- Therapies Tested and Found to Be Safe and Effective
- Note that this doesn't list therapies tested
and found to be unsafe and non-effective, nor therapies not tested.
From Stop Bad Therapy, a campaigning site attacking any therapy it considers bad. Its focus on therapeutic effectiveness and safety is important. But it is self-appointed and slightly ranty, not to mention a bit disorganised - the Site Map is probably the best method of navigation.
Also of interest is What is Good Therapy, though it then ducks the question for being too vague, and answers a different one instead. And the questionnaire, Evaluate your Therapy asks some interesting questions. - Grasping the Nettle: or Why Psychoanalytic Research is such an Irritant
- Paper by Peter Fonagy arguing that Psychoanalysis needs to conduct research into it's effectiveness. See also an overview of his work in Nurture studies. [down at last link check - 18 Sep 05]
- Effectiveness Matters: Counselling in Primary Care (pdf)
- Sponsored by NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) and peer reviewed. This exams the effectiveness of short-term counselling provided at GP (General Practitioner) Clinics in the UK by Counsellors, mainly registered with the BACP and (75%) holding diplomas, offering brief treatments (6 to 12 sessions). The clients were referred for mainly with stress and anxiety, depression, relationship and/or self-esteem problems; and bereavement counselling.
- Effectiveness of Counselling
- From CounsellingResource.com.