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Evidence-based treatment research: advances, limitations, and next steps

Kazdin, Alan E.·2011·American Psychologist

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This article highlights the development of evidence-based treatments (EBTs), the accomplishment their development reflects, and the limitations of current variations as a way of providing mental health services and care. Rather than review EBTs, I use the occasion to provide an overview of my work on the development of treatments for children referred clinically for aggressive and antisocial behavior. This work reflects a larger genre of intervention research that has developed treatments for a variety of disorders. After years of research and a healthy list of EBTs, where are we and where do we need to be? It is still the case that most people in need of services do not receive them, and disparities in providing services remain enormous. The vast majority of therapies, whether evidence based or not, use a model of delivery (one-to-one in-person treatment) that is inherently limited as a way of reaching the large swath of people in need of services. Multiple models of delivery of treatment are needed. The article underscores the importance of developing these models of delivery and optimizing that development by understanding better the mechanisms of therapeutic change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

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  • Although evidence-based psychotherapies are numerous, providing them to all who need them remains a persistent problem because trained providers are scarce and unevenly distributed.

    “Despite the proliferation of evidence-based psychotherapies for numerous mental disorders, the delivery of those treatments to those who require them is a perennial challenge, given the shortage and uneven geographic distribution of trained providers (3).”

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Authors
Kazdin, A. E.
Affiliations
Yale University (US)
Corresponding author
Kazdin, Alan E.
Venue
American Psychologist
Published
2011-11
Volume
66
Issue
8
Pages
685-698
ISSN
  • 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
  • 1935-990X
OpenAlex
W2135148675
Cited by
155
References
72
Citations by year
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FWCI
13.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • American Psychologist (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • William T. Grant Foundation
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Rivendell Foundation of America
  • Leon Lowenstein Foundation
  • Yale University
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
Keywords
evidence-based treatment, treatment development, aggression, antisocial behavior, children, access to mental health care, service disparities, intervention research
MeSH terms
Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Humans, Psychology, Clinical, Evidence-Based Practice

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