Evidence-Based Practice Manual

SECTION I: OVERVIEW AND CRITICAL ISSUES ; 1. Systematic reviews of evidence-based studies and practice-based research: how to search for, develop, and use them ; 2. Implementing best practice and expert consensus procedures ; 3. Overview of evidence based practices ; 4. Informing health choices: reflections on knowledge integration strategies for electronic health records ; 5. Toward common performance indicators and measures for accountability in behavioural health care ; 6. An overview of focus group interviewing ; 7. Mental illness, substance dependence and suicidality: secondary data analysis ; 8. Making participant observation research matter: a typology based on 12,000 felons ; 9. Computer technology and social work ; 10. Problem formulation, conceptualization, and theory development ; 11. Statistics for human service workers ; SECTION II: RESEARCH ETHICS AND STEP-BY-STEP RESEARCH GRANT GUIDELINES ; 12. Methodological, practical and ethical challenges to inner-city health research ; 13. Qualitative research ethics: thriving within tensions ; 14. The fine art of grantsmanship ; 15. Applying for research grants: step-by-step guidelines ; 16. Setting the stage for accountability and program evaluation in community-based grant-making ; 17. Conducting cost-benefit analysis in human service settings ; SECTION III: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: DIAGNOSIS, INTERVENTIONS, AND OUTCOME RESEARCH ; 18. Concise standards for developing evidence-based practice guidelines ; 19. Health care evidence-based practice: a product of political and cultural times ; 20. Facilitating practitioner use of evidence-based practice ; 21. Implementation of practice guidelines and evidence-based treatment: a survey of psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers ; 22. Measuring skills and reasoning scientifically and critically about practice ; 23. Task centered practice: an exemplar of evidence-based practice ; 24. Treatment evidence in a non-experimenting practice environment: some recommendations for increasing supply and demand ; 25. Evidence-based practice and manualized treatment with children ; 26. Evidence-based treatment for traumatized and abused children ; 27. Treating juvenile delinquents with Conduct Disorder, ADHD, and Oppositional Defiance Disorder ; 28. Evidence-based treatments for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): deciding what treatment method works for whom? ; 29. The implications of controlled outcome studies on planned short-term psychotherapy with depressive disorders ; 30. Evidence-based practice with anxiety disorders: guidelines based on 59 outcome studies ; 31. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of persons with PTSD: an evidence-based approach ; 32. Evidence-based life skills interventions for pregnant adolescents in school settings ; 33. Evidence-based practice with EMDR ; 34. Dysthymic disorder and the college student: evidence-based mental health approach ; 35. Implementing evidence-based practices in Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) clinics ; 36. Evidence-based couples therapy with depressed clients ; SECTION IV: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH ; 37. Epidemiology basics and foundation skills ; 38. Application of remote sensing for disease surveillance in urban and suburban areas ; 39. Establishing collaborations that engender trust in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases ; 40. Prevalence of smoking and cessation among Northern Plains Indians ; 41. Using evaluation data as the basis for a local ordinance to control alcohol and tobacco billboards in Chicago ; 42. Use of random digit dialing to recruit representative population samples: epidemiological case control studies ; SECTION V: CONCEPTUALIZATION, OPERATIONALIZATION, AND MEASUREMENT ; 43. Measuring and evaluating effectiveness of services for families and children ; 44. Risk adjusted mental health outcomes ; 45. Validity and reliability in family assessment ; 46. Statistical methods for estimates of inter-rater reliability ; 47. Elements of consumer based outcome measurement ; 48. Using computer technology in the measurement and prevention of college drinking ; SECTION VI: ASSESSMENT TOOLS AND MEASURES ; 49. Locating measurement tools and instruments for individuals and couples ; 50. Overview of health scales and measures ; 51. Clinician and patient satisfaction with computer-assisted diagnostic assessment in community outpatient clinics ; 52. Psychosocial measures for Asian Pacific Americans ; 53. Crisis assessment measures and tools ; 54. Outcome measurement scale with families of the seriously mentally ill ; 55. Constructing and validating assessment tools for school based practitioners: The elementary school successful profile ; 56. PTSD and trauma assessment scales ; 57. Diagnosis and assessment of comorbid Oppositional Defiance Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ; 58. Assessment measures for sexual predators: step-by-step guidelines ; 59. 'Optimal practice' clinical neuropsychology: a cautionary tale and revisionist proto-model ; 60. Development of the fatherhood scale ; 61. Constructing and validating a specific multi-item assessment or evaluation tool ; SECTION VII: PROGRAM EVALUATION STRATEGIES ; 62. Empowerment evaluation ; 63. The seven secrets of a successful veteran evaluator ; 64. Integrating program evaluation and organization development ; 65. Process vs. outcome evaluation ; 66. Data quality for international service evaluation ; 67. The data whisperer: strategies for motivating raw data providers ; 68. Needs assessment: a step-by-step approach ; 69. Budgeting and fiscal management in program evaluations ; 70. Constructing and using logic models in program evaluation ; 71. Program evaluation: this is rocket science ; 72. The evaluation of training for Leaders of foster and adoptive parent support groups ; 73. Documenting change in addiction treatment systems: a model for evaluation and examples of its use ; 74. Innovative approaches to risk assessment within alcohol prevention programming ; SECTION VIII: PRACTICE-BASED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH EXEMPLARS ; 75. Qualitative evaluation application of reflective practice in direct care settings ; 76. Qualitative research with battered women: a continuum based on 501 cases ; 77. Using qualitative research to enhance practice: the example of breast cancer in African American women ; 78. Qualitative research: cancer prevention in older women ; 79. How family members of the mentally ill view mental health professionals: a focused ethnography ; 80. Death on a daily basis: integrating research and practice in support groups for ICU nurses in Southern Brazil ; 81. Family status and soup kitchen use: some policy considerations based on qualitative research findings ; SECTION IX: PRACTICE-BASED QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH EXEMPLARS ; 82. A cognitive behavioural approach to suicide risk reduction in crisis intervention ; 83. Effects of restorative justice on fear of revictimization: a meta-analysis using hierarchical generalized linear models ; 84. Factors associated with crime on the casino floor: implications of secondary data analysis ; 85. Homicides in older women in New York city: a profile based on secondary data analysis ; 86. Effective outcomes management at Deveraux ; 87. Developing treatment programs for drug courts and evaluating effectiveness ; 88. Application of logic models in rural program development ; 89. Amplifying performance measurement literacy: reflections from the Appalachian Partnership for Welfare Reform ; 90. HIV prevention: evidenced-based practice with infrastructure support ; 91. Community reintegration pre-release research exemplar: applying theory to practice-based research ; 92. Principles, practices and findings of the St. Louis vonundrum: a large-scale field experiment with anti-social children ; 93. Measuring police and citizen perceptions of police power in Newark, New Jersey ; 94. The role of families in buffering stress in persons with mental illness: a correlational study ; 95. Cognitive rehabilitation and neuronal plasticity: research on the effectiveness of quantitative EEG biofeedback ; SECTION X: ESTABLISHING, MONITORING AND MAINTAINING QUALITY AND OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT ; 96. Framework for institutionalizing quality assurance ; 97. Application of quality management methods for preventing an adverse event: the case of falls in hospitals ; 98. Establishment and utilization of balanced scorecards ; 99. Strengthening practice through results management ; 100. Measuring clients perception as outcome measurement ; 101. Social work role in disease management ; 102. Establishing benchmark programs within addictions treatment ; 103. Establishment of quality programming ; SECTION XI: EPILOGUE ; 104. The clinical utility of mental health research: bridging the present to the future ; APPENDICES ; Internet resources on research and evaluation in healthcare and human service settings ; Glossary