Influences on the Sustainability of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies

描述（由申请人提供）：申请人通过独立之路职业发展奖（K99）提出资助，以开展一项培训和研究计划，该计划将发展混合方法研究策略的技能以及传播和组织变革理论的知识。申请人将结合临床干预研究和组织研究，以确定在社区精神卫生机构培训后持续使用经验支持的心理治疗的障碍。拟议的研究项目将通过提供机会来实施混合方法战略，以评估在社区环境中持续实施经验支持治疗的障碍，从而补充培训计划。宾夕法尼亚大学nimh资助的两个研究中心的导师将支持申请人的研究和培训，这两个研究中心都与费城的精神健康机构建立了合作关系。第一项研究将采用调查来检查社区心理健康环境中新干预措施可持续性的一些假设障碍，以及微观人种学方法来产生关于这些环境中特定障碍的更具体假设。第二项研究将考察在社区心理健康机构接受两年多培训后认知疗法使用的自然轨迹。临床医生对CT的态度、特定的组织因素和持续采用CT之间的关系将使用混合方法策略进行检查。这项研究的第二个目标将是对“现实世界”中治疗方案的修改进行第一次检查，这些修改是由于客户的需求和临床实践的现实。这些结果将为制定RO1提供信息，以测试预测社区精神卫生机构内收养可持续性的个人和组织因素模型。这个研究项目将产生一些关于影响循证心理治疗长期可持续性的组织和个人因素的第一批数据。获得的知识可导致实施干预措施，适当解决在社区环境中使用循证疗法的障碍，这反过来将促进更多地获得干预措施，尽管有广泛的经验支持，但目前社区精神卫生消费者尚未广泛获得这些干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The applicant is proposing funding through the Pathway to Independence Career Development Award (K99) to conduct a program of training and research that will to develop skills in mixed-methods research strategies and knowledge of theories of dissemination and organizational change. The applicant will interface clinical intervention research and organizational research to determine barriers to the sustained use of empirically supported psychotherapies after training occurs within community mental health agencies. The proposed research projects will complement the training program by providing opportunities to implement the mixed- methods strategies to assess barriers to sustained implementation of empirically supported treatments within community based-settings. Mentors at two NIMH-funded research centers at Penn, both of which have developed collaborative relationships with mental health agencies in Philadelphia, will support the applicant in the proposed research and training. The first study will employ surveys to examine some hypothesized barriers to the sustainability of new interventions in community mental health settings, as well as micro- ethnographic methods to generate more specific hypotheses regarding barriers specific to these settings. The second study will examine the natural trajectory of the use of cognitive therapy after training in community mental health settings over two years. The relationship between clinician attitudes towards CT, specific organizational factors, and the sustained adoption of CT will be examined using a mixed-methods strategy. A secondary goal of this research will be to conduct the first examination the "real world" modifications that the treatment protocol undergoes as a result of the needs of the client and the realities of clinical practice. These results will inform the development of an RO1 to test a model of the individual and organizational factors that predict the sustainability of adoption within community mental health settings. This research program will yield some of the first data regarding the organizational and individual factors that impact the long-term sustainability of evidence-based psychotherapies. The knowledge gained can lead to the implementation of interventions that appropriately address barriers to the use of evidence-based therapies in community settings, which will in turn promote increased access to interventions that, despite extensive empirical support, currently are not widely available to community mental health consumers.