Editorial: Evaluating the Clinical and Financial Outcomes of Implementing Dialectical Behavior Therapy on a Psychiatric Inpatient Unit: A Change in Practice and Culture.

Applying and evaluating evidence-based treatments (EBTs) across the mental health care continuum continues to gain support and cultivate strategies for development, training, implementation, and evaluation. However, there is a disconnect between science and practice, resulting in limited implementation of EBTs in real-world clinical settings, such as outpatient care, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient programs, psychiatric inpatient hospitalization, and residential care. Although some EBTs and associated interventions have been evaluated in outpatient settings, few have been evaluated in acute and intense treatment settings (eg, partial hospitalization programs, inpatient hospitalization).