Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
INVITED COLUMNS: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICEUnderstanding the Common Elements of Evidence-Based Practice: Misconceptions and Clinical Examples
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COMMON ELEMENTS
Chorpita et al. (2005a) recently introduced a model designed to address some of these issues by employing a new level of analysis. The authors proposed a distillation and matching model (DMM) that describes how evidence-based treatment operations can be conceptualized at a lower order level of analysis than simply by their manuals. Also referred to as the “common elements” approach, this model demonstrates the feasibility of coding and identifying the specific techniques and procedures (e.g.,
CONCLUSIONS
Through the identification of common practice elements across evidence-based manuals and the subsequent development of practice element profiles based on client characteristics, the DMM (Chorpita et al., 2005a) provides a means by which practicing clinicians can identify evidence-based treatments. The DMM addresses many potential barriers to dissemination that have hindered the widespread use of evidence-based treatments by practitioners by encouraging the individualization of treatments based
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Preparation of this article was supported in part by awards from the Hawaii Departments of Health and Education to B.F.C.
Disclosure: Dr. Chorpita is president of PracticeWise, LLC, a private behavioral health consulting corporation. Dr. Becker is a consultant to PractiseWise, LLC. Dr. Daleiden is a consultant to PractiseWise, LLC and Real Time Engines, LLC.