What Works with Individuals in a Clinical Setting?

A commentary on Empirically supported treatments in psychotherapy: towards an evidence-based or evidence-biased psychology? by Castelnuovo, G. (2010). Front. Psychology 1:27. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00027 Castelnuovo’s review of research on psychotherapeutical effectiveness (Castelnuovo, 2010), gathers together and summarizes a large body of literature. It explains the background of methods used in psychotherapeutic outcome research, while examining the premises behind the empirically supported treatment (EST) movement, clearly demonstrating the truth