Stressing the (other) three Rs in the search for empirically supported treatments: Review procedures, research quality, relevance to practice and thepublic interest

The Society of Clinical Psychology's task forces on psychological intervent ion developed criteria for evaluating clinical trials, applied those criter ia, and generated lists of empirically supported treatments. Building on th is strong base, the task force successor the Committee on Science and Pract ice, now pursues a three-part agenda: (a) evolution of review and classific ation procedures with an emphasis on reliability across reviewers, (b) an a ctive role as gadfly in promoting improved research, and (c) a disseminatio n program (with an evolving web site) to make our process, findings, and da ta base accessible to practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and the pu blic. We seek to link practitioners and researchers in the shared goal of i mproving mental health care by encouraging evidence-based practice and trai ning.