From Innovation to Standard Practice: Developing and Disseminating Behavioral Procedures

Developing and Disseminating Effective Psychological Treatments: Science, Practice and Economics

In many countries there is growing interest in the identification, development, and dissemination of evidence based psychological therapies. The cognitive–behaviour therapy (CBT) movement has been particularly successful in developing effective new treatments. It has been suggested this is partly because of the close interplay between theory, experimental psychopathology, and treatment developm...

Disseminating Practice Guidelines to Physicians

Disseminating innovation and best practice in ICT education: the ICT-ed-database

Information and Communication Technology education is a diverse area that is subject to the pressures generated by the changing structure of Information Technology. A project funded by the Australian University Teaching Committee into the nature of innovation and best practice in ICT education found that the dissemination of ideas was an issue. A second stage of that project has responded to th...

Disseminating and implementing evidence-based practice

The inconsistent implementation of evidence-based practice has become a significant concern in the traumatic stress field. The European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) has played a major role in highlighting this issue and has contributed to a number of European initiatives to improve dissemination and implementation. Key initiatives include the introduction of the ESTSS General Ce...

Beyond ‘Funnel’ and ‘Fireworks’: ‘Water Ribbed Balloon’ as a New Metaphorical Approach to Innovation-in-Practice

Product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. One can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. Apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic pr...