Curt and Katie talk about evidence-based practices, clinician training, and when even the evidence base can go wrong.
It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.
In this episode we talk about:
How we know better than the evidence
The need for evidence-based practice in community mental health
Funding, efficiency, and diagnosis
The difference between the clientele in public mental health and private practice
Evidence-based practices pros and cons
The science, the efficacy, replicability of EBPs
The pros and cons of EBPs in community mental health
The need to include individual factors in EBPs
EBPs versus relational style (and how they may not be mutually exclusive)
The question about personality characteristics of CBT therapists
The opinion about rapport being missing from EBPs
How training jumps to EBP, to the detriment of the relationship
The problem with people who overuse or oversimplify the need for each orientation
Strong clinical orientation versus the “eclectic” or “integrative” psychotherapy
The Medical Model
The challenge of training therapists in relational skills and how to be a better therapist, rather than teaching specific handful of skills
The importance of proving efficacy, getting funding for services
Treatment decision-making and collaboration in public mental health versus private practice
The complexity of actual clients and the need for more than just one EBP to use for treatment
The problems with new clinician training related to EBPs
Resources mentioned:
We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.
Dr. Scott Miller: Feedback Informed Treatment
Dr. Ben Caldwell
Modern Community Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Kenneth Yeager, David Cutler, Dale Svendsen, and Grayce M. Sills
Relevant Episodes:
Therapist Know Thyself
Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapists Group
Therapy Reimagined 2019
Our CALL FOR SPEAKERS!!
Our consultation services:
The Fifty-Minute Hour
Credits:
Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/
Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/
