Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and the Third Wave
Syndrome-based treatments have dominated the evidence-based landscape for almost 50 years. This syndrome approach has served well to increase diagnostic reliability and develop scientific treatment packages. However, the age of “which evidence-based package is the best?” is coming to an end. The question moving forward is “which shared mechanisms across disorders and treatments should be targeted”?
This “transdiagnostic” or “third wave” approach has been welcomed by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), signaling process-based therapy (PBT) as the future of evidence based-practice. Targeting shared processes such as “psychological flexibility”, which cut across syndromes, will simplify complex interventions, better treat comorbid presentations and bring non-CBT approaches into the evidence-based fold.
The Future of CBT and Evidence-Based Therapy
Please click on the link below to read about moving beyond syndromes and into a transdiagnostic world.
