Free, Brief, and Validated: Standardized Instruments for Low-Resource Mental Health Settings
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Free, brief, and validated: Standardized instruments for low-resource mental health settings.
Evidence-based assessment has received little attention despite its critical importance to the evidence-based practice movement. Given the limited resources in the public sector, it is necessary for evidence-based assessment to utilize tools with established reliability and validity metrics that are free, easily accessible, and brief. We review tools that meet these criteria for youth and adult...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1077-7229
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2014.02.002