Providing the Evidence for Evidenced-Based Practice

Exploring the Use of the Interactive Systems Framework to Guide School Mental Health Services in Post‐disaster Contexts: Building Community Capacity for Trauma‐Focused Interventions

“…Schools and more specifically, school mental health (SMH) programs have emerged as a critical force for shoring the gap between youth mental health needs and intervention accessibility. EBPs are commonly defined by approaches firmly based on the most recent advances in psychological research and theory (see Frick 2007) and are characterized as the most effective and empirically supported practices available (Splett and Maras 2011). To ensure high quality of these services, schools have been encouraged to implement evidence based practices (EBPs).…”

Editorial: Advancing Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

“…Two things that I took from this experience will be reflected in this editorial. First, I learned to be a bit more circumspect (i.e., humbled) in my view of how much impact an editor can have on the field and even on a journal (Frick 2007). The ability to significantly advance knowledge primarily depends on the quality, work, and professionalism of the scientists in the field, who conduct the research that will hopefully find its way to the journal pages.…”