If you build it, they will come: statewide practitioner interest in contingency management for youths.
Addressing the science-service gap, we examined in this study the amenability of a large heterogeneous sample of community-based therapists in the state mental health and substance abuse treatment sectors to learn about an evidence-based practice (EBP) for adolescent substance abuse (i.e., contingency management [CM]) when such learning was supported administratively and logistically. Leadership in most (44 of 50) public sector agencies supported practitioner recruitment, and 432 of 543 eligible practitioners subsequently attended a 1-day workshop in CM. Workshop attendance was predicted by organizational factors but not by practitioner demographic characteristics, professional background, attitudes toward EBPs, or service sector. Moreover, the primary reason for workshop attendance was to improve services for adolescent clients; the primary barriers to attendance, for those who did not attend, were practical in nature and not due to theoretical incompatibility. The findings demonstrate a considerable amount of interest practitioners showed in both the substance abuse and mental health sectors in learning about an EBP.
Henggeler
Scott W
SW
Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29451, USA. henggesw@musc.edu
Chapman
Jason E
JE
Rowland
Melisa D
MD
Halliday-Boykins
Colleen A
CA
Randall
Jeff
J
Shackelford
Jennifer
J
Schoenwald
Sonja K
SK
D000293:Adolescent; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000193:education*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D004493:Education; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D017150:Public Sector; D013022:South Carolina; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014040:Token Economy