“…Intervention researchers often view practitioners' skepticism toward manuals as ignorance or intransigence (Tavris, 2003). This is unfortunate, as the support and trust of practitioners is essential to the dissemination and implementation of evidencebased interventions, many of which are being manualized (Gothard, Ryan, & Heinrich, 2000;Hemmelgarn, Glisson, & Lawrence, 2006;Schmidt & Taylor, 2002). Practitioners may play into researchers' prejudices by rejecting treatment manuals out of hand, as in the case of a recent president of a highly regarded mental health organization referring to the use of treatment manuals as "fundamentally insane" (Carey, 2004, p. 1).…”