Abstract
This chapter takes a look at the history of evidence-based treatments (EBT) in psychotherapy from the 1950s to the present, specifically in child psychotherapy. The American Psychological Association (APA) and other government task forces have put mandates in place for treatments to be “empirically supported” with at least one randomized control trial (RCT) in an effort to make sure that children are receiving the empirically supported treatments that are shown to be effective. This EBP movement has ensured that people are receiving treatments that were actually designed to work for them, and those treatments have received more funding. In turn, clinicians and mental health agencies have been implementing practice of these evidence-based treatments for children. While there are still challenges related to implementing empirically supported treatments, we may be on the right track to providing children with psychotherapeutic interventions that really work.
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Forte, L.A., Timmer, S., Urquiza, A. (2014). A Brief History of Evidence-Based Practice. In: Timmer, S., Urquiza, A. (eds) Evidence-Based Approaches for the Treatment of Maltreated Children. Child Maltreatment, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7404-9_2
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