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A Critical Reconstruction of Evidence-based Practice in Psychology: Evidence and Ethics (Routledge Focus on Mental Health) - Hardcover

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Berg, Henrik

 
9781032842974: A Critical Reconstruction of Evidence-based Practice in Psychology: Evidence and Ethics (Routledge Focus on Mental Health)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032842970 ISBN 13: 9781032842974
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Evidence-based practice in psychology is the dominant regulatory principle in clinical psychology, defining psychological knowledge and its application. This book provides a critical analysis and a reconstruction of the policy statement focusing on epistemology and ethics.

The book shows the ideological and historical background for the development of evidence-based practice in psychology. It covers the main conceptual and empirical arguments leading to this transition including philosophy and evidence-based medicine. The book goes on to show some of the defects of evidence-based practice in psychology: it misconstrues psychological knowledge; reduces the number of ethical resources available to regulate psychological practices; does not fulfil its ambitions of being a tripartite concept; and undertheorises the issue of integration. The closing chapters provide a constructive critique, preserving the valuable aspects of evidence-based practice in psychology while developing it to make it function adequately. In that sense, the book aims to change the way psychological knowledge is understood and used in practice.

This text will be engaging and thought-provoking for anyone using psychological knowledge with patients or clients. It will provide analytic resources to understand psychology better and facilitate the application of psychological knowledge in various settings.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com,has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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About the Author

Henrik Berg, PhD, is a full professor in theory of science at the University of Bergen. He has an academic background in philosophy and psychology. He also is a clinical psychologist.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032842970
ISBN 13 
9781032842974
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
138