Empirically certified treatments or therapists: The issue of separability

Krause, Merton; Lutz, Wolfgang; Saunders, Stephen (2007). Empirically certified treatments or therapists: The issue of separability. Psychotherapy, 44(3), pp. 347-353. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association 10.1037/0033-3204.44.3.347

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Forms of psychotherapy treatment are not neatly separable from one another in actual practice. They differ behaviorally in what they emphasize, but nevertheless they overlap and so cannot be unambiguously compared for effectiveness. Furthermore, forms of psychotherapy are not separable in practice from the therapists who apply them, so apparent differences in effectiveness between forms of treatment are always confounded by differences in effectiveness between therapists. Therapists, however, are separable from one another, and it is therapists not treatment forms that actually treat patients. Therefore, what should primarily be given preference in practice is not treatments empirically certified on the basis of their results in randomized clinical trials but psychotherapists empirically certified to practice on the basis of their results in actual practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology
UniBE Contributor:	Lutz, Wolfgang
ISSN:	0033-3204
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 15:01
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:18
Publisher DOI:	10.1037/0033-3204.44.3.347
PubMed ID:	22122260
Web of Science ID:	000250394600017
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/26304 (FactScience: 68114)