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Not Only Clinical Efficacy in Psychological Treatments: Clinical Psychology Must Promote Cost-Benefit, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Utility Analysis.

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  • Reviewed by: Alessandro Capucci, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy Harm Van Marwijk, University of Manchester, UK

  • Evidence-based psychological therapies and structured psychotherapies have been recommended for common mental health problems, but real provision of them has not yet achieved significant spread and impact (Mukuria et al, 2013)

  • Considering that psychological therapies should be studied in the narrow frame of Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs) approach, and using different and integrated research and statistical methods (Beutler, 2009), their cost-effectiveness demonstration remains an unaddressed issue in the psychotherapy field

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Reviewed by: Alessandro Capucci, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy Harm Van Marwijk, University of Manchester, UK. To improve access to psychological therapies may provide cost-effective solutions, since their positive long-term impact on health has been largely demonstrated (Castelnuovo, 2010a,b; Campbell et al, 2013; Dezetter et al, 2013; Mukuria et al, 2013; Emmelkamp et al, 2014).

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