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ArticleThe Psychiatric quarterly2010

'The human prerogative': a critical analysis of evidence-based and other paradigms of care in substance abuse treatment.

Eric Broekaert, Mieke Autrique, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Kathy Colpaert

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Article in The Psychiatric quarterly, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eric BroekaertDepartment of Orthopedagogics, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Ghent, Belgium. Eric.Broekaert@UGent.be
Mieke Autrique
Wouter Vanderplasschen
Kathy Colpaert

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Present-day substance abuse treatment is characterized by a compelling demand for applying evidence-based interventions. Vehement discussions between policymakers, practitioners and researchers illustrate this clash of differing paradigms. The aim of this article is to situate evidence-based practice among the leading paradigms of care and to elucidate its implicit assumptions and potential implications. Evidence-based practice is inherent in the empirical-analytical paradigm of care and science, founded upon randomized and controlled studies. This paradigm is compared with the phenomenological-existential and the critical post-structural paradigm, which focus on elaborating the human potential and exploring individuals' subjective interpretations, and on criticizing social inequalities and striving for compliance with human rights, respectively. Evidence-based practice and the methodological rigidity in each paradigm are analyzed critically. We conclude that through the dialectical integration of these diverse approaches, evidence, existence/humanism and social emancipation can be combined for the benefit of the human prerogative of care.

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HumanismEvidence-Based PracticeHumansModels, TheoreticalSubstance-Related Disorders

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