evidence based treatment

[Peter Howie]

Hi there,

This is an interesting area. It is partially what motivated me to  
relate ask the qustiom re cbt and psychodrama. Cbt is winning the  
sociodynamic game and getting more resources.

10 years ago my partner and I tried to build in research and the  
collection of evidence into an 8 day residential leadership  
development program we were running. It scared the willies out of the  
organizers. I think because they were worried it might not show  
improvement. Anyway we did it and it has became a norm in some areas.  
The evidence collected was profound but no one ecept us were  
interested but it did boost our confidence - we ran about 30 of these.

I, with some gentle guidance from a colleague, and a hopeful  
application of time, am trying to develop simple evaluation processes  
that can form the basis of different types of rsesech. I'm hopeful.

On the other hand, and more importantly, evaluation, when framed well,  
can be a profound source of learning and a form of critical reflection.

Cheers from over here


Peter in Brisbane.


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On Nov 2, 2008, at 3:51 AM, Erica Hollander  
<ericahollander at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
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