Clinical and health services researchers seek to discover effective programs, practices, and
interventions to improve people's health. The current paradigm for evidence generation is …

Comments on an article by Aaron R. Lyon and Kelly Koerner (see record 2016-30489-011).
Lyon and Koerner provide us with a user-centered design (UCD) model that nicely …

Background Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based
intervention for youth with posttraumatic stress disorder. An important component of TF-CBT …

Objective Critical gaps exist between implementation of effective interventions and the
actual services delivered to people living with mental disorders. Many technical assistance …

Psychological interventions to treat mental health issues have developed remarkably in the
past few decades. Yet this progress often neglects a central goal—namely, to reduce the …

Objective: Although implementation science has taken hold in many areas of psychiatric
services research, a need remains for developing effective, low-cost interventions for …

Implementation research has been characterized as an emerging science with conceptual,
methodological and educational challenges (Proctor et al. 2009). It has the potential to close …

The founders of AcademyHealth played a decisive role in advancing the health services
field. Some, like Dr. Barbara McNeil, accomplished it through education and training of …

There is interest in and support for activities related to implementation science (IS) at the
National Cancer Institute and the National Institute for Mental Health. Since some of the …

Even when interventions are shown to be both clinically effective and cost-effective within a
system of care, they are rarely sustained beyond the period of external funding. The reason …