REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

A REVIEW PAPER ON EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE USING GROUPS

Developed Under the Purview of the AGPA Science to Service Task Force

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:  OCTOBER 1, 2010

AGPA’s Science to Service Task Force announces a Request For Proposals (RFP) that involves assembling a review paper on evidence-based practice using groups.

We are seeking a summary and integration of the broad and diverse literature that has already addressed this topic.  Such a paper will be extremely useful to AGPA in marketing our product, documenting our achievements to other health professionals, provider systems (private and public), and legislators, and approaching potential donors and funders.

The content for such a review should build upon the work of others.  It should provide a historical perspective, along with a set of working definitions for evidence-based practice.  It should identify major reviews of the group literature that have touched upon its effectiveness with different disorders (e.g., anxiety disorders, affective disorders, various personality disorders), populations (e.g., children, adolescents, adults), and settings (e.g., inpatient, day hospital, outpatient).  In addition, it should include an assessment of evidence-based groups for the treatment of trauma.

An honorarium of $2,000 is being offered for the completion of this review paper.

Proposals are to be sent to the attention of the AGPA Science to Service Task Force via email to dfeirman@agpa.org by October 1, 2010.  Only electronic submissions will be accepted.  Receipt of the proposal will be acknowledged within 72 hours; a decision for awarding of the project is anticipated by December 1, 2010.  If your proposal is accepted, you will have approximately three (3) months to complete the project.  Fifty percent of the honorarium will be granted upon acceptance of the proposal.  The balance will be awarded upon acceptance of the submitted paper.