Critical Reconstruction of Evidence-based Practice in Psychology

<p>Evidence-based practice in psychology is the dominant regulatory principle in clinical psychology defining psychological knowledge and its application. This book provides a critical analysis and a reconstruction of the policy statement focusing on epistemology and ethics.</p><p>The book shows the ideological and historical background for the development of evidence-based practice in psychology. It covers the main conceptual and empirical arguments leading to this transition including philosophy and evidence-based medicine. The book goes on to show some of the defects of evidence-based practice in psychology: it misconstrues psychological knowledge; reduces the number of ethical resources available to regulate psychological practices; does not fulfil its ambitions of being a tripartite concept; and undertheorises the issue of integration. The closing chapters provide a constructive critique preserving the valuable aspects of evidence-based practice in psychology while developing it to make it function adequately. In that sense the book aims to change the way psychological knowledge is understood and used in practice.</p><p>This text will be engaging and thought-provoking for anyone using psychological knowledge with patients or clients. It will provide analytic resources to understand psychology better and facilitate the application of psychological knowledge in various settings.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book available at www.taylorfrancis.comhas been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.</p>