A new bulletin has been published collecting together the latest documents added to the
Effectiveness Bank. Articles in this bulletin are taken from a special issue of the Psychology of
Addictive Behaviors (http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/adb/25/2/) reviewing research on how to
implement evidence-based treatments.
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WHAT IT TAKES TO IMPLEMENT ALCOHOL SCREENING AND BRIEF INTERVENTION
Why do some attempts to implement screening and advice for risky drinking primary care patients
result in practically no patients being identified and counselled, while in others most those at
risk are captured? Applying a systematic and comprehensive framework to trialled strategies helps
reveal the gaps in implementation efforts.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Williams_EC_4.cab
*new* MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND SYSTEMATIC ATTEMPT YET TO MAP TREATMENT PROCESSES
This review encapsulates the range of treatment assessment and improvement tools developed over
decades by the Texas Christian University, widely recognised as the most comprehensive and
systematic attempt to map the processes involved in treatment and to link these to interventions to
improve outcomes for the client. Best known in Britain are the node-link mapping counselling aids.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Lehman_WEK_2.cab
UPGRADING TO EVIDENCE-BASED THERAPIES
Do attempts to implement evidence-based psychosocial therapies actually lead to the intended
practice changes, and do these make things better for the clients? From this review, most clearly
when the whole organisation is enrolled in the effort and training is bolstered by systematic
continuing supervision and feedback.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Manuel_JK_1.txt
*revised* HOW TO MAKE AFTERCARE THE RULE RATHER THAN THE EXCEPTION
As this review comments, people treated for substance use often remain precariously balanced between
recovery and relapse. Widely seen as valuable if not essential, aftercare is nevertheless more the
exception than the rule. How to reverse that ratio is the question addressed by these leading US
analysts. In the process they touch on a central UK policy issue: should we be aiming to keep people
in low-level extended treatment contact, or for a clean and relatively rapid exit from the treatment
system?
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Lash_SJ_8.txt
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