Achieving Implementation and Exchange

Lawrence Palinkas is the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and Chair of the Department of Children, Youth and Families in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California.A medical anthropologist, Dr Palinkas conducts research on mental health services, global health and health disparities, implementation science, research-practice partnerships, and the sociocultural and environmental determinants of health and health-related behaviour.

• IntroductionThe need for evidence-based practiceUnderstanding and reducing the gapEBP implementation in child welfare and child mental healthSocial networks and EBP implementationUse of research evidence and EBP implementationLocal models of EBP implementationResearch-practice-policy partnershipsCultural exchange and EPB implementationA transactional model of implementing EBP

“Using compelling examples of programmes and associated research, this book takes us through the processes needed to implement high quality services in child welfare settings. Researchers, administrators, policy-makers, practitioners and students alike will benefit from its honest look at what it takes to deliver a service effectively." Aron Shlonsky, Monash University