Members of the PracticeWise Community,
The Spring 2017 updates to the
PracticeWise information resources are now available online.
Kudos
We are proud to announce that our
president, Dr. Bruce Chorpita, was recently nominated as a candidate for
president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), an
organization committed to evidence-based approaches to the enhancement of
health and well-being. Voting runs throughout the month of April, so if you are
a member of ABCT, please support Bruce by casting your vote and telling others.
Even if you are not an ABCT member, consider showing your support by visiting
and liking his campaign
Facebook page,
where you can read more about the election (https://www.facebook.com/ChorpitaABCT2017/).
Resource Updates
The PracticeWise Evidence Based
Services Database (PWEBS) has expanded once again. There were not as many
changes in the Strength of Evidence levels of treatment families this period,
but some new families were introduced and a few families achieved new levels.
Here is the brief summary:
Attention
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Parent
Management Training was introduced as a treatment family and achieved No
Support (Level 5).
Autism
The Social Skills treatment family
improved to Best Support (Level 1).
Several variants of cognitive training
approaches were tested but with unremarkable outcomes.
Attention Training was introduced as a
treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
Cognitive Flexibility Training was
introduced as a treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
Working Memory Training was introduced
as a treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
Depression
The Social Skills treatment family
improved to Minimal Support (Level 4).
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Anger
Control was introduced as a treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Parent
Management Training was introduced as a treatment family and achieved No
Support (Level 5).
Mindfulness was introduced as a
treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
Disruptive Behavior
The Problem Solving treatment family improved
to Best Support (Level 1).
The Collaborative Problem Solving
treatment family was renamed to Cooperative Problem Solving to minimize
confusion of this treatment family with a specific treatment program. The
Cooperative Problem Solving treatment family continued to achieve Good Support
(Level 2).
Eating
To address greater differentiation in
studies of family therapy, the treatment family assignments were restructured
with the following effects:
The Family-Focused Therapy treatment
family has achieved Good Support (Level 2).
The Family Therapy treatment family has
achieved No Support (Level 5).
Traumatic Stress
The Exposure treatment family was
reduced from Best Support (Level 1) to Good Support (Level 2). This unusual
change was due to the reassignment of a protocol from the Exposure family to
the Cognitive Behavior Therapy family based on additional information that
cognitive practices were included in the protocol. This did not affect the
strength of evidence level for Cognitive Behavior Therapy but reduced the
evidence replicating the Exposure treatment family.
Expressive Play was introduced as a
treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
The Practitioner Guides were expanded to
include a new practice guide for Insight Building: Emotion Identification.
Our collection of online courses has
expanded to include practice courses for:
Active
Ignoring
Activity
Selection
Narrative:
Trauma
Support
Networking
Time Out
We encourage you to check in
periodically on all of our resources and continue to send us your suggestions
and contributions.
Training
Opportunities
We are currently filling spaces for the
following training series:
MAP
Direct Service series (5-day workshop plus 6 months of consultation) in Whittier,
CA the week of June 5 - 9.
MAP Direct Service series (5-day workshop plus 6 months of consultation) in the Los Angeles area the week of June 19 - 23.
MAP
Supervision and Consultation series (2-day workshop plus 6 months of
consultation) in Pasadena, CA on June 12 - 13.
If you are interested in procuring a
training space, please email your request to our support line at [email protected].
Best wishes,
The PracticeWise Team
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