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Resolving the Therapy Culture Wars by the Pragmatic Case Study Method
Author(s) -
Fishman Daniel B.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2003.tb00552.x
Subject(s) - closet , project commissioning , psychotherapist , psychology , publishing , family therapy , engineering ethics , epistemology , sociology , management science , political science , history , engineering , law , philosophy , archaeology
Is there a therapy research paradigm that is suited to the models of clinicians who do not use a CBT approach? This article says yes, and describes that alternative: the collection into an organised database of systematic, ‘pragmatic case studies’ conducted by individual therapists. A review of this paradigm reveals that it can also serve the needs of CBT clinicians and researchers who, it turns out, are actually closet case‐study advocates.