Kendall, Phillip CBeidas, Rinad S2023-05-232000-01-012014-01-012017-08-14Kendall, P.C. & Beidas, R.S. (2014). The Promise of Evidence-Based Practices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. In Kendall, P.C. & Beidas. R.S. (Eds.), Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, (pp. 3-6). New York: Oxford University Press.https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/44408The push for evidence-based practices has dominated the mental health and health care arenas for more than a decade. Conversations among professionals who provide mental health services for youth have included both support and opposition to this position. On the one hand, there is a plethora of discourse indicating widespread support for the need to provide the best available services for youth in need, delivered through the provision of evidence-based practices. On the other hand, there are also opponents to this viewpoint, primarily arguing that evidence-based practices developed in research settings may not fit the context of community providers. A gap already existed between research and practice, and the push for evidence-based practices has further widened the rift between divisions in the mental health field.pp. 3-8, Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health edited by Kendall, P.C. & Beidas, R.S. (Eds.), 2014, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dissemination-and-implementation-of-evidence-based-practices-in-child-and-adolescent-mental-health-9780190628574?q=Dissemination%20and%20implementation%20of%20evidence-based%20practices%20in%20child%20and%20adolescent%20mental%20health&lang=en&cc=usAnalytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and EquipmentChild PsychologyHealth and Medical AdministrationMedical HumanitiesPsychiatric and Mental HealthPsychiatry and PsychologyBook Chapter