Facts and values in psychotherapy—A critique of the empirical reduction of psychotherapy within evidence‐based practice

This paper addresses an implicit presupposition in research‐supported psychological treatments and evidence‐based practice in psychology. It argues that the notion of research‐supported psychological treatments is based on a reductive conceptualisation of psychotherapy. Research‐supported psychologi...

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Published in:Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 1075 - 1080
Main Authors: Berg, Henrik, Slaattelid, Rasmus
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2017
Subjects:
Cognitive Therapy - methods
Empirical Research
Evidence-Based Practice - methods
evidence‐based practice
evidence‐based practice in psychology
evidence‐based psychology
facts and values
Humans
Psychology - methods
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy - methods
research‐supported psychological treatments
scientism
theory of science
research-supported psychological treatments
evidence-based practice
evidence-based practice in psychology
facts and values
theory of science
evidence-based psychology
scientism
ISSN:1356-1294, 1365-2753, 1365-2753
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Summary:This paper addresses an implicit presupposition in research‐supported psychological treatments and evidence‐based practice in psychology. It argues that the notion of research‐supported psychological treatments is based on a reductive conceptualisation of psychotherapy. Research‐supported psychological treatments hinge upon an empirical reduction where psychotherapy schools become conceptualized as mere collections of empirical propositions. However, this paper argues that the different psychotherapy schools have distinct ethoses that are constituted by normative claims. Consequently, the evaluation of the different psychotherapy schools and the practice of psychotherapy should include the underlying normative claims of these ethoses.
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ISSN:1356-1294
1365-2753
1365-2753
DOI:10.1111/jep.12739