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Measuring Practitioner Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Treatments: A Validation Study

NCJ Number
234926
Journal
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse Volume: 20 Issue: 2 Dated: April-June 2011 Pages: 166-183
Author(s)
Rindee G.P. Ashcraft; Sharon L. Foster; Amy E. Lowery; Scott W. Henggeler; Jason E. Chapman; Melisa D. Rowland
Date Published
April 2011
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This study attempted to cross-validate the factor structure of two measures of therapist attitude toward evidence-base treatment.
Abstract
A better understanding of clinicians' attitudes toward evidence-based treatments (EBT) will presumably enhance the transfer of EBTs for substance-abusing adolescents from research to clinical application. The reliability and validity of two measures of therapist attitudes toward EBT were examined: the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (Aarons, 2004), and Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy Treatment Manuals Scale (Addis and Krasnow, 2000). Participants included 543 public sector, master's-level mental health and substance abuse therapists who treat adolescents. Factor analyses generally corroborated factor structures of the instruments found previously. Beliefs that EBTs negatively affect treatment process were associated with relatively low openness to new treatments and with beliefs that EBTs do not produce positive outcomes. (Published Abstract)