Evidence-Based Practice
Also called: EBP, empirically supported treatment
Definition
Selecting interventions by combining the best available research evidence with the practitioner's expertise and the client's values, preferences and context. All three parts count: a procedure with strong research support that the family will not use, or that does not fit the setting, is not the evidence-based choice for that client.
In plain language
Choosing treatments that research supports, that you know how to deliver, and that fit what the client and family want. All three matter.
Example
Between two well-supported teaching methods, the analyst picks the one the family can run at home, and tracks whether it works.
Not evidence-based practice
Choosing a method because it is popular online, without checking the research or the fit.
See also
Written from
- bacb-ethics-code-2022 — Standards on selecting interventions
Written from the ethics code's intervention-selection standards and the evidence-based-practice literature, in our own words. No text reproduced.
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