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Clinical Practices

Education Session A

A15 - Dismantling the EBP Industrial Complex: Delivering on the Promise of Evidence-based Care in Community Mental Health

Monday, April 27, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT
Location: 607
NASW CCB ACCME ANCC NY-SW NY-MHC NBCC
Community mental health has long struggled to implement evidence-based practices at scale, limited by rigid fidelity standards, costly trainings, and siloed treatment protocols. This session introduces a transdiagnostic, transtheoretical framework that simplifies care by focusing on core therapeutic competencies effective across diagnoses and settings. Attendees will learn how this model improves outcomes, reduces costs, and expands access in underfunded and diverse systems. The session will also feature an early career clinician sharing her real-world experience applying the framework in practice.

Learning Objectives:

  • Analyze how the EBP Industrial Complex limits clinician competence, increases costs, and constrains access to effective care in community mental health.
  • Differentiate a transdiagnostic, transtheoretical framework from traditional single-disorder EBPs by identifying the shared processes it targets and the range of evidence-based interventions it integrates.
  • Appraise how this streamlined framework can be implemented across rural and urban clinics, culturally diverse populations, and underfunded systems to reduce costs, build workforce capacity, and improve client outcomes.
Disclosure(s):
Douglas Katz, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose
Kerry Rivard, LMHC: No financial relationships to disclose
Cory Easton, LCSW: No financial relationships to disclose
Meaghan James, LICSW: No financial relationships to disclose

    Breakout Presenter(s)

  • DK

    Douglas Katz, PhD

    Director of Clinical Services
    Eliot Community Human Services
    Needham, Massachusetts

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

    Slides

  • Kerry Rivard, LMHC

    Director of Evidence-Based Practices
    Eliot Community Human Services
    Danvers, Massachusetts

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Cory Easton, LCSW

    Clinical Supervisor
    Eliot Community Human Services
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

    Slides
  • MJ

    Meaghan James, LICSW

    CBHC Team Manager
    Eliot Community Human Services
    Lynn, Massachusetts

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose