Is CBT Crap?

The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy

Curt and Katie talk about evidence-based practices, clinician training, and when even the evidence base can go wrong.

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

In this episode we talk about:

• How we know better than the evidence
• The need for evidence-based practice in community mental health
• Funding, efficiency, and diagnosis
• The difference between the clientele in public mental health and private practice
• Evidence-based practices pros and cons
• The science, the efficacy, replicability of EBPs
• The pros and cons of EBPs in community mental health
• The need to include individual factors in EBPs
• EBPs versus relational style (and how they may not be mutually exclusive)
• The question about personality characteristics of CBT therapists
• The opinion about rapport being missing from EBPs
• How training jumps to EBP, to the detriment of the relationship
• The problem with people who overuse or oversimplify the need for each orientation
• Strong clinical orientation versus the “eclectic” or “integrative” psychotherapy
• The Medical Model
• The challenge of training therapists in relational skills and how to be a better therapist, rather than teaching specific handful of skills
• The importance of proving efficacy, getting funding for services
• Treatment decision-making and collaboration in public mental health versus private practice
• The complexity of actual clients and the need for more than just one EBP to use for treatment
• The problems with new clinician training related to EBPs

Resources mentioned:

We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.

Dr. Scott Miller: Feedback Informed Treatment

Dr. Ben Caldwell

Modern Community Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Kenneth Yeager, David Cutler, Dale Svendsen, and Grayce M. Sills

Relevant Episodes:

Therapist Know Thyself

Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapists Group

Therapy Reimagined 2019

Our CALL FOR SPEAKERS!!

Our consultation services:

The Fifty-Minute Hour

Credits:

Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/

Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/