David Clark and effective psychotherapy models

David Clark cita inTHERAPY

When we choose a psychotherapist, who guarantees us that the psychotherapy Will it be effective?
David Clark Cita inTHERAPY As a virtuous model to be taken, for example, to spread effective psychotherapy based on scientific research.

Prof. David M. Clark on the importance of effective psychological treatments

On April 7, the World Cbt Day was celebrated, a day dedicated to cognitive behavioral psychotherapy. In a historical period in which there is an increase in the request for psychological support, there could be no better opportunity for Prof. David M. Clarkone of the most eminent names in the panorama of research in the psychological and psychotherapeutic field, to reiterate the importance of spreading effective psychological treatments, so that they can be made available to the greatest number of people.

Prof. Clark He is co -founder of the “Talking Therapies” program (previously known as IAPT – Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), an initiative of the United Kingdom National Health Service, designed to offer the population wider access to psychological therapies based on scientific evidence, in particular for common disorders such as anxiety and depression.

When psychology services are the prerogative of the national health system, it is easier to provide uniform service, which follows pre -established guidelines based on the latest developments in scientific research and which offers therapeutic models tested with proven effectiveness.

But how it is possible to expand access to effective psychological therapies (the key word is “effective”, that is, “that work”, whose effectiveness is demonstrated) in countries such as Italy in which the psychotherapy Are you in hand almost completely to freelancers?

When we have to choose a psychotherapist, not only do we have to extricate ourselves between dozens and dozens of different models and guidelines, but also to rely on the discretion of the therapist: there are therapists who follow more or less slavishly psychotherapeutic protocols and others that make their job “an art”.

Prof. Clark cites intherapy as a model of excellence

During an exclusive interview with Dr. Lata K. McGinn, president of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavoral Therastes, Prof. Clark he mentioned Italy, and specifically the service of inTHERAPYas a model of excellence for the development of a program of psychotherapy based on large -scale scientific evidence:

There is a group in Milan, linked to Sigmund Freud University, a university that, in spite of the name, has long formed therapists in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for private practice. Recently, this group has decided to join and has created an extraordinary network made up of all its private therapists. Everyone collects the same data that we also collect in our program, put them together, learn from them and are really improving the quality of the services they offer in private practice.

inTHERAPYthe service of Psychotherapy Online behavioral cognitive and in the presence of the cognitive studies group, it only makes use of therapists formed in schools of Psychotherapy of cognitive studies and constantly monitors the trend of its therapies by collecting data which then analyzes through the Iper-Lab research center of Sigmund Freud University to carry out scientific research and increasingly improve the quality of the psychotherapies that delivers.

inTHERAPY It also aims to replicate the English model and to propose itself in the future as a point of reference for the construction of a service of psychotherapy effectivebased on scientific evidence, which can be adopted by the national health system.

inTHERAPY He is building a database he intends to present to the Italian government – he says Clark.

The goal is to show that one effective psychotherapy Not only is it possible, but that it is possible to make it accessible to everyone through the national health system, just as it was done in England.

“The Republic protects health as a fundamental right of the individual and interest of the community, and guarantees free care for the indigent“.” cites art. 32 of the Constitution.