title: Increasing psychotherapists' adoption and implementation of the evidence-based practice of progress monitoring.
abstract: Evidence-based practices (EBPs) reach consumers slowly because practitioners are slow to adopt and implement them. We hypothesized that giving psychotherapists a tool + training intervention that was designed to help the therapist integrate the EBP of progress monitoring into his or her usual way of working would be associated with adoption and sustained implementation of the particular progress monitoring tool we trained them to use (the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales on our Online Progress Tracking tool) and would generalize to all types of progress monitoring measures. To test these hypotheses, we developed an online progress monitoring tool and a course that trained psychotherapists to use it, and we assessed progress monitoring behavior in 26 psychotherapists before, during, immediately after, and 12 months after they received the tool and training. Immediately after receiving the tool + training intervention, participants showed statistically significant increases in use of the online tool and of all types of progress monitoring measures. Twelve months later, participants showed sustained use of any type of progress monitoring measure but not the online tool.
authors.affiliation: San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, USA. Electronic address: persons@cbtscience.com.
authors.forename: Jacqueline B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Persons
authors.affiliation: Evidence-Based Practice Institute, USA.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koerner
authors.affiliation: San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, USA.
authors.forename: Polina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Eidelman
authors.affiliation: San Francisco Group for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy, USA.
authors.forename: Cannon
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, USA.
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D009862:Online Systems; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends
keywords: Adoption; Dissemination; Evidence-based practice; Implementation; Progress monitoring