In other fields of medicine, this may not be the case, but in
the mental health world, evidence based practice is a relatively
new development. “Evidence-based practice” means we conduct our
clinical practice based on evidence that we’ve acquired from
clinical research. Similar to drug research, your doctor will
usually prescribe medications that’ve been tested thoroughly
through many trials, and have been proven to benefit your health
condition. Once upon a time, your therapy could’ve been based on
Dr. Ego’s clinical expertise, big name or great insights, but
thankfully these days such practices are slowly becoming a
nightmare of the past (although, drug companies still invest on
armies of Dr. Egos “aka opinion leaders” to influence your local
doctor’s prescription practices). However, evidence-based
practice is a fairly recent development in the field of mental
health, and especially in the field of psychotherapy. The rise
of behavioral therapy in the 60s, partly as a reaction to the
psychoanalytic status q