Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Identifying predictors of evidence-based practice EBP use, such as supervision processes and therapist characteristics, may support dissemination. Supervision involving modeling and role-play predicted higher overall practice use than supervision involving discussion, and modeling predicted practice use in the next therapy session. No therapist characteristics predicted practice use, but therapist sex and age moderated the supervision and practice use relation.
Supervision involving discussion predicted practice use for male therapists only, and modeling and role-play in supervision predicted practice use for older, not younger, therapists. Keywords: clinical supervision, therapist characteristics, treatment adherence, evidence based practices. Establishing effective, evidence-based care in community practice contexts for youth has emerged as one of the dominant challenges of the past decade in mental health services research and implementation.
By community practice, we are referring to community-based agencies that provide mental health services to youth, both children and adolescents. Despite the wealth of treatments that have demonstrated efficacy in university-based randomized clinical trials Chorpita et al.
Helping therapists who work in typical, non-research service settings make use of scientifically supported practices requires a systematic understanding of the variables that support successful implementation. The current study examined two hypothesized predictors of treatment implementation—therapist characteristics and supervision processes—in an effectiveness study of EBPs for youth in community mental health clinics.
In contrast, community therapists vary widely in degree of specialized training and access to expert supervision or evaluative feedback Glisson et al.
