Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: The State of the Science and Practice

The terrain of contemporary psychotherapy is vast. In fact, patients can choose from more than 500 brands of psychotherapy. The challenges in navigating this bewildering landscape of psychotherapeutic interventions can be daunting (Lilienfeld, 2007). In this volume, we guide consumers of psychotherapy, clinicians, researchers, and students in the task of ascertaining the psychological treatments that are most rigorously evaluated, the treatmentmechanisms that are best established, and the interventions that aremost likely to be associated with positive outcomes for an array of disorders.