I find what you say below strange and bordering on the bizarre.
Scott Lilienfeld probably should chime in if he has the time
but in the meantime I suggest that one check out the Cochrane
Collaboration website for background on "evidence based" methods
See:
www.cochrane.org
and the Campbell Collaboration:
http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/
Members of APS should take a look at the recent issue of Psychological
Science in the Public Interest for an article by Foa, Gillihan, & Bryant
on evidence-based treatments for PTSD; see:
http://psi.sagepub.com/content/14/2/65.full
NOTE: You'll have to sign in with your APS ID number.
I find the phrase "evidence based bandwagon" perverse. And if you
have to ask where did it come from suggests that you have a whole
lot reading to do, starting with the establishment of experimental medicine
back at the start of the 20th century.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
P.S. Mantra? PsycInfo is your friend. Pubmed.gov is your friend.
Even scholar.google.com is your friend. Search and you will find.
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:37:38 -0700, Michael Britt wrote:
Not long ago I interviewed a psychoanalyst/author about the concepts of
transference, countertransference and dream interpretation and one blog
commenter almost right away insisted that psychoanalysis was not "evidence
based". What struck me about the comment (and which I'm thinking of focusing
on
in an upcoming episode), is the knee-jerk reaction of "Well, it has to be
evidence-based!" It's almost become a mantra.
Recently we've all become even more focused of the need to strengthen our
research techniques, but we all know that all our approaches have their
strengths and weaknesses. We know that evidence "points toward a
conclusion"
and the more evidence that so the better. So I'm wondering: when does any
technique get the "evidence-based" stamp of approval? Certainly, some of
our
techniques have a strong base of evidence in support of their effectiveness
(say, systematic desensitization for example) but what does it take to get
the
evidence-based "badge"? For that matter, where did the term come from?
Also, I'm wondering if there aren't politics involved here. It would be
interesting if so-called "evidence-based" techniques also happen to be the
short-term, less expensive ones that also happen to be covered by
insurance....
Feedback welcome.
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