Materials from the NIH Conference on Dissemination September 26, 2007
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Thanks to Melissa L. Brodkowski, I’m posting these websites for podcasts and agenda, respectively for what looked like a terrific conference on dissemination hosted by OBSSR. Many social work colleagues and those from other mental health services professions participated. Check out their wisdom via videocasts and podcasts
http://videocast.nih.gov/podcast.asp?14014
The agenda for the event is at http://obssr.od.nih.gov/di2007/agenda.html
Thanks, Melissa, for sharing this with us.
CEBC Fact Sheet on Effective Practices at Highest Scientific Level September 19, 2007
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The California Evidence Based Clearinghouse (www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org) has recently summarized information, across program categories, based on achievement of the highest scientific rating. These six programs are listed on the attached pdf. All of these have a relevance rating of 2 (see below) except Trauma Foused-CBT, which gets the highest rating of 1 (i.e., the program was designed, or is commonly used, to meet the needs of children, youth, young adults, and/or families receiving child welfare services.)
Relevance, 2 - Medium (The program was designed, or is commonly used, to serve children, youth, young adults, and/or families who are similar to child welfare populations (i.e., in history, demographics, or presenting problems) and likely include current and former child welfare services recipients).
I do believe that each of these programs is now undergoing implementation with child welfare populations and this may, ultimately, change the relevancy ratings (but it could also change the effectiveness ratings if these programs are not as successful with child welfare populations as they were under development with other groups).
Leonard Gibbs on EBP and the Detection of his own Metastatic Cancer September 16, 2007
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I recently ”googled” Leonard Gibbs, to get a reference for something I was writing and the first thing that came up was this essay, written with his wife and doctor. He wrote this in response to discovering that he had an unusually virulent form of prostate cancer that had spread to close to his heart and was, therefore, currently inoperable. He observes that if he had followed what he had taught, the process of evidence based practice, he might have prevented this. Here is an excerpt–it’s an unforgettable read, It is titled “Evidence based practice as if your life depended on it.” http://www.uwec.edu/lgibbs/Len_Letter.pdf.
“I have been with my present physician for the past 25 years. He had always been there for me, had listened to all my concerns and had helped me through some very tough times. In fact, I give him credit for saving my life earlier. He has been, and still is, a trusted friend. Unfortunately for me and my family, we missed an opportunity to apply evidence-based practice in a way that might have benefited me and my family. If I had collaborated with him as a partner in my own care, we might have taken action early enough to avoid metastatic cancer.”
I don’t know when it was written, but it must have been recently because he mentions Aron Shlonsky at Toronto, and Aron has not been there for very long. I don’t know Professor Gibbs, except by reputation and writing, but this paper shows what an enormous well of talent and commitment he has. I’m inspired and hopeful for his recovery.
The empirical status of cognitive-behavioral therapy: A review of meta-analyses September 6, 2007
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Dr. Gioia has submitted the following article she thinks will be of interest to the EBP Blog community.
The empirical status of cognitive-behavioral therapy: A review of meta-analyses
