What are Evidence Based Interventions (EBI)?
Evidence-based interventions (EBI) are treatments that have proven effective (to some degree) through outcome evaluations. As such, EBI are treatments which are likely to be effective in changing target behavior if implemented with integrity. The EBI movement has an extensive history across Medicine, Clinical andCounseling Psychology. In the 1990’s the EBI movement was extended to Education/School Psychology. While there has been a great deal of intervention research and general discussion, the development of an agreed upon “list” of EBI has not occurred. Before such a list would be useful, there are several critical features of EBI that must be understood to result in effective use. We refer to those features as the “EBI Fine Print”. EBI Fine Print I – EBI are validated for a specific purpose with a specific population. As such, EBIs are only useful for a range of problems and as such, must be paired up with the right situation. If you match an EBI with a problem is it not designed to
