Scaling up psychological treatments: A countrywide test of the online training of therapists.
<h4>Background</h4> <p>A major barrier to the widespread dissemination of psychological treatments is the way that therapists are trained. The current method is not scalable.</p> <h4>Objective</h4> <p>To conduct a proof-of concept study of “web-centred tra...
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| description | <h4>Background</h4> <p>A major barrier to the widespread dissemination of psychological treatments is the way that therapists are trained. The current method is not scalable.</p> <h4>Objective</h4> <p>To conduct a proof-of concept study of “web-centred training”, a scalable online method for training therapists.</p> <h4>Methods</h4> <p>The Irish Health Service Executive identified mental health professionals across the country whom they wanted to be trained in a specific psychological treatment for eating disorders. These therapists were given access to a “web-centred training” programme in transdiagnostic cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders. The training was accompanied by a scalable form of support consisting of brief encouraging telephone calls from a non-specialist. The trainee therapists completed a validated measure of therapist competence before and after the training.</p> <h4>Results</h4> <p>One hundred and two therapists embarked upon the training programme, 84.3% (86/102) of whom completed it. There was a substantial increase in their competence scores following the training (mean difference=5.84; 95% Cl -6.62 to -5.05; P<0.001) with 42.5% (34/80) scoring above a pre-determined cut-point indicative of a good level of competence.</p> <h4>Conclusions</h4> <p>Web-centred training proved feasible and acceptable, and resulted in a marked increase in therapist competence scores. If these findings are replicated, web-centred training would provide a means of simultaneously training large numbers of geographically dispersed trainees at low cost, thereby overcoming a major obstacle to the widespread dissemination of psychological treatments.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:fc2ca940-62f1-4829-9238-2456874983142022-03-27T13:18:53ZScaling up psychological treatments: A countrywide test of the online training of therapists.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:fc2ca940-62f1-4829-9238-245687498314EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordJMIR Publications2017Fairburn, CGAllen, EBailey-Straebler, SO'Connor, MECooper, Z <h4>Background</h4> <p>A major barrier to the widespread dissemination of psychological treatments is the way that therapists are trained. The current method is not scalable.</p> <h4>Objective</h4> <p>To conduct a proof-of concept study of “web-centred training”, a scalable online method for training therapists.</p> <h4>Methods</h4> <p>The Irish Health Service Executive identified mental health professionals across the country whom they wanted to be trained in a specific psychological treatment for eating disorders. These therapists were given access to a “web-centred training” programme in transdiagnostic cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders. The training was accompanied by a scalable form of support consisting of brief encouraging telephone calls from a non-specialist. The trainee therapists completed a validated measure of therapist competence before and after the training.</p> <h4>Results</h4> <p>One hundred and two therapists embarked upon the training programme, 84.3% (86/102) of whom completed it. There was a substantial increase in their competence scores following the training (mean difference=5.84; 95% Cl -6.62 to -5.05; P<0.001) with 42.5% (34/80) scoring above a pre-determined cut-point indicative of a good level of competence.</p> <h4>Conclusions</h4> <p>Web-centred training proved feasible and acceptable, and resulted in a marked increase in therapist competence scores. If these findings are replicated, web-centred training would provide a means of simultaneously training large numbers of geographically dispersed trainees at low cost, thereby overcoming a major obstacle to the widespread dissemination of psychological treatments.</p> |
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