**Description of the Professional Development CE Workshop:**
The leaky pipeline is a well-established metaphor for the challenges preventing
research advances from reaching clinicians, consumers, and the general public. Evidence-
based assessment (EBA) can improve the formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans, and
outcomes – but only if clinicians are aware of them, can find them, and use them. Open source
approaches to dissemination show great promise in bridging the leaky pipeline due
to easy accessibility and low cost. For example, Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in
the world, and the 5th most visited Internet site. Wikiversity is a sister site geared towards
teaching and practice. This workshop shares pages on these, with links to several different
open-sourced platforms that improve the dissemination of psychological science, including
some of the best free assessment tools and therapy resources. General descriptions and
background are geared towards the general public on Wikipedia; Wikiversity hosts more
technical scoring and interpretive information. An assessment center with free, automated
scoring for more than 65 scales has been built with grants from the APS, SSCP, SCCAP/
Division53, SCP/Division 12, and the APA/CODAPAR. We discuss the impact of
the different dissemination approaches, provide suggestions on future directions that the
field can take, and introduces opportunities for collaboration and audience contributions.
In the workshop, we show resources and then use high structure activities such as paired
role plays to apply resources as clinicians and clients. QR codes and tiny URLs disseminate
the information, and the Open Science Framework provides a back end to store files and
resources. Participants will leave with more than 65 free-scoring assessments, more than
200 PDFs, 300 printed pages worth of support materials, and exposure to ways of updating
and elaborating the information available.
**Learning Objectives:**
At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
1. Access and use at least two free online assessments that could be used in one’s work.
2. Discuss and provide feedback about a resource
kit for working with emotional and behavioral problems.
3. Create a network to share suggestions and get updated versions of
kits and materials.
4. Identify 3 free resources available online (and
discoverable via Google search) that provide information about psychological services.
5. Describe the steps involved in editing and monitoring content on Wikipedia and Wikiversity.
