Embracing Complexity: A Critical Approach to Efficacy and Manualised Practices in Psychotherapy (Concepts for Critical Psychology)

Embracing Complexity: A Critical Approach to Efficacy and Manualised Practices in Psychotherapy considers the implications for psychotherapeutic practice and research when forced to demonstrate ‘efficacy’ through repeatable models and manualised practices.The book discusses how manualised treatments impact the therapist and their practice with clients, challenging the notion that measuring and repeating manualised psychotherapeutic practice always moves toward best practice. It considers the growth of manualised interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) which have undergone rapid expansion and implementation in recent decades and is often seen as the gold standard of measurable, evidence-based treatment.However, manualised practices can be critiqued as reductive and failing to incorporate the complexities of the self as a whole into the therapeutic relationship, instead over relying on the reduction of symptoms relating to one diagnosis.The book considers whether standa