Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 369-373 , April 2008

State Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice for Youths, Part I: Responses to the State of the Evidence

  • ERIC J. BRUNS, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Dr. Eric Bruns, Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy, University of Washington School of Medicine, 2815 Eastlake Avenue E, Seattle, WA 98102;.
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  • KIMBERLY EATON HOAGWOOD, Ph.D.
    • ,
  • John D. Hamilton, M.D., M.Sc. (Assistant Editor)

,Accepted 30 November 2007.

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 We acknowledge members of the Child and Family Evidence-Based Practice Consortium, especially those who contributed descriptions of their states' efforts: Lynne Marsenich and Bill Carter (California), David Bernstein (Colorado), Eric Daleiden (Hawaii), Kay Hodges and Jim Wotring (Michigan), and Patrick Kanary (Ohio). Thanks also to Erik Janson for assisting in literature review and manuscript preparation.Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)62391-1

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e31816485f4

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 369-373 , April 2008

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