Sona Dimidjian, PhD, a clinical psychologist, is Director of the Renée Crown Wellness Institute and Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a widely recognized expert on women's mental health; the clinical application of contemplative practices, such as mindfulness meditation; and cognitive and behavioral approaches. She has developed successful prevention and treatment programs to promote mental health and wellness in health care, education, and community settings. Dr. Dimidjian is a recipient of multiple awards and the author of widely cited scholarly papers. She is coauthor of the self-help resource Expecting Mindfully as well as Behavioral Activation for Depression and Behavioral Activation with Adolescents (for mental health professionals).

Introduction: Context, Intention, and Compassion
I. Context and Key Concepts
1. History and Process of Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health, Bonnie Spring, Sara Hoffman Marchese, & Jeremy Steglitz
2. History and Evolution of the NIH Stage Model: Overcoming Hurdles to Create Behavioral Interventions to Improve the Public Health, Lisa Onken
3. The Insufficiently Appreciated Raison d'être of Evidence-Based Practice, Scott Lilienfeld, Lorie Ritschel, Steven Jay Lynn, & Robert D. Latzman
II. Core Components of Evidence-Based Practice
4. Doing Right by Your Patients: What Do Clinicians Need to Know about Randomized Clinical Trials?, Helena Chmura Kraemer & Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil
5. Systematic Reviews in Mental Health, Pim Cuijpers & Ioana-Alina Cristea
6. Clinical Practice Guidelines, Steven D. Hollon
7. Moving Beyond "One Size Fits All," Zachary D. Cohen, Yoni K. Ashar, & Robert DeRubeis
8. The Role of Culture in Evidence-Based Practice, Manuel Barrera Jr. & Felipe González Castro
9. Reaching the Unreached: The Importance of Context in Evidence-Based Practice in Low-Resource Settings, Syed Usman Hamdani & Atif Rahman
10. Clinical Expertise: A Critical Issue in the Age of Evidence-Based Practice, Bruce E. Wampold, James W. Lichtenberg, Rodney K. Goodyear, & Terrence J. G. Tracey
11. Working Smarter, Not Harder: Comparing Evidence-Based Assessment to the Conventional Routine Assessment Process, Eric A. Youngstrom & Ana Van Meter
III. Illustrations of Evidence-Based Practice in Action
12. An Idiographic Hypothesis-Testing Approach to Psychotherapy: Using Case Formulation and Progress Monitoring to Guide Treatment, Jacqueline B. Persons & Lisa Talbot
13. Collaborative Case Conceptualization: A Bridge between Science and Practice, Shadi Beshai, Willem Kuyken, & Rob Kidney
14. Integrating Basic Research into a Phase Approach to Guide Clinical Practice, Bethany A. Teachman & Rachel K. Narr
15. The Practice of Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Multidiagnostic and Suicidal Patients, Chelsey R. Wilks & Marsha M. Linehan
16. Implementing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Treat a Fear of Morphing in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Roz Shafran, Eva Zysk, & Tim Williams
17. Using an Experimental Therapeutics Approach to Target Psychopathy, Emily Kemp & Arielle Baskin-Sommers
18. Sequential Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Rationale and Clinical Illustration of Evidence-Based Practice in Action, Evan Collins, Susan Abbey, Norman Farb, Jonathan Downar, & Zindel Segal
19. Beyond Specialty Mental Health: Rationale and Clinical Application of Behavioral Activation in Primary Care, Samuel H. Hubley, Christopher R. Martell, & Jennifer Carty
20. E-Behavioral Activation in Primary Care for Depression: A Measurement-Based Remission-Focused Treatment, Joseph M. Trombello & Madhukar H. Trivedi
21. A "Real-Life" Biopsychosocial Psychotherapy Case, Christine M. Nezu, Arthur M. Nezu, & Meghan Colosimo
22. Clinical Decision Making in Combined Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy with Complex Clients: Adopting an Evidence-Based Approach in a Partial Hospitalization Setting, Catherine D'Avanzato & Mark Zimmerman
IV. Training, Supervision, and Consultation to Promote Evidence-Based Practice
23. Mental Health Training: Implications of the Clinical Science Model, Robert W. Levenson
24. The Role of the Consultation Team in Supporting Therapists and Preventing Burnout, Charles R. Swenson
25. Why Therapists Need to Take a Good Look at Themselves: Self-Practice/Self-Reflection as an Integrative Training Strategy for Evidence-Based Practices, James Bennett-Levy & Beverly Haarhoff
26. Augmenting Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Alliance-Focused Training: A Research Informed Case Study, Jessica Kraus, Jeremy D. Safran, & J. Christopher Muran
27. Training Evidence-Based Practitioners: Recommendations for the Improvement of Instructional Design and Delivery, Donna M. Sudak & R. Trent Codd III