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General Readings on Evidence-based Policy & Practice

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1994). Practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with schizophrenia. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 33, 616-635.

American Psychiatric Association. (1993). Practice guideline for major depressive disorder in adults. American Journal of Psychiatry, 150(4, suppl.), 1-29.

American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Practice guideline for treatment of patients with bipolar disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 151(12), 1-36.

American Psychiatric Association. (1997). Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154(12), 1-63.

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 4(1&2).

Corcoran, J. (2003). Clinical applications of evidence-based family interventions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cook, D., & Giacomini, M. (1999).  The trials and tribulations of clinical practice guidelines. Journal of the American Medical Association, 281, 1950-1951.

Corcoran, J. (2003). Clinical applications of evidence-based family interventions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Corcoran, K. (Ed.). (1992). Structuring change: effective practice for common client problems: Lyceum Books, Inc.

Field, M. J., & Lohr, K. N. (Eds.). (1990). Clinical Practice Guidelines: Directions of a New Program. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Gambrill, E. (1999). Evidence-based practice: an alternative to authority-based practice. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services  July-August 1999 v80 i4 p341(1).

Gibbs, L. E. (2003). Evidence-based practice for the helping professions: A practical guide with integrated multimedia. Paific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole-Thompson Learning.

Gibbs, L., & Gambrill, E. (2002). Evidence-Based Practice: Counteragruments to Objections. Research on Social Work Practice, 12(3), 452-476.

Gray, J. A. M. (2001). Evidence-based healthcare (2 ed.). New York: Churchill Livingstone.

Guyatt, G. H., Sinclair, J., Cook, D. J., & Glasziou, P. (1999). Users’ guides to the medical literature: XVI. How to use a treatment recommendation. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group and the Cochrane Applicability Methods Working Group. Journal of the American Medical Association, 281, 1836-1843.

Howard, M. O., & Jenson, J. M. (in press). Clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice in medicine, psychology, and allied professions. In A. Rosen & E. K. Proctor (Eds.), Developing practice guidelines for social work interventions: Issues, methods, and a research agenda. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Howard, M. O., & Jenson, J. M. (1999a). Barriers to development, utilization, and evaluation of social work practice guidelines: Toward an action plan for social work. Research on Social Work Practice, 9,  347-364.

Howard, M. O., & Jenson, J. M. (1999b). Clinical Practice Guidelines: Should Social Work Develop Them? Research on Social Work Practice, 9, 283-301.

Jackson, V. H. (1999). Clinical practice guidelines: Should social work develop them? Research on Social Work Practice, 9, 331-337.

Kirk, S. A. (1999). Good intentions are not enough: Practice guidelines for social work. Research on Social Work Practice, 9, 302-303.

Macdonald, G. (1999). Evidence-based social care: Wheels off the runway? Public Money Management, 19(1), 25-32.

Macdonald, G., Sheldon, B., & Gillespie, J. (1992). Contemporary studies of the effectiveness of social work. British Journal of Social Work, 22(6), 615-643.

Mullen, E. J. (2002). Evidence-based Social Work - Theory & Practice: Historical and Reflective Perspective. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Evaluation for Practice, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.

Mullen, E. J. (2002). Evidence-based Knowledge: Designs for Enhancing Practitioner Use of Research Findings. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Evaluation for Practice, University of Tampere,Tampere, Finland.

Mullen, E. J. (1978). Construction of personal models for effective practice: A method for utilizing research findings to guide social interventions. Journal of Social Service Research, 2, 45-63.

Mullen, E. J. (1983b). Personal practice models in clinical social work. In A. Rosenblatt & D. Waldfogel (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Social Work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Mullen, E.J. (1988). Constructing personal practice models. In Richard. M. Grinnell, Jr. (Ed.), Social Work Research And Evaluation (3rd ed., 503-533). Itasca, Ill.: F. E.  Peacock Publishers.

Mullen, E. J. (2003). Evidence-based practice.Unpublished manuscript, Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mullen, E. J. (2003). Evidence-based Practice & Social Work Professionals: Implications for Social Work's Future.Unpublished manuscript, Verwey-Jonker Instituut, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Mullen, E. J., & Bacon, W. F. (2003). Practitioner adoption and implementation of evidence-based effective treatments and issues of quality control. In A. Rosen & E. K. Proctor (Eds.), Developing practice guidelines for social work intervention: Issues, methods, and a research agenda. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Mullen, E. J., & Streiner, D. L. (2004). The evidence for and against evidence based practice. Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 4(3).

Mullen, E. J. (2004). Evidence-based Practice in a Social Work Context: The United States Case. Helsinki, Finland: STAKES.

Mullen, E. J., Lucas, C., Fisher, P., & Bacon, W. (2004). Clinician and patient satisfaction with computer-assisted diagnostic assessment in community outpatient clinics. In A. R. Roberts & K. Yeager (Eds.), Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome Measures in Health and Human Services. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Mullen, E. J. (2004). Facilitating practitioner use of evidence-based practice. In A. R. Roberts & K. Yeager (Eds.), Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome Measures in Health and Human Services. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Mullen, E. J., & Bacon, W. (2004). A survey of practitioner adoption and implementation of practice guidelines and evidence-based treatments. In A. R. Roberts & K. Yeager (Eds.), Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome Measures in Health and Human Services. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Murray, C. J. L., & Lopez, A. D. (1996). Evidence-based health policy–Lessons from the global burden of disease study. Science, 274(5288), 740-743.

Pawson, R. (2002). Evidence-based policy: In search of a method. Evaluation, 8(2), 157-181.

Pawson, R. (2002). Evidence-based policy: The promise of ‘Realist Synthesis’. Evaluation, 8(3), 340–358.

Proctor, E., & Rosen, A. (in press). The structure and function of social work practice guidelines. In A. Rosen & E. K. Proctor (Eds.), Developing practice guidelines for social work interventions: Issues, methods, and a research agenda. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Richey, C. A., & Roffman, R. A. (1999). On the sidelines of guidelines: Further thoughts on the fit between clinical guidelines and social work practice. Research on Social Work Practice, 9, 311-321.

Roberts, A. R., & Yeager, K. R. (Eds.). (2004). Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome Measures in Health and Human Services. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rosen, A., & Proctor, E. (Eds.). (2003). Developing practice guidelines for social work intervention: Issues, methods, and a research agenda. New York: Columbia University Press.

Sackett, D. L., Straus, S. E., Richardson, W. S., Rosenberg, W., & Haynes, R. B. (2000). Evidence-based medicine: How to practice and teach EBM (2 ed.). New York: Churchill Livingstone.

Sackett, D. L., Rosenberg, W. M. C., Gray, J. A. M., & al., e. (1996). Evidence based medicine: What it is and what it isn't - It's about integrating individual clinical expertise and the best external evidence. British Medical Journal, 312(7023), 71-72.

Sanderson, W. C. (2002). Are evidence-based psychological interventions practiced by clinicians in the field? Medscape mental health: a Medscape eMed Journal, 7(1). Are Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions Practiced by Clinicians in the Field?

Seligman, L. (1998). Selecting effective treatments. Beverly Hills: CA: Jossey-Bass.

Shaneyfelt, T. M., Mayo-Smith, M. F., & Rothwangl, J. (1999). Are guidelines following guidelines? The methodological quality of clinical practice guidelines in the peer-reviewed medical literature. Journal of the American Medical Association, 281, 1900-1905.

Steketee, G. (1999). Yes, but cautiously. Research on Social Work Practice, 9, 343-346.

United States Preventive Services Task Force (1994). Screening for depression. In Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (2nd ed.) (pp. 541-546). Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins.

Wambach, K. G., Haynes, D. T., & White, W. W. (1999). Practice guidelines: Rapprochement or estrangement between social work practitioners and researchers. Research on Social Work Practice, 9, 322-330.

Webb, S. A. (2001). Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work. British Journal of Social Work, 31, 57-79.

Weissman, M. M., & Sanderson, W. C. (2001). Promises and problems in modern psychotherapy: the need for increaded training in evidence based treatments, Prepared for the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference, "Modern Psychiatry: Challenges in Educating Health Professionals to Meet New Needs". Toronto, Canada.

Williams, J. B. W., & Lanigan, J. (1999). Practice guidelines in social work: A reply, or “our glass is half full.” Research on Social Work Practice, 9, 338-342.