Evidence Based Practices

Arizona Clinical Guidance Documents The Arizona Department of Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health Services has researched and published several Clinical Guidance Documents to assist behavioral health providers in Arizona’s public behavioral health system. These documents are known as Clinical Practice Guidelines, Practice Improvement Protocols (PIPs), and Technical Assistance Documents (TADs). Link to website

Best Practices in Addiction Treatment: A Workshop Facilitator's Guide This step-by-step guide will assist you in developing and implementing a "Best Practices in Addiction Treatment Workshop." This workshop model provides treatment practitioners with information about the value of using evidence-based practices in their treatment design. The Powerpoint Presentations and workshop handouts accompany the 120-page manual. These materials are available only by download. View the BP Manual

National Implementation Research Network The National Implementation Research Network is located at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, a part of the University of South Florida.  The mission of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) is to close the gap between science and service by improving the science and practice of implementation in relation to evidence-based programs and practices.  Their website contains many publications of interest. One publication in particular,  Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature, contains the most current review of the literature on implementing evidence-based practices, to-date. website: http://nirn.fmhi.usf.edu/aboutus/01_whatisnirn.cfm

National Voluntary Consensus Standards for the Treatment Substance Use Conditions: Evidence-Based Treatment Practices With the understanding that consensus on effective practices can focus the development of measures of quality, the National Quality Forum with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation undertook this project as one step to address the need for performance measures for the treatment of substance use conditions. The project is intended to enhance the adoption of NQF-endorsed evidence-based practices for patients with substance use conditions by focusing on the practices for which the evidence is strongest and moste accepted and the most likely to have significant impact on improving care. Click here to download the PDF. website: http://www.qualityforum.org/pdf/reports/sud/sudexesummary.pdf

NIDA/SAMHSA-ATTC Blending Initiative Products The blending of resources, information, and talent are all goals of a landmark initiative developed in 2001 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). This Blending Initiative is designed to meld science and practice together to improve drug abuse and addiction treatment. As NIDA identifies specific research practices as ready for use by the field at large, a NIDA/SAMHSA-ATTC team develops a product for introducing particular research findings using a number of different mechanisms for effective adoption within communities, such as trainings, self-study programs, workshops, and distance learning opportunities. Current available products are: Buprenorphine Treatment: A Training for Multidisciplinary Addiction Professionals Buprenorphine Dextoxification Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Success S.M.A.R.T. Treatment Planning Utilizing the Addiction Severity Index (ASI): Making Required Data Collection Useful

Resource Guide & Literature Review for Best and Promising Mental Health Practices Washington Institute for Mental Illness at Washington State University in Spokane developed (under contract with Washington State Department of Social & Health Services, Mental Health Division Research & Training)a Resource Guide & Literature Review for Best and Promising Mental Health Practices for special populations. Their site presents these findings and serves as a resource to families and professionals. Link to website

Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT) This site is operated by IRETA to provide the latest information regarding resources, training events, and news updates in reference to Pennsylvania's SBIRT initiative. There are a variety of clinical tools on this site that assist in brief interventions. Link to website

Turning Knowledge Into Practice: A Manual for Behavioral Health Administrators and Practitioners About Understanding and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices This manual has been developed to provide a practical approach to moving the mental health field forward. It is written with specific audiences in mind, clinicians and administrators in provider organizations and their chief partners. The manual is general enough to provide a broad perspective of how to move evidence-based practices into everyday use, and is detailed enough to be useful to those who make change happen regardless of the the area of human services. Download the EBP Manual

VA Clinical Practice Guidelines for Substance Use Disorders Guidelines, as generic tools to improve the processes of care for patient cohorts, serve to reduce errors, and provide consistent quality of care and utilization of resources throughout the system. Guidelines also are cornerstones for accountability and facilitate learning and the conduct of research. The guidelines on this site are those endorsed by VHA's National Clinical Practice Guidelines Council. Link to Guidelines

A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction This manual focuses on cognitive-behavioral coping skills treatment (CBT) as a short-term, focused approach to helping cocaine-dependent individuals become abstinent from cocaine and other substances. website: http://www.drugabuse.gov/TXManuals/CBT/CBT1.html

Anger Management "Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual" is a SAMHSA/CSAT publication that helps counselors teach anger management techniques in a group setting through a 12-week cognitive behavioral intervention (participants use the accompanying workbook). The manual describes the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger control plans. Counselor Manual

Anger Management 2 "Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: Participant Workbook" provides worksheets and homework assignments using the core concepts of the 12-week group cognitive behavioral therapy provided in the accompanying manual. Anger Management Participant Workbook

Cannabis Youth Treatment Series, Vols. 1 - 5 The five-volume Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Series for substance abuse treatment professionals provides a unique perspective on treating adolescents for marijuana use. These volumes present effective, manual-based treatment for use with teens and their families. website: http://www.kap.samhsa.gov/products/manuals/cyt/index.htm

Counseling Manuals for Special Interventions Texas Christian University offers counseling manuals which may be downloaded at no cost from the IBR Web site. See the “Downloads” button at their website. Specific titles are: Approaches to HIV/AIDS Education in Drug Treatment (1994; 187 pp.) Mapping New Roads to Recovery: Cognitive Enhancements to Counseling (1993; 131 pp.)Partners in Parenting (1999, 294 pp.) Straight Ahead: Transition Skills for Recovery (1993; 193 pp.) Time Out! For Me: An Assertiveness & Sexuality Workshop for Women (1994; 210 pp.) Time Out! For Men: A Communication Skills & Sexuality Workshop for Men (1996; 230 pp.) website: http://www.ibr.tcu.edu/pubs/trtmanual/manuals.html

Counselor's Treatment Manual: Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People With Stimulant Use Disorders This treatment manual contains step-by-step instructions for conducting individual and group sessions in an outpatient setting with clients who are dependent on stimulants. Session topics focus on early recovery skills, relapse prevention skills, and social support. Information for the counselor includes an introduction to the Matrix approach, the role of drug testing, and strategies for handling difficult situations in group settings. Session objectives, talking points, and client information that make up the Client’s Handbook are reproduced in the Counselor’s Manual. Matrix Manual

NIAAA COMBINE Manuals Two manuals are available for order (not available in full text on-line). Volume 1-Combined Behavioral Intervention Manual: A Clinical Research Guide for Therapists Treating People With Alcohol Abuse and Dependence, 340 pp. NIH Pub. No. 04-5288, 2004. This manual highlights the use of Combined Behavioral Intervention, an intensive treatment that combines several successful features from previously evaluated interventions. It is suitable for delivery by trained psychotherapists working in specialized alcoholism treatment facilities. Volume 2-Medical Management Treatment Manual: A Clinical Research Guide for Medically Trained Clinicians Providing Pharmacotherapy as Part of the Treatment for Alcohol Dependence, 132 pp. NIH Pub. No. 04-5289, 2004. This manual describes the use of medical management and brief counseling sessions to enhance medication adherence and abstinence from alcohol. This brief session therapy might be suitable for delivery in primary care settings. website: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/COMBINE.htm

NIAAA Project Match Series Manuals The manuals in this series are the result of the collaborative efforts of the Project MATCH investigators and are used as guides by the therapists in the trial. They are presented to the alcohol research community as standardized, well-documented intervention tools for alcoholism treatment research. The manuals are provided to the public to permit replication of treatment procedures employed in Project MATCH. Manual titles include: Motivational Enhancement Therapy; C-B Coping Skills; Improving Compliance with Alcoholism Treatment, and more. website: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/match.htm

NIDA Manual 1 - A Cognitive Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction This manual details cognitive-behavioral coping skills treatment (CBT), which is a short-term, focused approach to helping cocaine-dependent individuals become abstinent from cocaine and other drugs. NIDA website

NIDA Manual 2 - A Community Reinforcement Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction The treatment outlined in this manual integrates a community reinforcement approach (CRA), originally developed as an effective treatment for alcohol dependence (Myers and Smith 1995), with an incentive program (Vouchers) wherein patients can earn points exchangeable for retail items by remaining in treatment and cocaine abstinent. NIDA website

NIDA Manual 3 - An Individual Drug Counseling Approach to Treat Cocaine Addiction: The Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study Model This manual is intended as a guide for the individual treatment of cocaine addiction by addiction counselors. The counseling model described here was developed originally for use in the Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study (Mercer and Woody 1992) sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This model was based on the counseling in the outpatient, drug-free program in the Addiction Recovery Unit and in the methadone maintenance program (Woody et al. 1977), which are both part of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. NIDA website

NIDA Manual 4 - Drug Counseling for Cocaine Addiction: The Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study Manual This manual details a Group Drug Counseling Approach. The manual can be read on-line or downloaded in a PDF file from the NIDA website. NIDA website

NIDA Manual 5 - Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Adolescent Drug Abuse This manual introduces counselors to concepts that are needed to understand the family as a vital context within which adolescent drug abuse occurs. It also describes strategies for creating a therapeutic relationship with families, assessing and diagnosing maladaptive patterns of family interaction, and changing patterns of family interaction from maladaptive to adaptive. Treatment Manual

Database: Evidence-Based Practices for Treating Substance Use Disorders The EBP Substance Abuse Database is one tool to help treatment providers make informed decisions about which science-based practices are most appropriate in which circumstances and for which individuals. EBP Database

Evidence-Based Practice from The Center @ HSRI The Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Program supports the rigorous scientific evaluation of behavioral health interventions, and the dissemination and implementation of interventions that have strong evidence of effectiveness. Website

National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) Adds Information on Former Model Programs Initiative to Web Site NREPP's new web site features a searchable database with up-to-date, reliable information on the scientific basis and practicality of interventions. NREPP greatly expands SAMHSA's efforts to help local organizations make informed decisions about evidence-based interventions for prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. Updated summaries for programs previously labeled as model programs will be found under the "Find Interventions" tab of the NREPP Web site after they are reviewed under the current NREPP procedures.  SAMHSA is also providing the ability to search programs previously labeled as effective and promising. Under "Legacy Programs." Web site visitors can browse an alphabetical listing of the 86 effective or promising programs and search based on specific topics, areas of interest, or populations. NREPP: SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices   website: http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov

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