04/06/2024
he World Health Organization has published treatment guidelines - Psychological Interventions Implementation Manual - with recommendations that predominantly endorse behavior therapy (BT) and cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT). This overlooks the significant evidence supporting other therapeutic approaches, including but not limited to psychodynamic therapy. It's likely that these guidelines will restrict access to those approaches by giving insurers, clinics, and policy makers a justification for denying coverage for all but the mostly short-term, structured and symptom-focused treatments.
The Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) has drafted a petition to the WHO, asking them to preserve access to evidence-based therapy. Please take a minute to read and consider signing - and share widely.
The petition supports a comprehensive letter to the WHO written by an international group of psychotherapy outcome researchers. We thank the researchers for their letter, and their work in studying therapy outcomes and creating the evidence base that shows the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy.
PsiAN asks that the WHO include psychodynamic therapies in its guidelines and add psychodynamic researchers and experts to its guidelines development group.
Please read and sign the letter below to encourage the WHO to include psychodynamic therapies in its guidelines and preserve access to evidence-based therapy. Scroll down to sign. You do NOT have to login to Google to add your signature to this letter.
