Health care policy, psychotherapy research, and the future of psychotherapy

Journal/Book: Amer Psychol. 1996; 51: 750 First St NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242. Amer Psychological Assoc. 1050-1058.

Abstract: In a quest for accountability in the delivery of health services, health care policymakers in both government and private sectors are creating clinical practice guidelines, many of which heavily emphasize medical and pharmacological approaches. Yet, there are now sufficient data to support the efficacy of psychotherapeutic procedures for a wide variety of specific disorders, and it seems now is the appropriate time to communicate these findings to health care policymakers and the public at large. At the same time, data must be developed on the delivery of these interventions by frontline clinicians in the settings where they practice. The emergence of practice research networks may accomplish this latter goal.

Note: Article DH Barlow, Boston Univ, Ctr Anxiety & Related Disorders, 648 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02215 USA

Keyword(s): PARASUICIDAL BORDERLINE PATIENTS; INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY; BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT; RECURRENT DEPRESSION; THERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; INTERVENTIONS; GUIDELINES; DISORDER; EFFICACY

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