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Dissemination before evidence? What are the driving forces behind the dissemination of mindfulness-based interventions?

Society of Clinical Psychology

During the past decades there has been a rapidly growing interest in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) like MBSR or MBCT. We contend that, in addition to empirical arguments, a complex mixture of historical, social and psychological factors has fueled the acceptance of MBIs in the healthcare systems of Western societies.

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It’s Time for a Change in How We Design, Develop, Test and Disseminate Empirically Supported Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

There is nothing short of a changing of the guard occurring in the United States healthcare system, writ large, including the mental health system. Thus, most population health contexts are also brief intervention contexts. This approach is generally referred to as “population-based healthcare”.

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Clinical Philosophy

I don't know about you, but the reason I often make notes after psychotherapy sessions is because I need aides-memoires. I've about 18 patients - in my private psychotherapy practice - at any one time; most of them attend just once a week. You're probably instead in something like an 'intervention'-providing business.)

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What we know now about bridging the gap between research and practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

About two decades ago, psychologists who develop and study psychotherapy interventions began to recognize that publications on the efficacy of new psychotherapies were not sufficient to change practice. VA Healthcare System, the U.K., 2010 for a summary). 2010 for a summary). But this still isn’t the whole picture.

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Making Meaning of Mixed Evidential Value for Research on Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs)

Society of Clinical Psychology

During the 1970’s, psychological researchers began using randomized controlled trials–just like in medicine–in order to scientifically evaluate the effectiveness of different kinds of psychotherapies. statistical misreporting) into their evaluations of the psychotherapy literature. Williams, Ph.D. Kilshaw, B.Sc.