EBT

Throughout my education and training as a psychologist, I repeatedly encountered familiar terms and phrases used to describe the work we do. In psychological assessment, there was often talk of following the “preponderance of data.” In psychotherapy, the big one was “evidence-based treatment.”   The latter always struck me as somewhat funny. The phrase “evidence-based treatment” (EBT) feels redundant—after all, shouldn’t all psychological treatment be grounded in evidence? Ov