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Evidence-Based Therapies
Links to mental health resources and information on evidence-based therapies that are reported or demonstrated to be effective.
Blueprints for Violence Prevention
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Programs include functional family therapy, multisystemic therapy, and multidimensional treatment foster care as well as school-based services that serve to improve the mental health and well-being of children and families.
Closing the Quality Chasm in Child Abuse Treatment: Identifying and Disseminating Best Practices: The Findings of the Kauffman Best Practices Project to Help Children Heal From Child Abuse (PDF - 2050 KB)
Chadwick Center for Children and Families & National Call to Action Campaign (2004)
Thoroughly examines best practices for helping children recover from the impact of child abuse including the identification of three best practice therapies.
Empirically Supported Treatments and Promising Practices
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Factsheets describing some of the clinical treatment and trauma-informed service approaches implemented by National Child Traumatic Stress Network Centers with the common goal of reducing the impact of traumatic events on children and adolescents.
Evidence-Based Practice Initiative
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Highlights interventions that work and strategies to implement evidence-based practices in systems of care. Presents diverse perspectives on evidence-based practices from families, leaders of ethnic and racially diverse communities, service providers, researchers, and policymakers.
Evidence-Based Treatment for Children in Child Welfare (PDF – 503 KB)
Stambaugh, Burns, Landsverk, & Reutz
Focal Point, 21(1), 2007
Presents a review of the research evidence for trauma-focused interventions for children and adolescents, aiming to provide guidance about effective strategies for addressing emotional and behavioral problems associated with trauma.
Guide for Child Welfare Administrators on Evidence-Based Practice (PDF - 55 KB)
National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators & Chadwick Center for Children and Families (2005)
Provides a framework and the terminology for understanding the conditions, challenges, and opportunities of evidence-based practice in child welfare.
Implementing Best Practices: Medications, Psychotherapies, and Other Interventions
Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health at Columbia University
List of resources for best practices to promote mental health in children and adolescents.
The National Implementation Research Network
The mission of the National Implementation Research Network is to close the gap between science and practice by improving evidence-based programs and services.
Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
Works to strengthen the empirical foundation for effective systems of care, and improve services for children with serious emotional or behavioral disorders and their families through research, training, consultation, and dissemination activities.
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
Promotes the transformation of mental health care services by increasing knowledge of supports, services, and community-based, family-driven, culturally competent policies based on effectiveness.
The Road to Evidence: The Intersection of Evidence-Based Practices and Cultural Competence in Children's Mental Health (PDF - 856 KB)
National Alliance of Multi-Ethnic Behavioral Health Associations (2005)
Discusses and provides recommendations from the field on policy and research that builds cultural competence into evidence-based practices and includes field-based models (practice-based evidence) in mental health service delivery structures.
Taking Charge: An Introductory Guide to Choosing the Most Effective Services for the Mental, Behavioral, and Emotional Health of Youth within a System of Care (PDF - 2400 KB)
Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (2006)
Provides a blueprint to help youth and families obtain effective services and gives examples of emotional and behavioral disorders most commonly diagnosed in adolescents and the intervention options available for each.
Turning Knowledge Into Practice: A Manual for Behavioral Health Administrators and Practitioners About Understanding and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices (PDF - 1347 KB)
Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc. (2003)
Introduces evidence-based practice to clinicians, behavioral health program leaders, and families.
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