Empirically Support Txs
Jason Washburn
I received this from the APA Div. 29 list. Thought it might stimulate some
discussion.
What do people think about the use of empirically supported treatments in
guiding therapeutic decisions? How does the concept of "empirically
supported treatments" connect to the concept of "empirically validated
treatments"? What about the use of these findings for treatment
decisions at HMOs? What about the research methodology used in the
studies that provide empirical support?
Anybody wanna take a bite on these questions?
P.S. I have a list of Empirically Supported Treatment Manuals/ Articles that
came along with the message below. I didn't include it because it was so
long. E-mail me if you want them.
Jason W.
DePaul University
e-mail: jwas...@wppost.depaul.edu
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>MANUALS FOR EMPIRICALLY SUPPORTED TREATMENTS: 1998
UPDATE
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> Sheila R. Woody, PhD & William C. Sanderson, PhD (Editors)
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> (January 1998)
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>Development of this Resource
>
>The Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) Task Force on
>Psychological Interventions has worked for several years to
>establish and revise criteria for judging whether a
>treatment may be considered to be empirically supported.
>Several lists of examples of well-established and
>probably efficacious treatments have been published.
>Please see those reports (Chambless et al., in press;
>Chambless et al., 1996; Task Force on Promotion and
>Dissemination of Psychological Procedures, 1995) for
>complete details. To assist clinicians and educators in
>learning more about these treatments with scientific
>support, the Task Force on Psychological Interventions has
>also endeavored to publicize information about how to obtain
>manuals detailing those treatments considered to be well-
>established (Sanderson & Woody, 1995). The present resource
>represents an updated list of manuals that have been
>published or are available from the author(s).
>
>What qualifies as a manual? In building this resource, we
>attempted to locate materials that provide sufficient detail
>to allow a trained clinician to replicate the treatment. Of
>course, no treatment manual is adequate in the absence of
>solid theoretical grounding and supervised training in the
>particular approach. Recognizing this, we have also
>included, when available,
>information about training in these approaches. We
>specifically excluded conference workshops as a training
>resource, because these workshops typically do not offer the
>opportunity for supervised experience.
>
>This resource listing of manuals is based on the most recent
>Task Force report (in press). We wrote to leading
>investigators in well-established areas of treatment
>research, particularly those scientists whose work formed
>the basis for judging a particular treatment to be
>efficacious. These investigators provided citations for
>manuals that have been published. Many authors offered to
>provide copies of unpublished manuals to clinicians,
>although requests must be accompanied by a check to cover
>the costs of photocopying and postage. Because this
>resource is based on the judgments of the Task Force on
>Psychological Interventions, it is necessarily limited to
>those areas that have been thoroughly reviewed by the Task
>Force. We have included manuals corresponding to treatments
>judged to be well-established as a service to professionals
>who wish to learn more about scientifically supported
>treatments. No judgment about treatments or manuals not
>appearing on the list is implied. Careful readers may
>notice that some treatments that appeared on the 1995
>listing of manuals do not appear in this edition; these
>deletions are due to revisions in the Task Force=92s list of
>examples of well-established treatments.
>
>A copy of this resource is available from the Division 12
>Central Office. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope and
>$1.50 for handling to P.O. Box 1082, Niwot, CO 80544.
>
Stephen Gorny
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Jason Washburn wrote:
> What do people think about the use of empirically supported treatments in
> guiding therapeutic decisions? How does the concept of "empirically
> supported treatments" connect to the concept of "empirically validated
> treatments"? What about the use of these findings for treatment
> decisions at HMOs? What about the research methodology used in the
> studies that provide empirical support?
I am a bit unclear as to the distinctions between these two terms. My
thinking would suggest that "empirically validated" simply means a great
deal of "empirical support". Could you please expand on the distinction
a bit further?
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