Article: Opportunities Arising from Transformation from Treatment as Usual to Evidence-Based Practice

2011

Marian Williams
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Facing a fiscal mandate to transition the vast majority of clinical services to empirically supported treatments (EST), an urban children?s mental health center successfully implemented rapid and dramatic change. In the process, opportunities including enhanced training for staff and trainees, provision of research-based services to children, youth, and families, and leadership roles for clinicians, resulted in an improved system of care and training milieu. Further, the transformed system is enabling the evaluation of EBPP in the context of a diverse client population including low-income, primarily Latino children, many of whom have co-morbid chronic medical illness and developmental disability in addition to complex mental health needs.

evidence-based practice, psychology, children, mental health, empirically supported treatment

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