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Cognitive-behaviour Therapy: Towards the New Millennium!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

Timothy J. Sharp
Timothy J. Sharp*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney Pain Management and Research Centre
*
University of Sydney Pain Management and Research Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards NSW 2065, Australia. E-mail: tsharp@med.su.oz.au
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Following on from the American Psychological Association's (1993) findings regarding empirically validated treatments, a British task force (Roth & Fonagy, 1996) arrived at similar conclusions. Both publications strongly endorsed the superior efficacy of cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) over placebos, waiting list controls and other psychological treatments. These findings, although not new, are becoming increasingly important as new ways of funding health care become more likely. With these probable changes in health system funding, organisations such as the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy will almost certainly be asked to provide evidence supporting the efficacy of certain interventions for certain problems, but also to decide who can implement such treatments. This article attempts to present the well known findings within the current framework, and poses an important question: Who can ethically and competently practice CBT?

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Research Article
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Behaviour Change , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 187 - 191
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1997

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