BEYOND "ESTs" Problematic Assumptions in the Pursuit of Evidence-Based Practice

By P. Wachtel. 2010

96 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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2. David F. Tolin
3. Dean McKay
4. E. Kennedy
5. N. Midgley

Citations in the corpus

• Empirically Supported Treatment: Recommendations for a New Model (2015, background): “The internal validity and degree of research bias in clinical trials are not adequately addressed, potentially making the results prone to false-positive results (Luborsky et al., 1999; Wachtel, 2010).”
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base (2011, background): “There is a great deal of debate about the assumptions built into the idea of a ‘hierarchy of evidence’ and especially the emphasis placed on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) as the ‘gold standard’ for psychotherapy research (see, for example, Leichsenring, 2004 ; Wachtel, 2010 ).”
• Single-Case Experimental Designs: A Systematic Review of Published Research and Current Standards (2012, background): “Skepticism about the clinical utility of the randomized controlled trial (e.g., Jacobson & Christensen, 1996; Wachtel, 2010; Westen & Bradley, 2005; Westen, Novotny, & Thompson-Brenner, 2004) has renewed researchers’ interest in SCEDs as a means to assess intervention outcomes (e.”