The report discusses evidence-based practices in the field of mental health; specifically a distillation and matching model (DMM) that describes how evidence-based treatment operations can be conceptualized at a lower order level of analysis than simply by their manuals. Also referred to as the “common elements” approach, this model demonstrates the feasibility of coding and identifying the specific techniques and procedures (e.g., relaxation, exposure, time out) that make up evidence-based protocols for specific problem areas, thereby producing sample aggregate profiles of these procedures.

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