Rethinking Audit Cultures: A Critical Look at Evidence-based Practice in Psychotherapy and Beyond
Book Details
- Publisher : PCCS Books
- Published : 2010
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 128
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 30387
- ISBN 13 : 9781906254315
- ISBN 10 : 1906254311
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Examines the related demands for audit and evidence-based practice in health services, and how these increasingly encroach upon the field of psychotherapy. The book critically discusses whether the tools used to carry out audit and measure accountability can possibly relate to, or help reflect the nature of psychotherapeutic practice. It suggests why attempts to just extend criteria and methodologies borrowed from medical or other scientific disciplines are likely to obstruct rather than further the development of psychotherapy, and looks at possible alternative and positive ways to monitor or audit the work of psychotherapists.
'We have needed this book for a long time, and now that the evidence-based emperor has been comprehensively de-robed, therapists have no excuse for not challenging full on the crass inappropriateness of the all-engulfing auditing mentality. Therapists of every hue simply must read this essential book.'
- Dr Richard House, Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, Roehampton University
About the Editor(s)
Dr Lucy King trained as a psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association and remains closely involved with its teaching programme. She has a private practice as a psychotherapist as well as working for many years in the Cambridge University Counselling Service. She is a founder member of the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy.
Dr Christina Moutsou trained as a psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association and she has worked in one of its houses for five years. She currently works in private practice and as a sessional lecturer of psychoanalysis at Birkbeck, University of London.
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