Transporting a research-based adolescent drug treatment into practice.
This article describes the key ingredients and processes in transporting an empirically supported, research-developed family therapy for adolescent drug abusers, Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), into an intensive day treatment program. Using the same systems change principles that guide this treatment approach, the technology transfer process has been, from its inception, a collaborative, multidimensional, systemic intervention aimed at changing organizational structures, and attitudinal and behavioral patterns with multiple staff members at several levels of the program. This article describes: (1) the conceptual and empirical basis for these technology transfer efforts; (2) the technology being adapted and transferred; and (3) the critical events and processes that have shaped the transfer of MDFT into this program. We discuss this process and the outcomes thus far through the lens of Simpson's organizational change model and specify the implications of this experience for the expansion of current conceptualization of technology transfer.
Liddle
Howard A
HA
University of Miami Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1400 N.W. 10th Avenue, 11th floor, Miami, FL 33136, USA. hliddle@med.miami.edu
Rowe
Cynthia L
CL
Quille
Tanya J
TJ
Dakof
Gayle A
GA
Mills
Dana Scott
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Sakran
Eve
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Biaggi
Hector
H
D000293:Adolescent; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / Q000458:organization & administration; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D018581:Technology Transfer