The Practice and Roles of the Psychotherapies: A Discussion Paper

Abstract

The 7 main objectives of this paper are as follows: • To comprehensively detail the efficacy ofthe psychotherapies. • To detail why skills in the psychotherapies are essential to the effective and competent functioning of contemporary psychiatrists. • To establish a balance between the practice and use ofboth short-term and long-term therapies. • To establish definitively that the psychotherapies must be included as a central component of core psychiatric servIces .

Meeting the Needs of Evidence‐based Practice in Family Therapy: Developing the Scientist‐practitioner Model

“…Similar to the appeals from healthcare professionals, governments in numerous countries such as the United Kingdom (Carr, 2000a(Carr, , 2000b, Canada (Cameron et al, 1999), Australia (Mayer and Piterman, 1999) and the United States are promoting utilization of evidence-based practice and treatments. Further, some of the most influential family therapy journals such as Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy have published articles supporting evidence-based practice and treatment.…”