Evidence-Based Practice

Our approach is an evidence-based, neuroscience-informed practice grown from an empirically supported scientific tradition. It includes elements from different relationship-based psychotherapy or counseling approaches and seeks to make these concepts available to teachers, therapists, and other people who work with children. The assumption is that “non-therapists” can and do help children grow. Our approach focuses on the development of self-esteem in angry and aggressive children to reduce the likelihood of violent behavior. Its principles are grounded in the science that repeatedly demonstrates it’s the relationship that makes the difference for a child’s healthy development.

What is Evidence-Based Practice?

The American Psychological Association (APA) developed a task force to encourage professionals to adopt evidence-based approaches. The APA’s task force further elaborated the three elements required for a treatment to be considered evidence-based:

1. Unbiased, empirical research 

2. Inclusion of patients’ insights and preferences

3. Good judgment

Because our model focuses on each of the three components of an evidence-based approach, it too is a member of the large community of evidence-based practices. The model doesn’t offer new ideas in and of itself but rather is a collection of validated, relationship-based psychotherapy approaches made available to non-therapists in a new way.