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Feedback Informed Treatment: Evidence‐Based Practice Meets Social Construction
Author(s) -
Tilsen Julie,
McNamee Sheila
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/famp.12111
Subject(s) - empiricism , dialogic , vignette , mandate , bridging (networking) , social work , social constructionism , epistemology , psychology , psychotherapist , sociology , social psychology , computer science , law , social science , political science , pedagogy , philosophy , computer network
This article explores the challenges presented by the mandate for evidence‐based practice for family therapists who identify with the philosophical stance of social construction. The history of psychotherapy outcome research is reviewed, as are current findings that provide empirical evidence for an engaged, dialogic practice. The authors suggest that the binary between empiricism and social construction may be unhinged by understanding empiricism as a particular discursive frame (i.e., a particular way of talking, acting, and being in the world), one of many available as a way of understanding and talking about our work. Through a case vignette, the authors introduce the evidence‐based practice of Feedback Informed Treatment as an elaboration of social construction, and as an example of bridging the gap between the discursive frames of empiricism and social construction.