Members of the PracticeWise Community,
We are pleased to announce that the Spring 2020 updates to the PracticeWise information resources are now available online. Those updates are summarized below. To learn more about what is new at PracticeWise and the supports we offer during this unprecedented time, see our latest quarterly newsletter.
Our team is very happy to share these new additions to our growing library of tools and resources designed to help you improve lives using science and local knowledge from your practice. We encourage you to check in periodically on all our resources and continue to send us your feedback, questions, suggestions and contributions to [email protected]. Thank you for being a partner with PracticeWise and for helping us to improve health and welfare by strengthening connections between science and practice.
Best wishes,
The PracticeWise Team
Resource Updates
PracticeWise Evidence Based Services Database (PWEBS)
PWEBS has expanded once again from 1,118 papers to 1,165 and from 2,011 protocols to 2,080. That's an addition of 47 papers and 69 protocols! Here is a brief summary of changes and additions to the treatment family strength of evidence levels:
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Anxiety
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Attention Training and Exposure was introduced as a treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
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The Biofeedback treatment family improved to Good Support (Level 2).
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Attention
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The Executive Functioning Training treatment family improved to Good Support (Level 2).
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Joint Attention/Empathetic & Emotional Engagement was introduced as a treatment family and achieved Good Support (Level 2).
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The Parent Management Training and Medication treatment family improved to Best Support (Level 1).
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Autism
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The Joint Attention/Engagement treatment family was renamed to Joint Attention/Empathetic & Emotional Engagement to be more descriptive. As before, it has Best Support (Level 1).
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Depression
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Behavioral Activation was introduced as a treatment family and achieved Minimal Support (Level 4).
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Disruptive Behavior
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The Motivational Interviewing/Engagement treatment family improved to Best Support (Level 1).
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Motivational Interviewing/Engagement and Cognitive Behavior Therapy was introduced as a treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
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Suicidality
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Client Centered Therapy was introduced as a treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
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The Cognitive Behavior Therapy treatment family improved to Minimal Support (Level 4).
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Family Therapy was introduced as a treatment family and achieved No Support (Level 5).
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Traumatic Stress
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The Exposure treatment family improved to Best Support (Level 1).
Practitioner Guides
The Practitioner Guides were expanded to include a new Practice Guide, two guides with major updates to broaden their applicability and reflect the latest evidence, and one with minor updates as well.
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Supportive Listening (New)
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Social Skills (Major Revision)
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Antecedent/Stimulus Control (Major Revision)
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Relationship/Rapport Building (Minor Revision)
Online Courses
Our collection of online courses has expanded to include a new course for the CARE Process.
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