the changes in the participants in the 3-month group hospital program.
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