Evidence Based Interventions Flashcards
EBPP can be in the context of these 3…
Patient characteristics
Culture
Preferences
Evidence based practice in psyc is:
The integration of the best available research with clinical expertise
Purpose of EBPP
To promote effective psyc practice
What 4 empirically supported principles does EBPP promote effective psych practice
Psychological assessment
Case formation
Therapeutic relationship
Intervention
Best research evidence is based on findings in
Systematic reviews
Reasonable effect sizes
Statistical significance
Body of supporting evidence
5 tasks involved in psychology
- How ppl think, feel, behave
- What influences how ppl think, feel, behave
- Consequences of how they think, feel n behave
- Explore meanings ppl attach to things
- How ideas, events, things are represented in lango
Epistemology
Why you know. Nature of knowing
Three methods to gain knowledge of the world:
Intuition & anecdote
Appeals to authority
Observation - empiricism
Attributions
Explanations for behaviour of self and others
Problem with using intuition
Often draw erroneous conclusions about cause and effect
Using authority
Tendency to believe claims based of senior people etc
Empiricism
Gathering data based on the senses
Hypothetico-deductive method
Observations/theories used to generate questions/predictions to test. See if they hold ‘up’. Eliminate what is not true.
4 methodological implications for Hypothetico-deductivism
Data should be collected through direct observation
Use objective tools and methods
Experimentation is most important
Replication is important
