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Volume 38, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0263-0672
  • E-ISSN: 2157-1430

Abstract

This article examines the nature of evidence in the arts therapies, and the benefits to clients and therapists of taking a practice-based evidence (PBE) approach to our work. PBE keeps the client at the centre of the work. It involves using assessment and outcome processes which are person-centred, and which can be designed around the client. It challenges the privileging of evidence-based practice (EBP) as providing the only standards for determining which treatments/therapies should be used with clients. It provides ways of gathering data which, cumulatively and singly, demonstrate the effectiveness of the arts therapies.

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