This article presents the authors' response to Pignotti and Mercer's "Holding Therapy and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Are Not Supported and Acceptable Social Work Interventions." Pignotti and Mercer offer a very detailed, informative, scholarly, and eloquently expressed concern about the merit of holding therapies and the danger of offering them to the mental health professions as useful. The authors argue that the holding therapies described by Pignotti and Mercer have never qualified for such classification, and they are unlikely to meet the human subject protection obligations of the institutional review boards that oversee the empirical validation of therapies. The authors' survey of research studies (SRS) provided Pignotti and Mercer an opportunity to reinforce past concerns of scholars, therapists, individual and family clients, professional organizations, and attorneys. They believe that, although their SRS is being used to provide a valuable "teachable moment," using it as such is a stretch. The intent of their SRS was to cull the literature on interventions with foster children and to subject those in the juried literature to a test of merit based on scientific rigor.