TOPIC: Empirically-Supported/Evidence-Based 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
• Bringing New Prototypes into Practice: Dissemination, Implementation, and Facilitating Transformation
• Being Rational and Analytical in Bringing Evidence-Based Practices into Schools
• Bringing Empirically Supported Prototypes/Practices to Schools
• Bringing empirically supported prototypes/practices to schools (powerpoint)

  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

  • Affect and Mood Problems Related to School Aged Youth
  • Anxiety, Fears, Phobias, and Related Problems: Intervention and Resources for School Aged Youth
  • Attention Problems: Intervention and Resources
  • 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
• Barriers and facilitators of implementation of evidence-based interventions in children and young people's mental health care
• An economic evaluation of the costs and benefits of providing comprehensive supports to students in Elementary School
• Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence
• Embracing Scientific Humility and Complexity: Learning "What Works for Whom" in Youth Psychotherapy Research
• Empirically Based School Interventions Targeted at Academic and Mental Health Functioning
• Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies
• Study Confirms the Importance of Children's Early Relationships
• The Implementation of an Evidence-Based Treatment for a Complex Case of School Refusal
• What Works Clearinghouse

Mental Health
• Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Recommendations for Improvement by State Mental Health Commissions
• Effective Joint Working Between Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Evidence-Based Decision Making in Youth Mental Health Prevention\
• Evidence-Based Mental Health Journals Publication
• Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatments and Services: Examples of Inform Public Policy
• Evidence-Based Practices (Part 1): Identifying and Selecting a Practice or Program
• Evidence-Based Practices (Part 2): Implementing a Practice or Program with Fidelty
• Evidence-Based Practices (Part 3): Evaluating Learner Outcomes and Fidelty
• 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 Resource Center
• Examining facilitators and barriers to evidence-based professional practice by mental health providers in schools
• Federal Agencies Could Play a Stronger Role in Helping States Reduce the Number of Children Placed Solely to Obtain Mental Health Services
• Finding Opportunities to Enhance Evidence-Based Treatment Through Provider Feedback: A Qualitative Study
• A Guide to Evidence based Practices
• Innovations in Mental Health Services Implementation: A Report on State-Level Data from the U.S. Evidence-Based Practices Project
• Interventions to Improve Student Mental Health
• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: A National Action Agenda
• Rethinking Evidence-Based Practice for Children's Mental Health
• Review of the Evidence Base for Treatment of Childhood Psychopathology: Externalizing Disorders
• The Importance of contextual fit when implementing evidence based interventions

Violence/Safety
• Exemplary and Promising Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools Programs
• First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Early Childhood Home Visitation and Firearms Laws
• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General

Practice/Policy (including best practices)
• Best Evidence Encyclopedia: Empowering Educators with Evidence on Proven Programs
• Child and Adolescent Evidence Based Practice
• Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
• Evidence2success toolkit
• Evidence based youth programs
• Improving lives through evidence based approaches
• Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
• Updated Inventory of Evidence-based, Research-based, and Promising Practices For Prevention and Intervention Services for Children and Juveniles in the Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, and Mental Health Systems
• What Works in Social Policy? Findings From Well-Conducted Randomized Controlled Trials
• Willing,able --> Ready: Basics and Policy Implications of Readiness as a key component for implementation of evidence based interventions

General
Three Modules from IRIS at Peabody, Vanderbilt
• Evidence-Based Practices (Part 1): Identifying and Selecting a Practice or Program
• Evidence-Based Practices (Part 2): Implementing a Practice or Program
• Evidence-Based Practices (Part 3): Evaluating a Practice or Program
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• Degrees of freedom and degrees of certainty: A developmental model for the establishment of evidence-based youth care
• Evidence-based Practices for Renewal and Recovery
• Effective Child Therapy
• Evidence Based Practice Summaries
• Healthy People 2020
• Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research
• Risks and Opportunities: Synthesis of Studies on Adolescence
• Strategies to Predict, Measure, and Improve Psychosocial Treatment Adherence
• Training to work with children and families: Results from a survey of psychologists and doctoral students
• Updated Inventory of Evidence-Based, Research-Based, and Promising Practices for Prevention and Intervention Servies for Children and Juveniles in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, and Mental Health Systems
• Using Evidence based constructs to assess extent of implementation of evidence based interventions
• Using Evidence to Strengthen Education Investments
• What Works? Integrating Multiple Data Sources and Policy Research Methods in Assessing Need and Evaluating Outcomes in Community-Based Child and Family Service Systems

• The Campbell Collaboration
• Center for Study and Prevention of Violence
• The Cochrane Collaboration
• Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
• Community Engagement and Health Policy
• Education Development Center (Promote Prevent)
• Effective Child Therapy
• The IRIS Center
• Mental Health Association in New York State
• The National Implementation Research Network
• Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
• Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
• What Works Clearinghouse

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