Abstract This Special Section of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology focuses
on research that extends beyond documenting the efficacy and effectiveness of specific …

How well are we doing, as a field, in generating youth treatments that work and in getting
those treatments to the youngsters who need them? In this chapter, the authors address this …

The central thesis of this article is that advances in psychotherapy research for children and
adolescents are limited, despite the large number of controlled studies and consistent …

Child and adolescent therapy has progressed considerably, as reflected in the number of
controlled studies, their methodological quality, and identification of evidence‐based …

In this commentary on the article by AD Herschell et al (see record 2004-15972-007) we
provide additional detail about the movement to identify, evaluate, and disseminate …

Argues that although pediatric psychology is considered an applied field, relatively little
controlled research is published on clinical interventions in pediatric psychology. The …

After decades of sowing, weeding, harvesting, and winnowing, workers in the field of child
and adolescent treatment research have produced a bumper crop. There are now scores of …

Schools are an ideal setting for treatment implementation because they are immediately
located in the clients' community, and are familiar to and often trusted by parents and …

Discusses issues related to the identification of psychosocial interventions for children that
have demonstrated efficacy. Recent debate concerning differences between clinical trials …

This introduction to the Second Special Issue on Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments
for Children and Adolescents provides background information on the development of this …