ABSTRACT
From the very beginning of the development of cognitive therapy, Beck has shown a characteristic caution about making any claims for his ideas before they were already backed up by significant data and research. Often ideas begin from clinical insight but then must be tested by psychological experiments. Once a working model has been established then further tests on intervention methods can begin, building up eventually to full clinical outcome trials. The cognitive therapy and CBT community have developed this kind of scientific approach far more thoroughly than any other therapeutic models – and it has also inspired other models to take this more scientific track now too.
