The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy Is CBT Crap?
Curt and Katie talk about evidence-based practices, clinician training, and when even the evidence base can go wrong.
It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.
In this episode we talk about:
- How we know better than the evidence
- The need for evidence-based practice in community mental health
- Funding, efficiency, and diagnosis
- The difference between the clientele in public mental health and private practice
- Evidence-based practices pros and cons
- The science, the efficacy, replicability of EBPs
- The pros and cons of EBPs in community mental health
- The need to include individual factors in EBPs
- EBPs versus relational style (and how they may not be mutually exclusive)
- The question about personality characteristics of CBT therapists
- The opinion about rapport being missing from EBPs
- How training jumps to EBP, to the detriment of the relationship
- The problem with people who overuse or oversimplify the need for each orientation
- Strong clinical orientation versus the “eclectic” or “integrative” psychotherapy
- The Medical Model
- The challenge of training therapists in relational skills and how to be a better therapist, rather than teaching specific handful of skills
- The importance of proving efficacy, getting funding for services
- Treatment decision-making and collaboration in public mental health versus private practice
- The complexity of actual clients and the need for more than just one EBP to use for treatment
- The problems with new clinician training related to EBPs
Resources mentioned:
We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.
Dr. Scott Miller: Feedback Informed Treatment
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