title: Moving empirically supported practices to addiction treatment programs: recruiting supervisors to help in technology transfer.
abstract: Federal and state funding agencies are encouraging or mandating the use of empirically supported treatments in addiction programs, yet many programs have not moved in this direction (Forman, Bovasso, and Woody, 2001 ; Roman and Johnson, 2002 ; Willenbring et al., 2004 ). To improve the skills of counselors in community addiction programs, the authors developed an innovative Web-based course on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a widely accepted empirically-supported practice (ESP) for addiction. Federal funding supports this Web course and a randomized controlled trial to evaluate its effectiveness. Since supervisors often play a pivotal role in helping clinicians transfer learned skills from training courses to the workplace, the authors recruited supervisor-counselor teams, engaging 54 supervisors and 120 counselors. Lessons learned focus on supervisor recruitment and involvement, supervisors' perceptions of CBT, their own CBT skills and their roles in the study, and implications for technology transfer for the addiction field as a whole. Recruiting supervisors proved difficult because programs lacked clinical supervisors. Recruiting counselors was also difficult because programs were concerned about loss of third-party reimbursement. Across the addiction field, technology transfer will be severely hampered unless such infrastructure problems can be solved. Areas for further investigation are identified.
authors.affiliation: Center for Addictions Research and Services, Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. mamodeo@bu.edu
authors.forename: Maryann
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amodeo
authors.forename: Susan A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Storti
authors.forename: Mary Jo
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Larson
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003376:Counseling / Q000592:standards; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006270:Health Facility Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010560:Personnel Selection; D011361:Professional Competence; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D018581:Technology Transfer
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