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Article: Empirically Supported Therapies: Best Practices in Professional Psychology
- Article from:
- Canadian Psychology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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KEITH S. DOBSON and KENNETH D. CRAIG (Eds.) Empirically Supported Therapies: Best Practice in Professional Psychology Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998, 333 pages (ISBN 0-7619-1076-X, US$36.95, Softcover)
Reviewed by DAVID R. EVANS
Since 1969, when the first Banff Conference was held, the focus has continued to be on treatment and its validity. The Banff Conference was conceived as a way to bring together leaders in behaviour therapy to present and discuss their evolving behavioural treatments and the empirical support for them. In many ways the focus of this book on empirically supported therapies comes full circle to remind us of the importance of the empirical support for the ...