Evidence-Based Practice

DRAFT document of the SAMHSA/RWJ project on evidence-based practices addressing the issues surrounding the importance of evidence-based practices for persons with both a mental health and substance abuse diagnosis.

This website offers a summary of the RWJ/SAMHSA evidence-based practices project, including descriptions of the EBP programs chosen for inclusion in the project. This is a good introduction to the evidence-based practices work in mental health.

Discussion of evidence-based practices in the mental health arena from the perspective of consumers, many of whom feel that there is a risk to consumer recovery and empowerment when evidence-based practices are funded and encouraged without equivalent funding to innovations coming from the consumers themselves.

Discussion paper from Psychiatric Services on approaches to having consumers and consumer advocates in recovery be supportive of incorporating evidence-based practices into practice in the mental health field.

SAMHSA newsletter article describing briefly six evidence-based practices that are effective for persons who experience mental illness and which are the focus of SAMHSA's national project on evidence-based practices. Components of the six Evidence-Based Practices toolkits are similar, but the practices themselves are diverse, and they may be unfamiliar to some practitioners and supervisors in the field today.

SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is currently sponsoring a national project to promote the widespread adoption of six evidence-based practices (EBPs)—treatments that have consistently proven to generate positive outcomes for adults with serious mental illness. Specifically, project teams are working to develop, test, revise, and disseminate comprehensive resource toolkits that will enable practitioners to replicate EBPs successfully and reap the benefits in community settings.