scholarly journals Evidence-Based Research and Practice in Clinical Neuropsychology

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon J. Chelune
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clinical Neuropsychology ◽  
Research And Practice

Understanding the characteristics of professional development programs for teachers’ health and wellbeing: Implications for research and practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 000494412110034
Author(s):  
Lucy Corbett ◽  
Philayrath Phongsavan ◽  
Louisa R Peralta ◽  
Adrian Bauman
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Manual Search ◽  
Australian Education ◽  
Teacher Wellbeing ◽  
Evidence Based Programs

Professional development (PD) provides an opportunity to promote the psychological, social, and physical health tools teachers require to maintain teacher wellbeing. Despite their potential, little is known about PD programs targeting the health and wellbeing of Australian teachers. This study aimed to summarize the characteristics of Australian PD programs targeted at teacher wellbeing, identify gaps in existing PD and make recommendations for future research and practice. Three search strategies, (1) search engine results, (2) a manual search of known Australian education websites, and (3) requests for information from Australian education organizations, were combined to ensure a comprehensive inventory of PD programs was compiled. This study found 63 PD programs promoting health and wellbeing that currently exist for Australian teachers. Of these, only three provided evidence of their evaluation indicating programs are advertised and implemented without evidence of their effectiveness. Future PD should be evaluated with findings of the evaluations reported publicly so evidence-based programs promoting teacher’s health and wellbeing can be recommended and implemented.

Examining Teaming and Tier 2 and 3 Practices Within a PBIS Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 109830072110510
Author(s):  
Rhonda N. T. Nese ◽  
Angus Kittelman ◽  
M. Kathleen Strickland-Cohen ◽  
Kent McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Tier 2 ◽  
Behavior Support ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Positive Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Core Feature

One core feature of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) is a systems-level teaming process for coordinating staff implementation of evidence-based practices and monitoring student progress across all three tiers. Prior research has shown schools that report regular teaming and team-based data use are more likely to successfully adopt and sustain implementation of multi-tiered systems of behavior support. However, more research is currently needed to better understand the various teaming configurations, structures, and practices commonly used by PBIS teams in typical schools, particularly at advanced tiers. For the current study, members of school and district PBIS teams representing 718 schools were surveyed to better understand (a) teaming configurations and practices currently being used in schools implementing PBIS and (b) common interventions that PBIS teams report implementing at Tiers 2 and 3. Survey findings are discussed, along with implications of those results for future research and practice in applied settings.

Beyond evidence-based policy and practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Mike Fisher
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper concerns the impact of social work research, particularly on practice and practitioners. It explores the politics of research and how this affects practice, the way that university-based research understands practice, and some recent developments in establishing practice research as an integral and permanent part of the research landscape. While focusing on implications for the UK, it draws on developments in research across Europe, North America and Australasia to explore how we can improve the relationship between research and practice.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Charles Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Single Subject Research ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Important Position

Single-subject research has historically had an important position in the areas of research and practice evaluation. With the current trend toward evidence-based practice, the emphasis in this chapter is on the demand for and reliance on this practice-based, evidence-building research design to increase in the future. SSD for R is a software package available to help researchers and practitioners analyze single-subject research data. This chapter describes the historical, current, and future uses of single-subject research and the contributions of these designs to both visual and statistical analysis. A brief review of software packages to handle this type of analysis is included in this chapter. Finally, an overview of the functionality of SSD for R is provided.

Current Trends in Treatment Research and Practice

2018 ◽  
pp. 110-142
Author(s):  
Alan E. Kazdin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Psychosocial Treatment ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Treatment Research

This chapter discusses current trends in psychosocial treatment research and clinical practice. The chapter highlights four active areas in which intervention research and practice are changing: efforts to disseminate evidence-based psychosocial interventions, to integrate physical and mental health care services, to develop treatments (transtreatments) that can be used to treat multiple disorders, and to exploit the range of new technologies available (e.g., Internet, apps) as a way of providing interventions. These areas of research are among those most relevant to the goals of this book, namely, providing interventions in ways that can reduce the burdens of mental illness.

Implementation Strategies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron J. Powell ◽  
Krystal G. Garcia ◽  
Maria E. Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Scale Up ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Implementation Barriers ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Effective Strategies

Implementation strategies are methods or techniques that can be used to enhance the adoption, implementation, scale-up, and sustainment of evidence-based cancer control practices into routine care. This chapter defines implementation strategies, presents several taxonomies of implementation strategies that can be used to address multilevel implementation barriers, describes guidelines for reporting and specifying implementation strategies to ensure the efficient generation of knowledge and the replication of effective strategies in research and practice, briefly overviews the state of evidence for strategies, and suggests ways in which they can be carefully developed and applied to address the needs of specific contexts. The chapter concludes by presenting several research priorities related to implementation strategies.

Evidence-based nursing – missing link between research and practice

Pflege ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Thiel ◽  
Kai-Uwe Steger ◽  
Cornelia Josten ◽  
Eckhard Schemmer
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Evidence Based Nursing

Das Konzept evidenzbasierter Pflegepraxis wird mit dem Versprechen importiert, Pflege zu professionalisieren und zu emanzipieren. Anhand von drei Fragestellungen wird diskutiert, ob dies leistbar ist. Die Untersuchung kommt zu folgenden Ergebnissen: Evidence-based Nursing (EBN) ist ein Problemlöseprozess, der über die Sozialgesetzgebung im deutschen Gesundheitswesen Einzug hält. Das Konzept verbindet klinische Erfahrung und die bestmögliche wissenschaftliche Evidenz unter dem Prinzip der patientenorientierten Intervention. Damit wird der Forderung nach rational begründeten, transparenten und ökonomisch vergleichbaren Leistungen entsprochen. Eine Spezifität von Forschung in der Pflege ist die Bedeutung qualitativer Methoden, mit denen die Dimension subjektiven Sinns erfassbar wird. Das Konzept evidenzbasierter Interventionen ist aber unmittelbar nur unter einem normativen Paradigma anwendbar. Daraus ergeben sich Probleme der Adaption, die bei der Einführung von EBN zu berücksichtigen sind. Evidenzbasierte Pflegepraxis fügt sich in moderne Konzepte professioneller Pflege ebenso bruchlos ein wie in aktuelle Visionen zur Reform der deutschen Pflegeausbildung. Zu beachten sind jedoch einige Besonderheiten, die insbesondere die deutsche Pflegepraxis kennzeichnen. Hierzu zählt das berufliche Selbstverständnis vieler Pflegefachkräfte und die erst in den Anfängen stehende angewandte Pflegeforschung. Fazit: Bei sorgfältiger Implementierung kann das Konzept evidenzbasierter Interventionen sein Potenzial zur Verbesserung der Pflegepraxis entfalten. EBN bietet damit auch die Chance, den Rückstand der BRD im internationalen Vergleich zu verringern.

scholarly journals PAACC: A MINDFULNESS-BASED MULTICOMPONENT PROGRAM FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS OF PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S287-S288
Author(s):  
Lauren Hagemann ◽  
Katherine Luci ◽  
Mamta Sapra ◽  
Jyoti Savla ◽  
Lindsey Jacobs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Multicomponent Intervention ◽  
Multicomponent Program ◽  
Qualitative Responses ◽  
Skill Building ◽  
Dementia Education

Abstract Few interventions for family caregivers of persons with dementia (PwD) focus on both dementia care skill-building and the enhancement of acceptance and compassion towards oneself and the PwD. We designed a multicomponent, mindfulness-based 4-session caregiver intervention (Practice of Acceptance, Awareness, and Compassion in Caregiving, or “PAACC”) to reduce burden in caregivers of family members with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) and TBI-related AD. A prospective, randomized trial design is being implemented to compare the effectiveness of PAACC to the well-known, evidence-based REACH-VA intervention. Seventeen family caregivers (Mean Age = 68.71 years; 82% women; 30% had high school or less education) have participated in the trial thus far and provided qualitative responses to acceptability questions. High acceptability was noted for all intervention components of PAACC. Participants completed 95% of mindfulness homework during the study period. A majority also reported practicing spontaneous, informal mindfulness while engaged in daily activities (e.g., going for a walk, cooking). One participant noted incorporating mindfulness in her daily spiritual practice. The majority remarked that PAACC taught them to be more aware and accepting of the PwD’s illness. Others mentioned becoming more aware of which stressors triggered them, and that they were able to avoid arguments with the PwD because of this increased awareness. Overall, our results suggest that this mindfulness-based multicomponent intervention is a promising method for promoting stress reduction for family caregivers of persons with dementia regardless of age, stage of dementia, education level, or rurality. Implications for research and practice will be discussed.

Why, in medicine, evidence is still more important than narratives or values? Or “The importance of being evident.”

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Marie-Caroline Schulte
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Actual Patient ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Do So ◽  
Evidence Hierarchies

The importance of being evident is what counts for medicine. The diagnosis must be evident and the treatment must be based on evidence. If that evidence is and always must be based on statistics, as we have seen, it becomes questionable. Evidence is good when it is robust and when it fits the individual patient. Only then does evidence-based medicine (EBM), make sense and only then the patient can be sure to be treated in the best possible way. EBM, the movement of medicine that is strictly based on evidence which is judged in a hierarchical order, is under scrutiny and heavily criticised, chiefly because it has lost the patient out of its focus. Numbers are more important than the individual diagnosis and treatment is administered according to population-based statistics and not ‘made to order’. Although this criticism is very valid, the solution cannot be to simply replace EBM with something else, but the solution must be to still base medicine and medical treatment on the best available evidence we have, while putting the patient back into focus. In order to do so, it is important to topple evidence hierarchies, to divide EBM into research and practice and to acknowledge that sometimes the statistical best evidence is not the best evidential treatment for the actual patient.

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