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Practitioner's Guide to Evidence-Based Psychotherapy

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I want to try to overwrite a misguided one-star review that appears to be a mistake but is logged in here anyhow and makes this look at a glance like a crummy book. This book is quite good. It is encyclopedic, and both well written and well edited, even well bound. The authors snipe at what they call "psychoreligions", meaning psychotherapy based on tradition, optimism, convenience, or anything other than hard clinical evidence. Like a mystical belief system rather than scientific knowledge. This seems like a polarizing how do you do for a worthy new way of thinking. Aside from that little slap, this book is a welcome chunk of terra firma. The disabilities with which I am most familiar are tightly and thoroughly described and the treatments that are actually known to work best laid out nicely, all just enough but not too much, with good references. A timely reference.

This is a very helpful, comprehensive guide for empirically supported treatments and assessments for a broad range of problems. I have used it countless times and I highly recommend it.

The book took for ever to make it at my house, I had to email them many times. They were really nice through the emails, but at the end it took more than what was estimated by the sellers to make it to my destination.

Is about time professionals wake up and start providing research based treatment and understand what it means. The psychological and allied professions are currently practicing at the level of believing that the earth is flat and the sun rises and sets down as it rotates around our planet.

Psychologist and its allied profession are extremely ignorant of the science necessary to provide services with appropriate protocols. I am giving the profession a need for urgent wake up. It is my believe and opinion that soon the profession will find themselves being part of malpractice suite because they are not providing results associated with the patients needs. This book and another one by Dr. O'Donohue edited with Scott Lilienfeld "The Great at Ideas of Clinical Science: 17 Principles that Every MentalHealth Professionals Should Understand would no doubt improve services to mental health patients. Particular attention need to be given by professionals in substance abuse treatment whose outcome are horrendously poor and blame their patients when theydo not reach the outcomes they should. Professionals needs to stop deceitful on their statistical outcomes and the science this book provide should help in professionals becoming more ethical.

We really need to learn the science you have not learned yet and this book should give you a good start in a good direction. If you do not think our professions are not harming patients, look again and be honest to yourselves.

Excellent book to have for reference. I use this book a lot with my clients.