Our Publications
Research & Practice Briefs
- Supporting the Youth Peer Workforce: Peer support is fast emerging as a promising and widely endorsed addition to the array of mental health services available to young people experiencing serious mental health conditions. This practice brief offers strategies for supporting youth peer support specialists and addressing common challenges they face.
- Cultural Considerations in Applying Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups with Serious Mental Illness: This practice brief is intended to help clinicians —particularly those who administer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for individuals with serious mental illness—to enhance their cultural awareness and incorporate culturally-relevant practices into their formulation and treatment approach.
- Effective Programs to Address Trauma in Schools: In the United States, children and adolescents are exposed to violence and other traumatic events at alarming rates. Numerous studies have documented the short-and long-term consequences of exposure to violence and other traumatic events on children and adolescents. This practice brief describes three of the most commonly used effective school-based interventions for trauma and the importance of creating a “trauma-informed” school community in order to optimize these interventions.
- The Importance of Human Relationships, Ethics, and Recovery-Orientated Values in the Delivery of CBT for People with Psychosis: This brief summarizes research examining whether Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is able to meet the stated needs of individuals seeking mental health services. CBTp is an accepted evidence-based treatment aimed at reducing the distress and impairment associated with psychotic symptoms. CBTp has been incorporated in national Canadian and United States schizophrenia treatment guidelines.
- Integrated Care for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness and Medical Comorbidity: Evidence-Based Models and Future Research Directions: Older adults with serious mental illnesses (SMI), such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder experience greater barriers to preventive and routine health care, and often receive care that is fragmented and inadequate. This paper summarizes evidence-based integrated models of care that address the mental and physical health needs of older adults with SMI.
- Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Care for Early Psychosis: Efforts to improve the quality and population reach of services for psychosis underscore the need to provide culturally and linguistically responsive care (CLR). With an emphasis on early psychosis, this brief reviews clinical and organizational best practices to promote such care. Highlights of research findings that empirically support the need for CLR care are presented and largely focus on Latinx sub-populations. Implications for practice and research applicable to multiple service settings with varying service sectors are illustrated.
Highlights & Key Concepts Documents & Tip Sheets
- The Importance of the Team Leader in the Implementation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
- A Framework for Whole-Person Care in Behavioral Health
- LEND A HAND: A Crisis Management, Triage and De-escalation Model
- Maximizing Therapeutic Alliance in Suicide Risk Assessment, Management, and Treatment
- Opioids, Overdose and Naloxone Administration
- Safe, Sane and Stable in Turbulent Times
- Transgender Mental Health: Co-Conspiratorship
- Washington State Telehealth COVID-19 Series
- Psychological First Aid for Leadership
- Psychological First Aid for Service Providers
- Listening to Voices of Lived Experience in Recovery
- Grief, Exhaustion, and Finding Vitality in Behavioral Health Care For Supervisors and Leadership
- Grief, Exhaustion, and Finding Vitality in Behavioral Health Care For Staff
- Wisdom to Know the Difference: For Supervisors
- Wisdom to Know the Difference: For Staff
- Cultural Elements of Native Mental Health with a Focus on Rural Issues
- Increasing Cultural Connection with Hispanic and Latinx Clients: Understanding the Cultural Needs of the Hispanic and Latinx Client
- Increasing Cultural Connection with Hispanic and Latinx Clients: Assessing the Cultural Adaptation Needs of the Organization and Clinician
- Increasing Cultural Connection with Hispanic and Latinx Clients: Incorporating Strategies to Effectively Engage Hispanic and Latinx Clients
- Co-occurring Disorders: Compassionate Care for Healing and Recovery
- Supervising Peer Specialists: How supervision can help peer specialists remain peer when working on clinical teams
- The Role of the Peer within a Clinical Team
- Staff Kaleidoscope for Multicultural Providers: Perspective on Our Field
- Leader Kaleidoscope for Multicultural Supervisors: Supporting Our Teams
- Homelessness and Mental Health: Impacts and Strategies for Effective Care
- Navigating the Tough Stuff: LGBTQ Suicide Awareness for Families
- Navigating the Tough Stuff: LGBTQ Suicide Prevention for Families
- Integration of NCLAS in Health Services Delivery
- Talking About Equity in Action
- Truth, Trauma and Equity-Informed Solutions
- STRIDE: Implementing an evidence-based lifestyle intervention
Conference Posters
- Supporting Implementation Outcomes through Online Learning Communities: Lessons Learned from the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center | 15th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
- Supporting Practitioners through Workforce Development: How do Training Strategies Impact Implementation Outcomes? | Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC)
- Family Bridger Pilot Program | 2021 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention Poster
- Tailoring Evaluation Designs to Training and Technical Assistance Delivery Formats | Northwest MHTTC American Evaluation Association (AEA) 2020 Poster