Evidence Based Counselling and Psychological Therapies

Nancy Rowland is the Research & Development Facilitator at York NHS Trust and is Head of Communication/Dissemination at the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling’s Research & Evaluation Committee., Stephen Goss is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, a Counsellor at Napier University and a qualified counselling supervisor. He is a member of the British Association for Counselling Practice Development Committee and Chair of their Research and Evaluation Committee.

• Part 1 What is evidence-based health care?; Chapter 1 Evidence-based psychological therapies, Nancy Rowland, Stephen Goss; Chapter 2 The drive towards evidence-based health care, Mark Baker, Jos Kleijnen; Chapter 3 Towards evidence-based health care, Brian Ferguson, Ian Russell; Chapter 4 Economics issues, Alan Maynard; Chapter 5 Evidence-based psychotherapy, Glenys Parry; Part 2 Generating the evidence; Chapter 6 Randomised controlled trials and the evaluation of psychological therapy, Peter Bower, Michael King; Chapter 7 The contribution of qualitative research to evidence-based counselling and psychotherapy, John McLeod; Chapter 8 Rigour and relevance, Michael Barkham, John Mellor-Clark; Part 3 Synthesising the evidence; Chapter 9 Systematic reviews in mental health, Simon Gilbody, Amanda Sowden; Chapter 10 Clinical practice guidelines development in evidence-based psychotherapy, John Cape, Glenys Parry; Chapter 11 Getting evidence into practice, Stephen Goss, Nancy Rowland;