Real-world use of evidence-based treatments in community behavioral health care.

It is one thing to tout "best practices" and another thing to actually employ them. The author of this month's column provides us with a "fly on the wall" view of the experience of one community mental health center in implementing evidence-based treatments for mental illnesses. If you have ever sat in a meeting at which you are supposed to be generating a best-practice approach and all you are hearing is a discussion of procedures rather than outcomes measurement, this column will be of interest.