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Originally Posted by NP_Complete
I'm not referring to databases of clients, questionnaires about your symptoms or providing feedback to your therapist. When I use the term "evidence-based", I'm referring to the use of scientific studies hoping to prove that a specific treatment will help with a particular issue. Both proof and evidence-based have been mentioned several times in this thread. Maybe we're not thinking of the same thing. No one told me that it's highly overrated. That's an opinion I came to on my own after reading about the topic, my own experiences with the main modality that is considered evidence-based (CBT), and my own experiences with my therapist while seeing him for trauma and depression. That being said, CBT might be the perfect thing for another client; we're all different people after all.
Here's a good article that lays out some of the problems with evidence-based psychotherapy.
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Please read my previous posts more carefully then because I wasn't equating the evidence based approach to objective feedback.
Even though that's also very important.
If you really honestly think it's "highly overrated", I would say you need to educate yourself more on the overall issue.
It's absolutely not just CBT. It's any therapy that has been shown to have actual effect. There are several such therapies, CBT, DBT, ACT, MCBT....
Which absolutely does not mean some kind of irresponsible promise that these therapies will help everyone with the particular issue. I personally think that more therapy approaches need to be established. Like the approach I mentioned earlier.
So, all in all, I don't understand how you got to that conclusion. Sounds like your conclusion comes from some kind of disappointment after having high hopes. Or maybe you read up on the topic from questionable sources
The main and most important thing is, we can't just say we should do psychology without looking at what actually works. The claim that focusing on evidence is bullsh--, that would be a step back to the Middle Ages and would just cause harm and damage. I'm not joking. This is a very serious issue.
If you want to say more on why or how you think it's bullsh--, feel free to.