Sperry’s “Achieving Evidence-Based Status for Adlerian Psychotherapy: Why It Is Needed and How to Accomplish It": A response
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 9-4-2018
Description
This article is a response to Len Sperry's paper in which he lays out a compelling case and rationale—as well as the steps in a process—for helping Adlerian therapy to achieve the status of evidence-based practice. The pragmatic importance of Sperry's proposal cannot be ignored if the model is to survive in a clinical world largely controlled by managed-care systems, insurance, and government regulation. Still, the actual value of evidence-based practice for clients can easily be challenged, and as in other helping professions, a model for practice-based evidence might serve individual clients or single client units (e.g., couples, families, groups) much better.
Citation Information
Bitter, James Robert. 2018. Sperry’s “Achieving Evidence-Based Status for Adlerian Psychotherapy: Why It Is Needed and How to Accomplish It": A response. Journal of Individual Psychology. Vol.74(3). 287-295. https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2018.0022 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/702565 ISSN: 2332-0583