title: Is Openness to Using Empirically Supported Treatments Related to Organizational Culture and Climate?
abstract: The overall purpose of this study is to investigate workers' openness towards implementing a new empirically supported treatment (EST) and whether the workers' openness scores relate to their workplace culture and climate scores. Participants in this study (N=1273) worked in a total of 55 different programs in a large child and family services organization and completed a survey measuring their attitudes toward ESTs. Results indicate that work groups that measure themselves as being more open to using ESTs rated their organizational cultures as being significantly more proficient and significantly less resistant to change. With ESTs becoming the gold standard for professional social work practices, it is important to have accessible pathways to EST implementation.
authors.affiliation: George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington, University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1196, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, dpatterson@brownschool.wustl.edu.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Patterson Silver Wolf Adelv Unegv Waya
authors.forename: Catherine N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Dulmus
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maguin
keywords: Hillside Family of Agencies; Worker Openness; culture and climate; empirically supported treatments