Group CBT for Externalizing Disorders in Urban Schools: Effect of Training Strategy on Treatment Fidelity and Child Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Public schools are an ideal setting for the delivery of mental health services to children. Unfortunately, services provided in schools, and more so in urban schools, have been found to lead to little or no significant clinical improvements. Studies with urban school children seldom report on the effects of clinician training on treatment fidelity and child outcomes. This study examines the differential effects of two levels of school-based counselor training: training workshop with basic consultation (C) vs. training workshop plus enhanced consultation (C+) on treatment fidelity and child outcomes. Fourteen school staff members (counselors) were randomly assigned to C or C+. Counselors implemented a group cognitive behavioral therapy protocol (Coping Power Program, CPP) for children with

SUBMITTER: Eiraldi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6020147 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature