The main purpose of this article and this special section is to encourage greater attention to
evidence-based assessment (EBA) in the development of a scientifically supported clinical …

Limited research on the reliability of cognitive case formulation suggests cognitive therapists
can agree about clients' presenting problems but show poor agreement about the inferential …

Suicide reduction is recognized as a vital focus for mental health clinicians. Clinician
confidence to undertake suicide risk assessment, though poorly understood, appears …

Objective: Child welfare agencies have moved toward standardized risk assessment
measures to improve the reliability with which child's risk of abuse is predicted …

The overconfidence bias occurs when clinicians overestimate the accuracy of their clinical
judgments. This bias is thought to be robust leading to an almost universal recommendation …

From its inception cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has aspired to be evidence-based
(Beck 1976). That is to say, it utilises practice principles derived from consensus among CBT …

INTRODUCTION: The assessment of children at risk of abuse and neglect is a critical
societal function performed by child protection workers in situations of acute stress and …

On January 15, 2009, the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans was a hive of activity
familiar to all who were in attendance at the Society for Social Work Research annual …

​​ New data have come to light through the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association
Archive (hereafter, the Archive). This information is drawn from manuscripts and video …

Confidence has been identified as both a positive outcome of social work education and as
a factor which in excess (defined as overconfidence) can lead to diagnostic error. This study …