Why psychologists need to base treatment recommendations on scientific evidence
Subtitle: methodologies for intervening with disruptive adolescents
By: Brian Flynn, Sonja Hershfield, Keith Topping ; with a foreword by Tom McIntyre
Contributors: Hershfield, Sonja; Topping, Keith J.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780773437753
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : using the evidence base to improve practice and policy; title: Finding the evidence base : a review of the literature; title: A meta-analysis and best-evidence synthesis of interventions; title: Use of the evidence base in public school system : a survey of school psychologists; title: Successfully developing independence : self-management and self-monitoring interventions; title: Bridging the gap : evidence-based and non-evidence based interventions; title: Our answers to the research questions; title: Implementing interventions for disruptive adolescents : the role of the educational/school psychologist and other professionals; title: Implications for researchers : the way forward; title: Implications for practitioners and policy makers : a blueprint to improve service delivery.