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Comment on BBC piece on psychotherapy regulation by zarathustra

zarathustra — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:06:21 +0000

From what I’ve seen of how the HPC intends to regulate psychotherapy, there’s actually not that much emphasis on evidence-based practice – the bulk of it as about using “appropriate models”, keeping accurate records, maintaining confidentiality etc. There’s some bits about being able to understand and apply research, but that’s about it.

Therefore I don’t think there’s much substance to the anti-regulation campaign’s insistence that the HPC would force psychotherapists to adhere to evidence-based practice.

Though why that would necessarily be a bad thing is beyond me.

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Comment on My CMHT Did Something Cool by doricgirl

doricgirl — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:35:03 +0000

Fantastic – thanks so much for doing that. If you got an email from someone thanking you it was me – didn’t want to mention that in the email in case it was someone else! Glad you found the Crisis Centre one as well – we are actually having the manager come to our office to answer questions and get input on their leaflet and service if you are interested in that?

OK end of hard sell – thanks so, so much for doing that – much appreciated. Hope you are doing OK.

Take care

doricgirl

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Comment on BBC piece on psychotherapy regulation by Jan21

Jan21 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:54:02 +0000

PS. I am a academic psychologist with a background in statistics, stats are fine if you know the limits of them....and mathmeticians no better, stats used in ideas of the mind are very very dubious tools.

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Comment on BBC piece on psychotherapy regulation by Jan21

Jan21 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:52:26 +0000

We all have “faith” in the healing power of relationships, but to quantify this is verging on the ridiculous.

When in a face to face with another human being, you either have “faith” that you are trying to “meet” the other….thats a risk we have to take…..it goes beyond quatification

A psychologist armed with statistical facts about theory is in no better shape to meet aanother human being than a lay person with no facts…..the lay person may be better for the lay person mayhave faith so to speak in the meeting

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Comment on BBC piece on psychotherapy regulation by Jan21

Jan21 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:47:40 +0000

E, much of the claims of evidence based mental health research (i.e., CBT, and other froms of therapy) are extremely dubious. The use of statistics on human subjects to predict, get reliability, validity etc etc is highly questionable and fulled very much (the research) on subjective hunches, faith in conceptual "norms etc etc. Voodoo for exmaple, is crap from an empirical western popperian paradigm, but has real effects within the community that voodoo exists in. This does not mean its crap...it has real social effects in a context, just like psychoanalysis does.

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Comment on My CMHT Did Something Cool by emmie

emmie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:40:31 +0000

oops, ignore the crisis centre question, I found the survey on Infusion's website and have done that one too. Em

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Comment on Slapheads: Professions Allied to Medicine by Jan

Jan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:35:43 +0000

Musclebound Melvin - a sub-species, OT crossed with a physio, a fitness instructor. Not technically a slaphead, actually a nice chap, just looks un-nerving due to the fact his body is so well-developed he now looks like a condom that's been stuffed with wallnuts.

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Comment on My CMHT Did Something Cool by emmie

emmie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:13:17 +0000

Thanks – have done the survey and left contact details. My experiences of detention have been quite poor at times so am glad someone is looking at the issue. Think there is a lot that could be improved in that area. I noticed from the Users forum newsletter (just skimmed it as concentration not great) there had been problems finding people to talk about the Crisis centre? I’ve used the service (well, tried to!) and have things to say about that too. Are they still looking for people to comment? I didn’t know there was an evaluation. Always happy to comment..

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Comment on BBC piece on psychotherapy regulation by E

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:02:05 +0000

Regulation for psycotherapists raises a simple problem: it’s very hard to regulate practitioners who make claims based more on faith than evidence. In such a situation, what is your yardstick for whether a clinical decision was reasonable?

If Freudian psychoanalysts are “taught” that the id is the seat of all our subconscious desires and sublimation and transference is the mechanism by which those desires are projected from one’s Mummy onto the therapist then it would be hard to say the fitness of any particular therapist was impaired because they would honestly believe this nonsense to be the case.

Similarly how do you “regulate” crystal healing or water dowsing when the “science” it is based on is obviously crap?