What is the scientific meaning of empirically supported therapy?
What is the scientific meaning of empirically supported therapy?
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-006x.66.1.136
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发表时间：
1998-02-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Castonguay, LG
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作者：
Borkovec, TD;Castonguay, LG
严格基于对实验治疗研究性质的实际了解，准确定义“经验支持治疗”的含义和不含义非常重要。经验支持治疗的标准仅允许得出关于治疗是否导致超出安慰剂或时间流逝等因素的因果效应的任何变化的结论。由于外部有效性以及应用决策受到成本效益分析的影响，应用影响是有限的。通过组间设计创造越来越有效的治疗方法最好通过专门针对心理问题本质和治疗改变机制本质等基本问题的对照试验来完成。自然主义研究对于外部有效性很重要，但只有当它使用科学有效的方法来解决基本知识问题时才有价值。
It is important to define precisely what is and is not meant by "empirically supported treatments," rigorously based on what is actually known about the nature of experimental therapy research, The criteria for empirically supported treatments merely allow conclusions about whether treatments cause any change beyond the causative effect of such factors as placebo or the passage of time, Applied implications are limited, due to external validity and to the fact that applied decisions are influenced by cost-benefit analyses. Creating increasingly effective therapies through between-group designs is best done by controlled trials specifically aimed at basic questions about the nature of psychological problems and the nature of therapeutic change mechanisms. Naturalistic research is important for external validity but is valuable only if it uses scientifically valid methods to address basic knowledge questions.