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See, for example, major economic meltdown; Syrian refugee crisis, rise of anti-establishment and the nouveau right, Britain’s decision to Brexit.
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And with this the almost automatic response to mental health problems being the prescription of pharmaceuticals.
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Given that even the most modest estimates suggest that the amount of practice that can accurately claim to be evidence based is about 40%—with other studies suggesting even lower numbers, it is something of an overreach to adopt the term ‘evidence-based practice’.
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Indeed the Orwellian term ‘alternate facts’ has been advanced recently by a senior advisor to Donald Trump (i.e. Kellyanne Conway). See http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts-internet-memes/.
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Not all research paradigms or methods see reproducibility as possible or necessary to establish credibility, truth value or validity of findings; readers are referred to the vast literature available on qualitative research methodology and the various underpinning philosophical views.
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As this suggests a power differential between service user and P/MH nurse people with mental health problems
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Cutcliffe, J.R., Santos, J.C. (2018). Introduction: Remembering the Person: The Need for a Twenty-First-Century, Person-Centred European Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Textbook. In: Santos, J., Cutcliffe, J. (eds) European Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing in the 21st Century. Principles of Specialty Nursing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31772-4_1
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