The dissemination and implementation of evidence-based psychological treatments. A review of current efforts.

By R. McHugh, David H. Barlow. American Psychologist, 2010

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Recognizing an urgent need for increased access to evidenced-based psychological treatments, public health authorities have recently allocated over $2 billion to better disseminate these interventions. In response, implementation of these programs has begun, some of it on a very large scale, with substantial implications for the science and profession of psychology. But methods to transport treatments to service delivery settings have developed independently without strong evidence for, or even a consensus on, best practices for accomplishing this task or for measuring successful outcomes of training. This article reviews current leading efforts at the national, state, and individual treatment developer levels to integrate evidence-based interventions into service delivery settings. Programs are reviewed in the context of the accumulated wisdom of dissemination and implementation science and of methods for assessment of outcomes for training efforts. Recommendations for future implementation strategies will derive from evaluating outcomes of training procedures and developing a consensus on necessary training elements to be used in these efforts.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2012, background): “This state of affairs has substantially diminished the public health significance of the availability of evidencebased psychological treatments and hindered their widespread dissemination (McHugh & Barlow, 2010).”
The Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Neuroticism (2014, background): “It is fair to say that these findings have had a substantial impact in that public-health authorities have allocated billions of dollars for training and dissemination of these treatments (McHugh & Barlow, 2010).”
The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders Compared With Diagnosis-Specific Protocols for Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2017, background): “17,32 The UP consists of the following 5 core treatment modules: (1) mindful emotion awareness, (2) cognitive flexibility, (3) identifying and preventing patterns of emotion avoidance, (4) increasing awareness and tolerance of emotionrelated physical sensations, and (5) interoceptive and Figure 1.”
The Role of Therapist Training in the Implementation of Psychosocial Treatments: A Review and Critique with Recommendations (2010, background): “Within these implementation efforts training has been extensively conducted across various treatment modalities, settings, and therapist1 groups (McHugh & Barlow, 2010).”
Odd Couple? Reenvisioning the Relation Between Science and Practice in the Dissemination-Implementation Era (2014, background): “…e.g., National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2003); •• Large-scale government-promoted identification and use of ESTs, in the United States and beyond (see, e.g., McHugh & Barlow, 2010); Corresponding Author: John R. Weisz, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33…”
mHealth for mental health: Integrating smartphone technology in behavioral healthcare. (2011, background): “Despite the establishment of clinical practice guidelines, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments has progressed very slowly (McHugh & Barlow, 2010) and it is possible that apps designed to support specific treatments could reduce provider implementation barriers and barriers…”
A Compilation of Strategies for Implementing Clinical Innovations in Health and Mental Health (2011, methodology): “$w aterm ark-text $w aterm ark-text $w aterm ark-text Source and Date Focus Discipline/Clinical Specialty in the Evidence-Based Practices Project McHugh & Barlow, 2010 Reviews exemplar efforts at the national, state, and individual treatment developer levels to implement evidence-based mental health”
The quest for evidence-based practice: A view from the United States (2011, background): “The EST effort continues, and strongly so (see McHugh & Barlow, 2010).”