Reference:

Weisz, Jensen-Doss, Hawley (2006) Evidence-Based Youth Psychotherapies Versus Usual Clinical Care. American Psychologist 2006, 671-689.

About the paper

This is an excellent meta-analysis of studies that compare Evidence-Based Treatments (EBT) with "Usual Care". Overall, EBT's provide better outcomes than "Usual Care", but what is great about this paper is that it looks in detail at (a) the fact that the differences are actually quite modest (in other words, usual care is probably getting a lot of things right!) and (b) what might be the reasons for EBT doing better, or for not doing much (or at all) better in some respects.

In ways, AMBIT is constructed as a platform for teams to take a more systematic approach to developing and improving their "Care as Usual" - this is an approach that has been referred to as "Treating Usual Care with Care"

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