The Evaluation of Psychotherapies: Implications From the Criteria of the Paradigm of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
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pshchotherapy, evaluation, research, assessment, humanistic psychotherapiesAbstract
The managers of the public mental health care system argue the need for the benefits provided by public budgets to be effective and efficient, which seems understandable. They rely on the evidence provided by Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Based Psychology. However, the evidence system was initially created to facilitate decision making by psychotherapists in individual cases as a complement to their clinical expertise. Evidence lists in psychotherapy could be misused for the purpose of including or excluding a treatment in public care. It should be remembered that the results of the current evidence list should not be considered as definitive and that they should be used with caution without considering that the techniques that have no evidence for the moment are ineffective or useless.
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