TOPIC: Empirically-Supported Interventions

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Center Policy & Program Analysis Briefs and Notes
• Addressing Barriers to Student Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base

Fact & Information Resources, Guidance Notes, Practice Notes, Tools for Practice
• About Empirically Supported Therapeutic Relationships
• Guides to Practice: Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment
• Information Resource: Systemic Change and Empirically-Supported Practices: The Implementation Problem
• Information Sheet: Annotated "lists" of Empirically Supported/Evidence Based Interventions for School-aged Children and Adolescents

Introductory Packets
• Attention Problems: Intervention and Resources
• Anxiety, Fears, Phobias, and Related Problems: Intervention and Resources for School Aged Youth
• Affect and Mood Problems Related to School Aged Youth
• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth
• Dropout Prevention
• Social and Interpersonal Problems Related to School Aged Youth
• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools

Newsletter Articles
• Addressing Barriers to Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base (Fall, '00)
• Evidenced-Based Practices in Schools: Concerns About Fit and Implementation (Summer, '07)

Resource Aid Packet
• Substance Abuse

Technical Assistance Sampler
• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Training and Presentation Resources
• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning

Education/School
• At-risk Youth: School-community Collaborations Focus on Improving Student Outcomes
• Doing What Works: U.S. Department of Education
• Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools (Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice)
• Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence (2006)
• Empirically Based School Interventions Targeted at Academic and Mental Health
• Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies
• Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence: a User Friendly Guide
• Outcomes and Research, and Out-of-School Time Program Design (2002) Philadelphia's Best Practices Institute
• Research on the risk factors for early school problems and selected federal policies affecting children's social and emotional development and their readiness for school
• Using Research and Reason in Education
• Using Scientifically Based Research in Schools
• What Do Schools Really Think About Prevention Research?
• What Works Clearinghouse, a project of the US Dept of Education's Institute of Education Sciences

Mental Health
• Adolescent Coping with Depression
• Advancing Evidence-Based and Promising Practices
• "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Decade of the Brain" (NIMH)
• Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health Publication
• "Charting the Mental Health Status and Service Needs of Children" (Recommendations from the UNOCCAP Oversight Board)
• "Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Recommendations for Improvement by State Mental Health Commissions"
• Children's Mental Health: An Overview and Key Considerations for Health System Stakeholders (NIHCM)
• Children's Mental Health: Report of the Surgeon General's Conference
• Coping with Stress Course
• "Data Matters: Special Issue #6" -a publication of the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
• Effective Joint Working between Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Empirically Supported Interventions in School Mental Health- Resource Packet (Center for School Mental Health)
• Empirically Supported Psychological Treatment of Panic Disorder & Agoraphobia
• Evidence-Based Mental Health Journals Publication
• Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatments and Services: Examples of Inform Public Policy
• Evidence-based practice use, training and implementation in the community-based service setting: A survey of children's mental health service providers
• Evidence-Based Practices and Multicultural Mental Health
• Evidence-Based Practices: Shaping Mental Health Services Toward Recovery
• Federal Agencies Could Play a Stronger Role in Helping States Reduce the Number of Children Placed Solely to Obtain Mental Health Services
• A Guide to Beneficial Psychotherapy- Empirically Supported Treatments (APA, Society of Clinical Psychology)
• Innovations in mental health services implementation: A report on state-level data from the U.S. Evidence-Based Practice Project . (2006)
• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• Mental Health and Illness-School Health Nursing Services Role
• Mental Health: Culture, Race, Ethnicity Supplement to Mental Health: Report of the Surgeon General
• Mental Health in High School
• Predictors of Practitioner Self-reported Use of Evidence-Based Practices: Practitioner Training, Clinical Setting, and Attitudes Toward Research
• Preventing Mental Disorder in School-Aged Children: A Review of the Effectiveness of Prevention Programs
• Prevention of Mental Disorders in School-Aged Children: Current State of the Field (2001)
• Preventive Interventions Under Managed Care: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
• Programs that work: "Counselor Care"(Promising Practices Network)
• Rethinking evidence-based practice for children's mental health
• Review of the evidence base for treatment of childhood psychopathology: Externalizing Disorders
• State Plans for Suicide Prevention
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center
• Summary of Recognized Evidence-Based Programs Implemented by Expanded School Mental Health (ESMH) Programs
• Systems of Care: Promising practices in children's mental health
• Treatment recommendations for children and adolescents suffering from posttraumatic stress

Violence/Safety
• Blueprints: A Violence Prevention Initiative (US DOJ Fact Sheet)
• Exemplary and Promising Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools Programs 2001
• First reports evaluating the effectiveness of strategies for preventing violence: Early child home visitation (2003)
• Legal Interventions in Family Violence : Research Findings and Policy Implications
• "Mental Health and Mass Violence: evidence-Based Early Psychological Intervention for Victims/Survivors of Mass Violence. A Workshop to Reach Consensus on Best Practices" (2002)
• Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. University of Maryland Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General

Practice/Policy (including best practices)
• Beyond the Methodological Gold Standards of Behavioral Research: Considerations for Practice and Policy (Social Policy Reports)
• Best Evidence Encyclopedia - Johns Hopkins University Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE)
• Building Services and Systems to Support the Healthy Emotional Development of Young Children–An Action Guide for Policymakers (NCCP)
• Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (2001)
• "Determining What Works in Social Programs and Social Policies: Toward a More Inclusive Knowledge Base" (The Children's Roundtable, The Brookings Institution)
• "Effective Family Strengthening Interventions" (Juvenile Justice Bulletin, US DOJ)
• Evaluating the Relevance, Generalization, and Applicability of Research Issues in External Validation and Translation Methodology
• Evidence-Based Implementation Resource Kits (SAMHSA)
• "Evidence-based Treatments for Children and Adolescents" Virginia Commission on Youth
• Getting To Outcomes (RAND Corporation)
• A Guide To Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) on The Web (SAMHSA)
• Implementing Evidence-Based Practices: Six "Drivers" of Success
• Intervention Integrity: New Paradigms and Applications
• Lessons From Family Strengthening Interventions: Learning From Evidence-Based Practice
• National Registry of Effective Programs (SAMHSA)
• Selecting Research-Based Prevention Programs for Your School
• Seven Activities for Enhancing the Replicability of Evidence-Based Practices
• Social Programs That Work
• Strengthening the Evidence (from the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO)
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practices on the Web
• Summary of Evidence-Based Program Registries
• Top Tier Evidence
• Will It Work Here? A Decisionmaker’s Guide to Adopting Innovations

General
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• An Introduction to Evidence-Informed Public Health and A Compendium of Critical Appraisal Tools for Public Health Practice
• Critical Components of Prevention (Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies)
• Disseminating Evidence-Biased Practice for Children and Adolescents: A Systems Approach to Enhancing Care
• Effective Child Therapy (APA Division 53)
• Evidence Based Practice for Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Treatment
• Evidence-Based Treatment
• Evidence-Informed Public Health and a Compendium of Critical Appraisal Tools for Public Health Practice
• Healthy People 2010
• Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents. (National Institute of Drug Abuse)
• Programs for Teens, Child Trends, What Works Series
• Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research
• Raising Teens: A synthesis of research and a foundation for action
• Risks and Opportunities: Synthesis of Studies on Adolescence
• Translating Research into Practice: speeding the adoption of innovative health care programs
• Using Evidence-Based Parenting Programs to Advance CDC Efforts in Child Maltreatment Prevention - Research Brief 2004
• What Works? Integrating Multiple Data Sources and Policy Research Methods in Assessing Need and Evaluation Outcomes in Community Based Child and Family Service Systems
• What Works and What Doesn't Work in Social Policy? (Social Programs that Work)
• Will it work here? A decision maker's guide to adopting innovations
• "Will the 'Principles of Effectiveness' improve prevention practice? Early findings from a diffusion study" (2002)

• Ad Hoc Committee on Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Disorders of the American Psychological Association (Div. of Child Clinical Psych.)
• Blueprints for Violence Prevention
• California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
• California Healthy Kids Resource Center
• Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence Effective Programs Blueprints
• Center for the Study of Social Policy: Exemplary Early Childhood Programs
• Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health
• Clinical Evidence Homepage
• Evidence-based Mental Health Treatment for Children and Adolescents
• Guide to Community Preventive Services: Systematic Reviews and Evidence-Based Recommendations
• Healthy Teen Network
• Implementing Research-Based Prevention Programs in Schools
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Guidelines Clearinghouse
• National Implementation Research Network (NIRN)
• National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
• Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
• Promising Practices Network
• Research & Training Center for Children's Mental Health
• Research & Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
• Safe and Sound. An Educational Leader's Guide to Evidence-Based Social & Emotional Learning Programs
• Safe, Discipline, and Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel Exemplary Programs
• The Mental Health Association of New York State
• The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
• What Works Clearinghouse
• Workgroup to Evaluate and Enhance the Reach and Dissemination of Health Promotion Interventions (re-aim.org)

• Being an Informed Consumer of Quantitative Educational Research. Olatokunbo S. Fashola; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 85, 2004
• "Controversies and Caveats." Stout, Chris. (2005). In The Evidence-Based Practice: Methods, models, and tools for mental health professionals. Stout, Chris & Hayes, Randy (Eds). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 244-254.
• Diversifying theory and science: Expanding the boundaries of empirically supported interventions in school psychology.   Kratochwill, Thomas R., & Stoiber, Karen Callan . (2000).Journal of School Psychology, 38(4), 349-358.
• Empirically supported treatments (ESTs): Context, consensus, and controversy. Norcros, J.C. (2004). The Register Report, 30, 12-14.
• Empirically supported treatments (ESTs) in perspective: Implications for counseling psychology training. Waehler, Charles A. et al. (2000). Counseling Psychologist, 28(5), 657-671.
• Empirically supported treatments for children and adolescents. Ollendick, Thomas H.; King, Neville J. (2000). Child & adolescent therapy: Cognitive-behavioral procedures (2nd ed.), 386-425.
• Empirically supported treatments typically produce outcomes superior to non-empirically supported treatment therapies. Ollendick, T.H & King, N.J. (2005). In J.C. Norcross, L.E. Beutler, & R.F Levant (Eds.), Evidence-based practices in mental health: Debate and dialogue on the fundamental questions. pp.308-317. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association
• Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Child and Adolescent Depression. Corinne David-Ferdon and Nadine J. Kaslow.(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Vol 31, Number 1.
• Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Child and Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disdorder. Paula(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Vol 31, Number 1.
• Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Wendy K. Silverman, Armando A. Pina, and Chockaligam Viswesvaran. (2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Vol 31, Number 1.
• Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Eating Problems and Eating Disorders. Pamela K. Keel and Alissa Haedt. (2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Vol 31, Number 1.
• Evidence-Based Practice: Breakthrough or Buzzword. Reid, William J., Colvin, Julanne. (2005). In Kirk, S. (Ed), "Mental disorders in the social environment: Critical perspectives. Foundations of social work knowledge." New York, NY, US: Columbia University Press. pp.231-246
• Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents. Kazdin, A.E., & Weisz, J.R. (2003). New York: The Guildford Press.
• Evidence-Based Comprehensive Treatments for Early Autism. Sally J. Rogers and Laurie A. Vismara. (2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Vol 37, Number 1.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Eating Problems and Eating Disorders. Keel, Pamela K.; Haedt, Alissa. (2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1: 32-61.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Child and Adolescent Depression. David-Ferdon, Corinne and Kaslow, Nadine J. (2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1: 62-104.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Barret, Paula M.; Farrell, Lara; Pina, Armando A.; Viswesvaran, Chockalingam.(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1:105-130.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Child and Adolescent Obssesive-Compulsive Disorder. Silverman, W.K., Pina, A.A., and Viswesvarana, C.(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1:156-183.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Children and Adoelscents Exposed to Traumatic Events. Silverman, W.K., Ortiz, C.D., Viswesvaran, C., Burns, B.J., Kolko, D.J., Putman, F.W., and Amaya-Jackson, L.(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1:.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Pelham, W.E., and Fabiano, G.(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1:184-214.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Children and Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior. Eyberg, S.M., Nelson, M.N., and Bigg, S.R.(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1:215-237.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments Adolescent Substance Abuse. Waldron, H.B, and Turner, C.W. (2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1:238-261.
• Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Ethnic Minority Youth. (2008). Huey, Stanley J. Jr, and Polo, Antonio J.(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, (37)1:262-.
• Implementing evidence-based practices for people with severe mental illness. Mueser, Kim T., Torrey, William C., Lynde, David., Singer, Patricia., Drake, Robert E. (2003). Behavior Modification. Special Empirically supported treatments, 27, 387-411.
• Implementing Evidence-based Psychosocial Practices: Lessons Learned from Statewide Implementation of Two Practices. Moser, L.; DeLuca, N.; Bond, G.; and Rollins, A. (2004). CNS Spectrums, 9(12).
• Not a scintilla of evidence to support empirically supported treatments as more effective than other treatments. Wampold, B.E. (2005). In J.C. Norcross, L.E. Beutler, & R.F. Levant (Eds.), Evidence-based practices in mental health: Debate and dialogue on the fundamental questions. (pp.299-308) Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association
• Psychiatry & Mental Health Clinical Management Vol. 1: Empirically Supported Psychological Treatment of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia.  William C. Sanderson, PhD,& Simon A. Rego, MA.  (2000).
• Psychotherapy for children and adolescents: Directions for research and practice. Kazdin, Alan E. (2000).
• Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Developmental Concerns. Weisz, John R & Weersing, Vannessa Robin. (1999). Developmental Approaches to Prevention and Intervention, 9, 341-386.
• Special Section: Developing Guidelines for the Evident-Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent Disorders. Mash, E.J. & Hunsley, J. (Eds.) (2005). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34(3)
• Special Issue: Acceptability Research in School Psychology.  School Psychology Quarterly, 15(2) (Summer 2000).
• Stressing the (other) three Rs in the search for empirically supported treatments: Review procedures, research quality, relevance to practice and the public interest. Weisz, John R. et al. (2000). Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, 7(3), 243-258.
• The essential role of theory in the science of teaching children: Beyond empirically supported treatments. Hughes, Jan N. (2000). Journal of School Psychology, 38(4), 301-330.
• Toward a comprehensive strategy for effective practitioner-scientist partnerships and largerscale community health and well-being. Spoth, R. & Greenberg, M. (2005). American Journal of Community Psychology, 34(3/4) 107-126.
• The role of empirically supported treatments in evidence-based psychological practice: A Canadian perspective. Hunsley, J., & Johnston, C. (2000). Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, 7(3), 269-272.
• Treatment Integrity in Learning Disabilities Intervention Research: Do We Really Know How Treatments Are Implemented?   Gresham, Frank M. et al.  (2000). Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 15(4), 198-205.
• Whatever the problem, the answer is 'Evidence-Based practice'-- or is it? Blome, W.W.; Steib, S. (2004). Child Welfare, 83(6), pp. 611-615.

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