evidence based treatment

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Oh n abt CBT.  Get in touch w clark baim in uk who has a training manual and very successful program funded by uk govt for sex offenders in which in uses Cbt, pda n drama therapy.
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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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