“…Given that many of the youths receiving public mental health services appear to have a higher degree of complexity and comorbidity than those in typical research trials (SouthamGerow, Chorpita, Miller, & Gleacher, 2008), one strategy for enhancing the fit between science and service has been to increase the flexibility of EBT protocols, which traditionally prescribe a predetermined sequence and set of practices for a single disorder, to allow providers to make real-time, informed adjustments in response to clinical events that might otherwise adversely affect treatment (Chorpita, Korathu-Larson, Knowles, & Guan, in press). For example, researchers have recommended treatment designs that involve the application of efficacious practices commonly cited within the clinical literature using a data-driven, guiding algorithm that allows for adaptations to the selection and sequencing of practices to address the client's unique needs (Chorpita & Daleiden, 2009;Chorpita & Daleiden, 2014;.…”