Expertise in Psychotherapy: An Elusive Goal?

It has been argued that psychotherapy is a profession without any expertise (Shanteau, 1992). We examine the validity of this claim, reviewing the literature on expertise, clinical decision making, and psychotherapeutic outcome assessment, and find it a reasonable assessment. There is no demonstrati...

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Published in:The American psychologist 2014-04, Vol.69 (3), p.218-229
Main Authors: Tracey, Terence J. G., Wampold, Bruce E., Lichtenberg, James W., Goodyear, Rodney K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Clinical assessment
Clinical Competence
Clinical decision making
Decision Making
Experience Level
Experts
Feedback
Human
Humans
Hypothesis testing
Individual psychotherapy
Information
Information processing
Literature
Measurement
Medical decision making
Medical sciences
Professional-Patient Relations
Professionalism
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychotherapeutic Outcomes
Psychotherapies. Psychological and clinical counseling
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy - standards
Technology assessment
Therapists
Treatments
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