Is it time to end individual psychotherapy. One psychologist’s view
Posted Sep 19 2011 5:52pm
Yale psychologist Alfred Kazdin believes individual psychotherapy doesnt work, that the research shows it doesnt work, that many other things do work (like some peer support tools that have a large body of research supporting them), that the things that work dont make it to practice and that countless people are being hurt because the services they are offered dont work and the things that do work remain for many totally unavailible.
There is a group called the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care that has been created to address this issue in particular. You might visit their website at www.mentalhealthexcellence.org .
Please read the attached article. It is startling.
Yale psychologist Alfred Kazdin believes individual psychotherapy doesnt work, that the research shows it doesnt work, that many other things do work (like some peer support tools that have a large body of research supporting them), that the things that work dont make it to practice and that countless people are being hurt because the services they are offered dont work and the things that do work remain for many totally unavailible.
There is a group called the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care that has been created to address this issue in particular. You might visit their website at www.mentalhealthexcellence.org .
Please read the attached article. It is startling.