ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the idea of integration which is at the heart of evidence-based practice in psychology. In a complex practice like psychotherapy, the act of integrating 1. Best available research evidence, 2. Clinical expertise, and 3. The patient’s culture, characteristics, and preferences is not thematised. This chapter uses virtue theory to analyse the task of integration. It launches virtues that correspond to the constituents of evidence-based practice in psychology. These are: 1. Epistemic virtues, 2. Self-reflexive virtues, and 3. Relational virtues. It launches, moreover, practical wisdom as the overarching practical virtues that is needed for the very act of integration.
