Diving into EBP: An Experiment in Conversation Part 6

Alaina: I think I see us showing a lot of allegiance to asking the question, “Is this really working?” but that I, at least, ask the question grudgingly and with trepidation rather than enthusiastically. To riff on your question, what are the resources that we need to enthusiastically confront an approach that we love, but that we are beginning to see holes in? Maybe these three things:
- a path, or a roadmap, so that we have a process to follow for engaging in intellectual confrontation.
- support from the people we work with, especially colleagues and clients’ parents, who may have come to believe in the same treatment approaches we are now wanting to discard/modify.
- a personal commitment to pursuing the truth.
What other resources could we shore up, so that we would start excitedly, gladly, and enthusiastically looking for flaws in the treatment approaches that we love the best?