The Second Special Issue on Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents: A 10-Year Update

Abstract

This introduction to the Second Special Issue on Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents provides background information on the development of this 10-year update and explains how this issue expands on the initial special issue on “empirically supported psychosocial treatments” published in 1998. The introduction also provides a summary of the contents of the present issue and the information covered in the articles contained herein. Also summarized are the criteria used to evaluate the level of evidence for each treatment, as well as the criteria used to evaluate the methodological rigor of the studies that are reviewed. The introduction concludes with comments about the advances that have been made in the past decade, with the hope that this second special issue will serve to stimulate further research and expansion of the evidence base for child and adolescent psychosocial treatments to ameliorate youth clinical problems.

Notes

¹Although this second special issue was the “brainchild” of a past executive committee meeting of Division 53, the comments and positions contained in any of the articles, including this introduction, do not represent any official position of Division 53 or the American Psychological Association.

²Co-editor Stephen P. Hinshaw solely handled the review and editing process of the manuscripts submitted by Silverman and her colleagues.