Synopses & Reviews
All mental health and addiction practitioners want to provide their patients with the most effective treatment available. But with this brings the challenge of wading through an overwhelming amount of complex scientific research. Here, a trio of distinguished scientist-practitioners provide a concise, practical, user-friendly guide designed to assist mental health and addiction practitioners in accessing, interpreting, and applying evidence-based practices (EBP). The Clinician's Guide is a manual that instructs on how to ask the right questions, how to access and appraise the best available research, how to translate that research into practice, how to integrate that research with clinician expertise and patient characteristics, how to evaluate the entire enterprise, how to attend to ethical considerations, and how to move the EBP movement forward by teaching it to others. No book covers EBPs in mental health research as concisely and accessibly as the Clinician's Guide. Although EBPs rely heavily on scientific research, this book is written for busy practitioners and students. Pocket-sized and paperback with reader-friendly graphics, summaries, and a glossary of essential terms, this book is designed for convenience and ease of use. An accompanying CD features expanded content, interactive examples, and hyperlinked references. The Clinician's Guide does not merely explain and discuss EBPs, but shows how to apply them to better serve patients. Containing numerous practical examples and three realistic and representative case vignettes, the Clinician's Guide illustrates the real-life application of EBPs.
Review
". . . an excellent primer. The publishing of this book could not have come at a better time. As intended, this guidebook serves as a fairly comprehensive 'how-to' manual of EBPs. The book includes a wealth of information about EBPs for both neophytes and experienced therapists." --PsycCritiques
"The ability to critically review the research is essential for optimizing
patient care. This book provides a good introduction to this process and
maintains a level of sophistication that is both helpful and reasonable for
students, paraprofessionals, and other non-research-based disciplines.
Individuals with a strong research background (e.g., PhDs) will not miss
anything by leaving this book on the shelf."--Doody's Health Sciences Review
"This book, written by leaders in our field, articulates and synthesizes EBP in a manner that is very accessible to the practicing clinician. For those clinicians in particular who have doubts about the whole concept, this book will be extremely valuable in forging a path to EBP that will be compatible with the vicissitudes of practice. Nothing else like it exists."
-- David H. Barlow, PhD
Synopsis
All mental health and addiction practitioners want to provide their patients with the most effective treatments. But with this comes the challenge of wading through the overwhelming amount of scientific research and integrating it with clinical expertise and patient values.
Here, a trio of distinguished scientist-practitioners provide a concise, user-friendly guide to assist practitioners in implementing evidence-based practices (EBP).
Learn the core skills for conducting evidence-based practice through AAA TIE:
· Ask a specific, clinical question
· Access the best available research
· Appraise critically that research evidence
· Translate that research into practice with a particular patient
· Integrate the clinician's expertise and patient's characteristics, culture, and preferences with the research
· Evaluate the effectiveness of the entire process
No book covers EBPs in mental health as concisely and accessibly as the Clinician's Guide. An accompanying CD features expanded content, interactive examples, and hyperlinked references. The Clinician's Guide does not merely explain EBPs; it gives skills to apply them to better serve patients and improve outcomes. Containing numerous practical examples and following three case vignettes throughout, the Clinician's Guide teaches you how to actualize EBPs in your own practice.