Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in Psychiatric and Mental Health Care: Can We Move to Make It Specific?

摘要

Perhaps because of my own professional passions, I have decided that my editorial for this issue must focus again on the link between research and practice. I am fully aware that over the past 8 years of my editorship of JAPNA, I have circled back to this topic often. However, in thinking over the history of my columns, I realized that my messages have always been in the abstract-advocating for the importance of basing practice on research findings, supporting the need for clinician-researcher partnerships to advance our specialty, and most recently, pointing out the absence of research and science at our APNA annual meetings.