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May 7, 2018

Adam discusses the new website www.mirecc.va.gov/treatmentworksforvets with Dr. Brad Karlin. The website has two purposes. The first is to introduce Veterans to the idea of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, especially for insomnia and depression (others will be added later). Evidence-Based Psychotherapies (EBP) are treatments that have been shown to work; they have been tested and work. The other part of the website is for clinicians and focuses on Shared Decision Making, a process in which the provider sits down with the person interested in getting treatment and together they decide on what EBP is best for the individual. Best of all the website is free and open to everyone - Veteran and non-Veteran!

NOTE: After this episode was recorded the website link changed. The website is now available at www.mirecc.va.gov/treatmentworksforvets