A Critical Reconstruction of Evidence-based Practice in Psychology

Evidence and Ethics
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-84297-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 144 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Mental Health

Evidence-based practice in psychology is the dominant regulatory principle in clinical psychology, defining psychological knowledge and its application. This book provides a critical analysis and a reconstruction of the policy statement focusing on epistemology and ethics.

The book shows the ideological and historical background for the development of evidence-based practice in psychology. It covers the main conceptual and empirical arguments leading to this transition including philosophy and evidence-based medicine. The book goes on to show some of the defects of evidence-based practice in psychology: it misconstrues psychological knowledge; reduces the number of ethical resources available to regulate psychological practices; does not fulfil its ambitions of being a tripartite concept; and undertheorises the issue of integration. The closing chapters provide a constructive critique, preserving the valuable aspects of evidence-based practice in psychology while developing it to make it function adequately. In that sense, the book aims to change the way psychological knowledge is understood and used in practice.

This text will be engaging and thought-provoking for anyone using psychological knowledge with patients or clients. It will provide analytic resources to understand psychology better and facilitate the application of psychological knowledge in various settings.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com,has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, Professional Training, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berg, Henrik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Science, politics, and the technification of psychotherapy 3. The emergence of evidence-based medicine and the return of the expert 4. Evidence-based practice in psychology 5. Facts and values in psychotherapy 6. An ethical demarcation 7. Evidence-based practice in psychology: A tripartite concept? 8. Clinical expertise as therapeutic virtues 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Henrik Berg, PhD, is a full professor in theory of science at the University of Bergen. He has an academic background in philosophy and psychology. He also is a clinical psychologist.