SPECIAL SECTION
Is My Play Therapy Approach Evidence-Based?
| DEE C. RAY, PHD., LPC-S, NCC, RPT-S, APT RESEARCH COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON
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n recent special sections on play therapy research, I have addressed the current status of a few play therapy approaches as
evidence-based according to the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices and California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare, as well as discussed the systemic challenges in organizational
determinations of evidence-based
interventions.
Previous articles have focused on play therapy interventions with substantial evidence to support their status as evidence-based. play therapy to describe or market various play therapy approaches. So, how is a play therapist to know if a play therapy approach is, in reality, evidence-based?
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The primary indicator of intervention effectiveness is completion of at least one randomized controlled trial (RCT) in which a play therapy intervention is tested by comparing randomly assigned participants to comparison groups and using statistical procedures to measure change. RCTs are the industry standard for evidence-based decision- making. The following are basic components of an RCT that must be in place for an intervention to be shown to be effective.
• described in order for the reader to understand exactly how to
conduct the intervention. The intervention is also theoretically- grounded as described by the researcher in order to demonstrate
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