Publication details
Introduction and Framing of the Book
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The issue of warrant is explored here: what constitutes sufficient justification for the practice of gestalt therapy? Might it be, they wondered, the so-called evidence provided through randomly assigned clinical trials? Might it reasonably include other types of interventions, treatments, and techniques? Indeed, what constitutes the evidence in the construct of evidence-based practice? Is it process outcomes studies? Is it gestalt-informed qualitative research? Is it the common factors research or the practice-based or client-centered outcomes? Do we look exclusively to the university and its largely group studies using convenient student populations or do we move beyond the university and its reduction of variables to the messy world of larger clinical practice? The answer relates to the issue of the gulf between research findings and clinical practice–the application of research to practice. |