Category: Dissemination & Implementation Science
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Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence Use (BRiDGE) Program
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ruben Martinez, Ph.D.
Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence Use (BRIDGE) Program
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Mallory Dobias, B.S., M.A. (she/her/hers)
PhD Student
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York
Vanesa Mora Ringle, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Lesley Norris, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Margaret E. Crane, Ph.D.
Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence Use (BRiDGE) Program
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Most people who receive mental health treatment do not receive an evidence-based treatment, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Additionally, the modal number of therapy sessions clients attend is 1. This suggests a gap between what clients know to look for when finding a therapist, as well as clients’ preferences for the type of therapy they receive. Client preferences have been relatively underemphasized in treatment development. This symposium brings together four presentations examining consumer (clients and their families’) preferences for and impressions of treatment. Understanding consumer preferences can ensure that treatments are tailored and implemented with the end-user in mind. Starting broadly, Presenter 1 and 2 evaluated consumer preferences for treatment. Presenter 1 assessed youths’ ideal mental health support, including where support is received, who is involved in receiving and providing the support, how they feel as they receive the support, and who would decide if the support is working. Presenter 2 examined caregivers’ therapeutic preferences and attitudes of evidence-based practices. Presenters 3 and 4
evaluated consumer perceptions specifically of CBT. Presenter 3 assessed the most and least liked aspects of CBT of caregivers of youth who received CBT for anxiety. Finally, Presenter 4 compared treatment recipients’ and informed consumers’ perceived helpfulness of CBT skills, as well as their impressions of exposure therapy and descriptions of how to describe exposure to other caregivers. Presenters used a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to gain a deeper understanding of consumer perceptions. The discussant will offer summarizing comments on the importance of consumers as informants for both treatment research and dissemination and implementation research. The symposium will aim to inform program developers in designing new treatments, therapists for tailoring treatments, and disseminators of information about CBT on how to describe treatments to consumers and therapists.
