Evidence-Based Psychological Practices and Therapist Training

At the Crossroads

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9022016
AutoresGerald John Mozdzierz (Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA), Paul R Peluso (0000-0002-9741-5805, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA), Joseph Lisiecki (Orland Park, IL, USA)
Ano2010
Volume51
Fascículo4
Páginas439-464
Data de publicação2010-11-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022167810386959
OpenAlexW2021652613
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas38

Fundamentally, counseling and therapies of all species are intimate, humanistic encounters between sufferers and healers. A variety of societal impingements on practitioners (e.g., the need to contain burgeoning health care costs via “sustainable growth rates,” limitations on the number of treatment sessions authorized by managed care companies, increasing government regulations, ethical standards, hundreds of “schools” of psychotherapy espousing efficacy) and a growing body of supportive research have resulted in an increased attention to and demand for the use of evidence-based psychological practices that can potentially undermine the fundamental underpinnings of counseling and psychotherapy. This article proposes that care and caution need to be exercised in the rush to evidence-based psychological practices as a “solution” to the concerns noted. In turn, what is advocated in helping others to become effective and compassionate practitioners is a need for an organizing principle, that is, specifically teaching/learning to think in nonlinear ways in conjunction with already well-established empirically determined common factor principles of effective treatment

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