evidence based treatment

[Erica Hollander]

I think there is a confusion in this discussion so far between  
evidence based treatment and statistically well supported studies.  I  
question whether any treatment should ever be other than evidence  
based.  If not based on evidence, on what?  On blind faith?  I hope not.

But the need for standardizing and supporting types of treatment in  
ways that make reliable and valid studies acceptable in esteemed  
major journals is a different thing, it seems to me.  That is indeed  
something most psychodramatists have not much taste for, it would  
seem, based on past behavior.  So perhaps Rebecca is correct that a  
practice based journal is more in line with what most practitioners  
need and want.

However, it surely would be fine if some of us would be willing to  
make the positivist case for the practice.  I am sure that it can be  
made.  I just don't know many of us who concern ourselves with trying  
to do it.  Indeed, at Denver we work with a population that would  
make a terrific study, yet somehow the demands of practice are quite  
different than the demands of research, and somehow we don't seem to  
get it done, even though it would be well worth doing.   And of  
course funding is an issue that plagues such questions.  Erica Hollander