Marie T. Sergent, PhD, CGP, AGPA-Fellow

07/20/2024

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“Research has shown that meaningful change only begins around the six-month mark,” Shedler reminds us. So why the push for shorter treatments? Take depression, the most common diagnosis in the mental healthcare system, and the most often studied. “Suddenly,” Shedler explains, “you see treatments for depression being promoted as evidence-based. What that means is they’ve been studied in a randomized control trial, like a drug, and the treatments are conducted in a standardized way according to an instruction manual—that’s what gets them called evidence-based, not the benefits to the patients. “Evidence-based” is about how the research is done. Seven out of 10 people who get evidence-based treatments for depression either don’t improve or relapse quickly. And yet we still have academic researchers and insurance marketing executives telling people that these are the gold standard.”

Psychotherapy Networker, March/April, 2024, p.13

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