Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Mental health disorders are common in youth, impacting up to 1 in 5 children and adolescents. Typically, mental health difficulties result in impaired functioning and lower quality of life for both youth and their families. Fortunately, there are psychosocial treatments for the mental health needs of youth that have earned the "evidence-based" label. However, these treatments are not widely available, and it is estimated that it can take up to 17 years for them to be transported into community settings. As a result, a new field of dissemination and implementation (DI) science has emerged to address this problem. Dissemination refers to the transfer of information about evidence-based practices to community settings, and implementation refers to active strategies to assist adoption of evidence-based practices in community settings.

Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health is the first book to bring together the world's foremost experts in implementation science and evidence-based practices for youth to provide the latest findings around DI for children and adolescents. Chapters provide comprehensive coverage of the science of dissemination and implementation across contexts, disorders, and international perspectives. This volume will be an essential resource to implementation scientists and scholars, instructors in doctoral-level training programs, and graduate students, as well as policymakers, community mental health clinicians and administrators, school administrators, researchers, and other mental health professionals.

Rinad S. Beidas, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She is a senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute, as well as a fellow in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded Implementation Research Institute (IRI). Dr. Beidas is also an alumnus fellow of the National Institutes of Health funded Training Institute in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH), and the NIMH funded Child Intervention and Prevention Services (CHIPS) Fellowship.


Philip C. Kendall, PhD, ABPP, is Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Dr. Kendall has garnered several prestigious awards including Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the inaugural Research Recognition Award from the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, the Great Teacher award from Temple University, and Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Educational/Training Activities from ABCT.

Part I. Introduction

1. The Promise of Evidence-based Practices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Philip C. Kendall and Rinad S. Beidas

Part II. Background

2. Guiding Theory for Dissemination and Implementation Research: A Reflection on Models Used in Research and Practice
David A. Chambers

3. Measurement in Dissemination and Implementation Science
Enola K. Proctor, Byron J. Powell, and Megan A. Feely

4. Capturing Fidelity in Dissemination and Implementation Science
Sonja K. Schoenwald, Jason E. Chapman, and Ann F. Garland

5. The Role of Organizational Culture and Climate in the Dissemination and Implementation of Empirically Supported Treatments for Youth
Nathaniel J. Williams and Charles Glisson

6. Leadership and Strategic Organizational Climate to Support Evidence-Based Practice Implementation
Gregory A. Aarons, Lauren R. Farahnak, and Mark G. Ehrhart

7. Dissemination and Implementation in Children's Mental Health: Closing the Research to Training Gap
Stacy L. Frazier, Sarah Kate Bearman, Ann F. Garland, and Marc S. Atkins

Part III. System-level Approaches to Implementing Evidence-based Practices for Youth in Community Mental Health Settings

8. Practice-Research Partnerships That Scale-up, Attain Fidelity, and Sustain Evidence-Based Practices
Patricia Chamberlain and Lisa Saldana

9. From experience to experiment: Using state systems as laboratories for implementation of evidence-based practices for children
Erum Nadeem, S. Serene Olin, Allissa Gleacher, Brian Ka Ho Chor, Dara Weiss, Andrew F. Cleek, Mary M. McKay, and Kimberly E. Hoagwood

10. Transformation of Mental Health Services for Children and Young People in England
Roz Shafran, Peter Fonagy, Kathryn Pugh, and Pamela Myles

11. Global Dissemination and Implementation of Child Evidence-Based Practices in Low Resources Countries
Laura K. Murray, Shannon Dorsey, and Eric Lewandowski

12. Building and advancing an evidence-based service system in Hawaii
Brad J. Nakamura, Lesley Slavin, Scott Shimabukuro, and Scott Keir

Part IV. Approaches to Implementing Evidence-based Practices for Youth in Schools

13. Dissemination and Implementation of Empirically Supported Treatments for Anxious Youth in Community Settings
Chiaying Wei, Colleen Cummings, Joanna Herres, Kendra L. Read, Anna Swan, Matthew Carper, Alexandra Hoff, Vijaita Mahendra, and Philip C. Kendall

14. Dissemination and Implementation of Treatments for Disruptive Disorders in Schools
Caroline L. Boxmeyer, John E. Lochman, Nicole P. Powell, Rachel Baden Sherrill, Sara Stromeyer, and Meghann Kelly Sallee

15. Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Public Schools
Jill Locke, Hilary E. Kratz, Erica M. Reisinger, and David S. Mandell

16. Dissemination and Implementation of Cognitive Therapy for Depression in Schools
Courtney L. Benjamin, Kristin Pontoski Taylor, Samantha M. Goodin, and Torrey A. Creed

17. Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS): Dissemination and Implementation of a School-based Intervention
Sheryl H. Kataoka, Catherine DeCarlo Santiago, Lisa Jaycox, Audra Langley, Bradley Stein, and Pamela Vona

Part V. Approaches to Implementing Evidence-based Practices for Youth Using Technology

18. Internet-based Dissemination and Implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Anxiety
Muniya S. Khanna, Connor Morrow Kerns, and Matthew M. Carper

19 Internet-based Implementation: Broadening the Reach of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Early Child Behavior Problems
R. Meredith Elkins and Jonathan S. Comer

Index