Psychological Clinical Intervention: an Evidence-based Practice and an Evidence-based Practice

Abstract

The common psychological interventions of recent years would appear to be inherently related to ethos once we examine them using the idea of self-concept and selfreference. Assuming in consensus that the psychological therapist is not born, but that his authenticity is worked on throughout his professional life, we start by recognizing an unsuccessful difficulty in numerous psychotherapeutic spheres; signified by the heterodox psychotherapeutic praxis subject to treatments of null scientific support. In the case of the clinical psychologist, intervening in the field of mental health requires reformulating his ethos; envisioning a continuous improvement of psycho-health work in the private and public sphere. The formulation of the problem proposes that the term “caging the dodo bird” —in the face of the use and abuse of inefficient psychotherapy models in patients with mental disorders— is useful to understand and work on this ethical-professional problem. Given the turn of epistemological vices and iatrogenic damage revealed by ineffective psychotherapies and pseudopsychotherapies for mental health cases, we value an ethical crisis in the intervention modalities of the clinical psychologist. Crisis that must return to a rereading of the term «psychology» in a fundamental and informed way. For its part, the semantic validity of the aforementioned term suggests a valid and timely assimilation of the scientific nature of psychological knowledge and practice, a formulation that responds in two ways; evidence-based practice (EBP) and evidencebased practice (EBP). We conclude that such a balance of descriptive and normative duality will contribute decisively to assess the effectiveness of clinical psychologist interventions and judge the authenticity of their professional practice, in parallel with the recovery of trust by users of mental health services, for consolidate a psychotherapeutic practice of a scientific nature; by virtue consistent with the nature of psychology as a behavioral science.