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Little is known about what individual treatment strategies therapists providing usual care psychotherapy consider the most valuable to their practice. The Therapeutic Strategies Survey (TSS) assesses therapists’ attitudes about the value of 27 individual treatment strategies in their practice with children with disruptive behavior problems in community-based outpatient psychotherapy. Findings indicate that therapists from multiple professional disciplines highly value many individual psychotherapeutic strategies, and consider strategies common to a majority of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for this population at least as important as strategies not emphasized in EBPs. Implications for developing therapist training and implementation of EBPs are discussed.
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This study was supported by National Institute of Mental Health grants R01-MH-66070 and K23-MH-077584.
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Brookman-Frazee, L., Garland, A.F., Taylor, R. et al. Therapists’ Attitudes Towards Psychotherapeutic Strategies in Community-Based Psychotherapy with Children with Disruptive Behavior Problems. Adm Policy Ment Health 36, 1–12 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-008-0195-6
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