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Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents: Strategies, Strengths, and Limitations

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Facilitating Pathways

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Evidence-based treatments refer to interventions that have empirical research on their behalf. The evidence refers to rigorous tests that the treatments, relative to various control or other treatment conditions, produce therapeutic change. In the context of psychotherapy, there have been separate and somewhat independent efforts to identify evidence-based treatments by different professional organizations and committees spanning different countries (e.g., Evidence Based Mental Health 1998; Nathan and Gorman 2002; Roth and Fonagy 1996; Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures 1995). These efforts have used different terms to delineate such treatments, including empirically validated treatment, empirically supported treatments, evidence-based practice, and treatments that work. The term evidence-based treatment (EBT) is used in this chapter in keeping with a tradition already established in several other areas (e.g., dentistry, nursing, health care, social work, education, psychiatry, and mental health) where interventions are used to produce change in a particular clientele.

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Kazdin, A.E. (2004). Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents: Strategies, Strengths, and Limitations. In: Remschmidt, H., Belfer, M.L., Goodyer, I. (eds) Facilitating Pathways. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18611-0_10

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