Evidence-Based Practice Interventions

On this page you will find a select number of evidence-based practices. Expand each section to learn about specific treatment programs. Treatments are grouped by the diagnoses they are most often used to treat, but many can be used for multiple diagnoses.

For Information on the DSM-5 and diagnostic criteria please visit the American Psychiatric Association.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

HeartMath: Coherence Training in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA)

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Substance Use Disorders

Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA)

Anxiety

Borderline Personality Disorder

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) – Also used to treat eating disorders, substance use disorders and suicidality.

Conduct Disorder and other Behavioral challenges

Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)

Depression

Eating Disorders

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Grief and Loss

Real Life Heroes (RLH) – also used to treat PTSD.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – also used to treat depression.
Building Confidence – can also be used with anxiety.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) – also used to treat depression.
Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT) – also used for anxiety and depression.

Tourette Syndrome

Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT)

Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma/PTSD

EMDR

Anxiety

Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents (PE-A) - also used for PTSD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Parenting with Love and Limits (PLL) – also used for conduct disorder, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, depression, suicidality, and oppositional defiant disorder.

Anxiety

Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) – also used for depression and suicidality.
Cool Kids Child and Adolescent Anxiety Management Program (Cool Kids)

Bipolar – Many of these are also used to treat conduct disorder.

Family-Focused Treatment for Adolescents (FFT-A)
Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) - Adolescents(TFCO-A) and Preschoolers (TFCO-P) – can also be used for grief and loss.
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) – also used with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) – also used with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, depression, suicidality, grief and loss, oppositional defiant disorder, and psychotic disorders.
Multi-Family Psychoeducational Psychotherapy (MF-PEP) – can also be used for depression. Can be used with individual families or in multi-family groups.

Conduct Disorder

Strengthening Families Program
Dare to be You (DTBY) – also used with substance use disorders.
Teaching-Family Model (TFM)
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) – also used with oppositional defiant disorder.
Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
Family Behavior Therapy (FBT) – also used with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and depression.
Familias Unidas Preventive Intervention – also used with oppositional defiant disorder and substance use disorder.
Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) – also used for substance use disorders.

Eating Disorders

The Maudsley Approach

Grief and Loss

HOMEBUILDERS

Native American Specific Family Therapy

Family Spirit – for use with mothers with children 0-3 years old.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) – also used for anxiety.
SITCAP-ART (Structured Sensory Intervention for Traumatized Children, Adolescents and Parents)
Combined Parent-Child Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT) – also used for depression, behavioral problems and other difficulties.
Surviving Cancer Competently Intervention Program (SCCIP)

Substance Use Disorders

Suicidality

Anxiety

MBSR – also used for depression.
Social Skills Group Interventions (S.S. GRIN) 3-5 – also used for depression and autism spectrum disorders

Depression

ACTION
Prevention Program for African American Women (HWFD)
Stressbusters – also includes family education
Interpersonal Psychotherapy - Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST
Grief and Trauma Intervention (GTI) for Children – can also be used in individual settings. Can be used for PTSD and traumatic grief.

Substance Use Disorders

Healer Women Fighting Disease Integrated Substance Abuse and HIV – also used for depression.
Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)
Seeking Safety – also used for PTSD and co-occurring disorders.

MBSR and other mindful and relaxation practices are used to treat:

ADHD
Anxiety
Depression

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) – Also used for conduct disorder and depression.

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Conduct Disorder (CD)

Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI)
Parent Management Training, Oregon Model (PMTO) – also used with oppositional defiant disorder and substance use disorders.
Tuning in to Kids (TIK)

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

Substance Use Disorders

Guiding Good Choices ® (GGC)

Anxiety

Anxiety and Trauma

Psychotic Disorders

Psychoeducational Multifamily Groups (PMFG)

Suicidality

Model Adolescent Suicide Prevention Program (MASPP)

Elimination Disorders

A 2017 study on elimination disorders was recently published reviewing the effectiveness of psychosocial and behavioral treatment for these disorders.

Learning Disabilities

Anxiety and Trauma/PTSD