COMMENT: THE EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT DEBATE: TOWARD A DIALECTICAL RAPPROCHEMENT

摘要

In this commentary on Zeldow's (2009) "In Defense of Clinical Judgment, Cre-dentialed Clinicians, and Reflective Practice," the dialectical method is presented as a conceptual model and strategy for reconciling the division between clinical practitioners and clinical scientists in their acceptance of the need for empirically based psychological treatments and practices. Recommendations are made for (a) better integrating practitioners in the conduct of science, (b) confronting unhelpful attitudes of scientific chauvinism and imperialism, and (c) recognizing the contributions of both microlevel (process) and macrolevel (outcome) phenomena in psychotherapeutic practice and its scientific investigation.