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• patients request a specific form of treatment
• Clients were initially asked whether they would prefer a treatment that had been found to work for about 70% of clients in recent clinical trials but was delivered by a therapist who was difficult to relate to, or a treatment that had been found to work for about 10% of clients in recent clinical trials but was delivered by a therapist who was easy...
• schizophrenia
• As Sir William Osler (1906), father of modern medicine, wrote: “It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.” In fact, as we will see, evidence-based practice (EBP) demands that mental health professionals attend to patient characteristics, preferences, and values.
• The traditional medical–pharmaceutical model assumes that the curative power lies primarily in the medicine or method; that is, the relationship is hierarchically structured, with the provider serving as the expert, and the patientʼs role is to comply and participate as prescribed (Bohart, 2005; Orlinsky, 1989).