of Phoenix, provide pediatricians and psychologists with
empirically supported treatments for common children's mental health and medical problems: disruptive behavior, anxiety and depression, habit disorders like tics and thumbsucking, sleep disorders, encopresis, nocturnal enuresis, pain, and adherence to medical regimens.
These complementary approaches include (a) conducting systematic reviews to identify
empirically supported treatments, (b) using methods other than systematic reviews to summarize evidence, and (c) considering research for different types of "treatments" as evidence.
The usual clinical protocol involved contacting only those patients who tested positive for an STI but who were not treated
empirically in the PED.
General Principles and
Empirically Supported Techniques of Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
As Ruscio and Holohan (2006) discuss, there may be times when idiosyncratic aspects of a case necessitate the need for modifications to an
empirically supported treatment.
This is the kind of evidence that
empirically based practice demands in support of a chosen intervention; the intervention is specific and reproducible, and the outcomes are discrete and measurable.
Although homesickness is an ancient phenomenon, no preventive interventions have yet been
empirically tested.
Moreover, ID was decisively debunked as a scientific theory--it invokes supernatural causes; it has not generated one hypothesis that is
empirically testable; it is not supported by one single peer-reviewed publication; it neglects plausible naturalistic explanations of phenomena, like blood-clotting; and its "positive argument" is a weak argument by analogy.
After examining standard approaches to measuring socioeconomic status, and their flaws, one group of researchers concludes that "health research could be improved significantly with a more conceptually and
empirically sound approach.
It suggests that the idiographic vision inherent in functional analysis may point at an alternative avenue for psychotherapy outcome research that is entirely different from those on
empirically supported treatments and
empirically supported relationships, and that this third direction may shed more light on the question as to what determines therapeutic change.
In the absence of
empirically supported approaches to the improvement of academic achievement, school counselors should choose interventions that seem to be logically related to the problem being addressed.
It provides real estate lenders and risk managers a Basel-compliant,
empirically validated commercial real estate risk management solution.
Strategies based on monetary control are critically linked to the relationship between money and inflation, which has been shown
empirically to be a weak tool in terms of the relevant time frames.
He shows
empirically that idiosyncratic volatility is indeed large enough for GDP volatility.
Despite all evidence of their historically factual origins, the represented rooms can hardly be
empirically reconstructed.