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Psychotherapy in the era of evidence-based medicine

✍ Scribed by Vladan Starcevic

Publisher
Informa plc
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
84 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
1039-8562

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✦ Synopsis

Objective: To examine the status of psychotherapy in an era when evidence-based medicine (EBM) largely determines what constitutes efficacious treatment, and to suggest how psychotherapy might respond to the expectations of EBM, while preserving its identity and role in psychiatry.

Conclusions: If EBM is espoused dogmatically it is likely that psychotherapy will never meet its requirements. Psychotherapy can survive in the climate of an ever-increasing pressure to demonstrate its usefulness by insisting on its own criteria for doing so. This is legitimate in view of the specific features of psychotherapy, which make the standard EBM procedures for assessing the usefulness of treatment largely inapplicable.

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