Four hundred and thirty-two public sector therapists attended a workshop in contingency management and were interviewed monthly for the following 6 months to assess their adoption and initial implementation of contingency management to treat substance abusing adolescent clients. Results showed that 58% of the practitioners (n = 131) with at least one substance abusing adolescent client (n = 225) adopted contingency management. Rates of adoption varied with therapist service sector (mental health versus substance abuse), educational background, professional experience, and attitudes toward treatment manuals and evidence-based practices. Competing clinical priorities and client resistance were most often reported as barriers to adopting contingency management, whereas unfavorable attitudes toward and difficulty in implementing contingency management were rarely cited as barriers. The fidelity of initial contingency management implementation among adopters was predicted by organizational characteristics as well as by several demographic, professional experience, attitudinal, and service sector characteristics. Overall, the findings support the amenability of public sector practitioners to adopt evidence-based practices and suggest that the predictors of adoption and initial implementation are complex and multifaceted.
Because it incorporates standard adaptive psychophysical methodology in a computer application that can be used on any desktop computer but does not depend on specialized hardware for application, the ATTR promises to be a clinically feasible addition to the APD test battery.
Colocated primary care services were allocated on the basis of severity of psychiatric impairment rather than severity of medical illness. This program serves as a model for other systems to employ for integrated primary and behavioral health services for patients with serious mental illness.
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