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Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Shipp
Subcontract PI: Mark Chaffin
Subcontract PI: Gregory
A. Aarons
Funding: NIMH R34MH074805
A common obstacle to evidence-based treatment (EBT) uptake
and transportability from lab to field is the disconnect between
research and practice worlds. Indeed, clinical scientists
and clinical practitioners may move in different realities,
and there may be little interaction or collaboration between
front-line public agency practice staff and university-based
researchers. EBT's are typically developed through the methods
of clinical science and are most strongly identified with
university-based researchers and research culture. Dissemination
and implementation efforts may be perceived by front-line
practitioners as a top-down process at odds with their own
clinical experience, clinical values and perceptions about
treatment effectiveness. Research-practice partnerships (RPP's)
represent a more collaborative approach to EBT implementation.
RPP's are based on the core assumption that both researchers
and front-line practitioners have common commitment to client
outcomes, and that practitioners and researchers can become
jointly engaged in an organized process of judging effectiveness
and directing practice accordingly. The RPP model involves
researchers and practitioners jointly defining desired programmatic
outcomes, systematically measuring and examining those outcomes,
comparing outcomes across time and between EBT vs. standard
treatments, then feeding this information back into the RPP.
The proposed project involves a collaboration between the
Oklahoma Department of Mental Health's Systems of Care sites,
the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the Child
and Adolescent Services Research Center in San Diego, the
CMHS Phase-IV effectiveness trial headed by ORC-Macro and
Brief Strategic Family Therapy intervention developers and
trainers at the University of Miami Center for Family Studies.
The study will compare provider attitudes toward and buy-in
for an EBT, and related aspects of organizational climate
and culture at two effectiveness trial sites, one with and
another without the RPP intervention.
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2007
CASRC