| Abstract: | With its promise of enhancing the effectiveness of services, evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) appears to offer much to psychologists, patients, and policymakers. The purpose of this article is to examine some of the key challenges facing psychologists who wish to provide evidence-based treatment services, including how research evidence is used in EBPP, whether the results of the treatment research literature can be generalized to typical clinical practice, and how effective evidence-based treatments are in clinical practice. On the basis of recent evidence-based initiatives and treatment research, there is a solid scientific basis for EBPP, although much more research is necessary on the treatment of relatively mild, but common, clinical conditions and on the transporting of evidence-based treatments into clinical practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
