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Parallel projects are underway elsewhere, including Germany and the United Kingdom.
It concludes with a summary of the main practical options which have emerged for dealing with the controversy, including recommendations for research and proposals for improving or broadening the EST project. Further dialogue on these issues is encouraged. The criteria are based on a medical-like meta model of psychotherapy designed to appeal to the managed care market, but are inappropriate for therapies whose primary focus is not to cure disorder. We argue that empirical support for a therapy should include research based on methods compatible with the assumptions of the therapy, in particular on what it means to say that a given therapy works. Neither manualization nor the requirement of targeting therapy for treating specific disorders necessarily fit with humanistic assumptions.