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01-03-2010 | Original Paper

Closing the Research to Practice Gap in Children’s Mental Health: Structures, Solutions, and Strategies

Authors: Peter S. Jensen, Michael Foster

Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Issue 1-2/2010

Abstract

Failure to apply research on effective interventions spans all areas of medicine, including children’s mental health services. This article examines the policy, structural, and economic problems in which this gap originates. We identify four steps to close this gap. First, the field should develop scientific measures of the research-practice gap. Second, payors should link incentives to outcomes-based performance measures. Third, providers and others should develop improved understanding and application of effective dissemination and business models. Fourth, efforts to link EBP to clinical practice should span patient/consumers, providers, practices, plans, and purchasers. The paper discusses each of these in turn and relates them to fundamental problems of service delivery.

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Title: Closing the Research to Practice Gap in Children’s Mental Health: Structures, Solutions, and Strategies
Authors: Peter S. Jensen
Michael Foster
Publication date: 01-03-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research / Issue 1-2/2010
Print ISSN: 0894-587X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-010-0286-z

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