Developing Guidelines and Competencies for the Training of Psychedelic Therapists Janis Phelps Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2017, 1–38 DOI: 10.1177/0022167817711304 Abstract Research since the 1950s has shown that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy has had significant positive effects in reductions of specific clinical symptoms and increases in quality of life as measured on a variety of indices. The intensity of focus on evidence-based outcomes, however, has resulted in a paucity of active discussions and research on the core competencies of the therapists themselves. The context of the history of psychedelic research reveals how this neglect of therapist variables occurred. With current discussions of Phase 3 and expanded access [...]
Lire la suiteThe influence of therapists’ first-hand experience with psychedelics on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy research and therapist training ELIZABETH M. NIELSON and JEFFREY GUSS Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2018 DOI: 10.1556/2054.2018.009 Abstract Clinical research on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is rapidly advancing in the USA, with two drugs, psilocybin and MDMA, progressing through a structure of FDA-approved trials on a trajectory toward Drug Enforcement Agency rescheduling for therapeutic use. Researcher’s and clinician’s personal use of psychedelics was cited as a potential confound in psychedelic research studies conducted in the 1950s and 1960s, a concern which contributed to the cessation of this research for some 20 years. Currently, there is no [...]
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