A Study On Evidence-based Practice In Psychotherapy

Evidence-based practice in psychotherapy, though initiated by the social causes, was a new movement with the profound psychotherapy background. It advocated the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences. Within a few years, evidence-based practice had won the fervent attention of clinical psychologists, the warm responses of managed cares, insurance agents and scientific research funds, and became a hot topic in psychotherapy.With documents analysis method, the author tried to give comprehensive analysis and evaluation to evidence-based practice. Specifically, the author tried to clarify the thoughts origin, main contents, fundamental questions of evidence-based practice, to assess its contributions and limitations, and then offered the idea of the future development of evidence-based practice.According to the author, evidence-based practice in psychotherapy, influenced by evidence-based medicine, and promoted by philosophical thoughts such as economic rationalism, empiricism, positivism and pragmatism, was an integrity campaign with scientific research evidence nucleus. Its integrity reflected in the integrity in practice, the integrity of research methods and the integrity of influence factors. The fundamental questions of evidence-based practice were also centered on the integrity of scientific research and clinical practice. However, the integrity of evidence-based practice was not the complete integrity. Currently, it was still at its first stage, and need to go further and the connotation of scientific research evidences were also need to be expanded.