Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practices

Abstract

The second edition of the Clinician’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practices: Behavioral Health and Addictions provides practitioners with the skills to retrieve and use research in order to benefit patients suffering from mental and addictive disorders. Practice must be informed and guided by research, yet so much of the research literature feels inaccessible and overwhelming, too removed and too large to guide what we do daily with our patients. This book overcomes these challenges to evidence-based practice (EBP) by serving as a practical, how-to guide for graduate students and behavioral health practitioners. Following three realistic patients throughout, the Clinician’s Guide canvases the entire EBP process: asking the right questions, accessing the best available research, appraising the research, translating that research into practice, integrating that research with clinician expertise and patient characteristics, evaluating the entire enterprise, attending to the ethical considerations, and, when done, moving the EBP process forward by teaching it to others. This revised and updated edition includes a separate chapter on filtered sources for accessing the best available research, a series of hands-on Skill Exercises in each chapter to provide practical use of the material, a new section on barriers to successful implementation, and a companion website with expanded content, interactive examples, and hyperlinked references.

Relationships and responsiveness in the psychological treatment of trauma: The tragedy of the APA Clinical Practice Guideline.

“…From this perspective, we critique APA's efforts to advance a biomedical model for psychotherapy and thus focus almost exclusively on treatment methods for particular disorders. Instead, we argue that the research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences and culture (the necessary triumvirate of evidence-based practice; APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice, 2006;Norcross, Hogan, Koocher, & Maggio, 2017) converge on distinctive psychological guidelines that emphasize the therapy relationship and treatment adaptations (responsiveness), both of which independently account for patient improvement more than the particular treatment method. Efforts to promulgate treatment guidelines without including the relationship and responsiveness are seriously incomplete and potentially misleading.…”

Virtue Ethics and Integration in Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology

“…Haynes et al (2002) argued that a tripartite model needs a clinical expert to integrate the three parts. Psychotherapy researchers have deemed clinical expert as the least developed facet of evidence-based practice in psychology (Norcross et al, 2008). This warrants more conceptual work on the nature of clinical expertise in evidence-based practice in psychology.…”

Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology Fails to Be Tripartite: A Conceptual Critique of the Scientocentrism in Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology

“…In spite of its historical background, EBPP’s tripartite model is justified scientifically through the part called “best available research” (Norcross et al, 2008; Gupta, 2014; American Psychological Association, 2016). In the policy-statement, the two parts called “clinical expertise” and “patient characteristics, culture, and preferences” are legitimated and defined through empirical studies indicating that they are significant factors in effective and efficient psychotherapy (American Psychological Association, 2016).…”