Prologue : "helpful" mental health services / David W. Lynde -- Ch. 1. What is severe mental illness? / Barbara Dickey -- Ch. 2. What are community mental health services? / Carlos W. Pratt and Kenneth J. Gill -- Ch. 3. The principles of evidence-based mental health treatment / Robert E. Drake -- Ch. 4. Evidence-based practice emerges / Susan T. Azrin and Howard H. Goldman -- Ch. 5. Clinical decision making and the evidence-based practitioner / Kenneth J. Gill and Carlos W. Pratt -- Ch. 6. The importance of research in mental health service delivery / David L. Shern and Mary E. Evans -- Ch. 7. Evidence in intervention science / H. Stephen Leff -- Ch. 8. Closing the gap between what services are and what they could be / William C. Torrey and Paul G. Gorman -- Ch. 9. What are the common features of evidence-based practices? / Charles A. Rapp and Richard J. Goscha -- Ch. 10. How does a practice become evidence-based? / Kim T. Mueser and Robert E. Drake -- Ch. 11. Developing and sustaining evidence-based systems of mental health services / Phyllis Panzano and Lon Herman -- Ch. 12. The interface of cultural competency and evidence-based practices / Carole Siegel, Gary Haugland and Robert Schore -- Ch. 13. Recovery perspectives in evidence-based practice / Gretchen Grappone and Melinda Fox -- Ch. 14. Assertive community treatment / Gary Morse and Mike McKasson -- Ch. 15. Integrated dual-disorder treatment / Patrick Boyle, Christina M. Delos Reyes and Richard A. Kruszynski -- Ch. 16. Supported employment / Gary R. Bond and Amanda Jones -- Ch. 17. Illness management and recovery / Susan Gingerich and Kim T. Mueser -- Ch. 18. Evidence-based practices for families of individuals with severe mental illness / Aaron Murray-Swank and Lisa Dixon -- Ch. 19. Medications / Alexander L. Miller -- Epilogue : the future of evidence-based practices in mental health / Robert E. Drake, Matthew R. Merrens and David W. Lynde