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Building Evidence‐Based Interventions for the Youth, Providers, and Contexts of Real‐World Mental‐Health Care
Author(s) -
Santucci Lauren C.,
Thomassin Kristel,
Petrovic Lea,
Weisz John R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
child development perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1750-8606
pISSN - 1750-8592
DOI - 10.1111/cdep.12118
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , software deployment , mental health , structuring , psychology , intervention (counseling) , applied psychology , work (physics) , medical education , psychotherapist , computer science , psychiatry , medicine , business , engineering , mechanical engineering , finance , operating system
Efforts to identify empirically supported treatments ( EST s) for youth's mental health problems are valuable, but the descriptor empirically supported does not guarantee that a treatment will work well in everyday clinical use. The voltage drop often seen when EST s move from efficacy studies to clinical practice contexts may reflect limited exposure to real‐world conditions during development and testing. One result may be interventions that are focused more narrowly and are more linear than the clinical practice they are designed to enhance. In this article, we suggest three strategies for building and refining EST s that are robust for real‐world application: (a) designing interventions to fit the contexts of youth treatment, (b) structuring interventions that can be tailored to fit individual youth characteristics, and (c) building programs for nontraditional intervention contexts. In addition, we describe how to develop interventions that are ready for practical implementation: the deployment‐focused model.