Evidence-Based Practice

At CA, our focus is on interventions that are proven to work -- both in helping our clients live independently, and in reducing the cost to society.  We employ a number of intervention models throughout our clinical work.  These interventions have shown success across the country and are recognized by federal agencies as Evidenced-Based Practices (EBP).

Here is an overview of some of the EBP's used at CA:

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a conversational technique used throughout all of our services in helping clients to make changes in habits.  MI accepts that resistance is a natural feeling and seeks to resolve ambivalence.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a community-based treatment philosophy for those dealing with severe mental illness and homelessness and addictions.  It looks like a "hospital without walls" while helping clients to live independently and achieve employment and other personal goals.

Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) is designed for those with chronic substance abuse addictions. CRA identifies and reduces the environmental factors that reinforce addiction, while promoting the factors that reinforce sobriety.

Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is an approach to help those with mental illness understand their symptoms and effectively manage them.  Clients work through a series of materials that help them develop personal goals while mitigating the effects of symptoms.  IMR is used by our Tikkun team.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a therapeutic approach for clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and suicidal tendencies.  Through DBT, clients become more aware of themselves and situations that cause them stress while discussing how to regulate emotions.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic approach that views thoughts as the basis for feeling and action.  CBT helps clients to explore how thoughts affect feeling, decision, and action.

Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM) is a group-based intervention for women recovering from physical and sexual abuse.  

Seeking Safety is a therapeutic approach that helps people attain safety from trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse.

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intensive family-based intervention for youth with serious delinquency and behavioral health issues that helps the youth and family to address these problems through natural supports and prevent costly and disruptive out-of-home placements.

Incredible Years (IY) is a group-based early intervention and prevention program designed to help at-risk parents promote healthy child development and address early indicators of behavioral health problems for children up to 8 years old.