Brief acceptance-based intervention for increasing intake attendance at a community mental health center.

Williston, Michael A.; Block-Lerner, Jennifer; Wolanin, Andrew T.; Gardner, Frank L.

doi:10.1037/a0035686

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“…Pulford and Wheeler (2007) recommended that therapists in general should make greater effort to increase client attendance duration, and teaching graduate therapists how to engage clients and maintain attendance would appear to be important skills (cf. Williston, Block‐Lerner, Wolanin, & Gardner, 2014).…”

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Client attendance measures in counselling psychology trainees

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2020

Couns and Psychother Res

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Counselling supervisors and educators have yet to reach a consensus about standard measures for evaluating the performance of graduate student therapists. Compared to self‐reports and rater judgements, client attendance records provide low‐inference behavioural data partially reflective of clients’ engagement with therapists. This naturalistic study evaluates client attendance data using archival records of 92 doctoral students in beginning and advanced counselling practica who produced data for 771 clients, 3,949 scheduled sessions and 3,186 attended sessions. Providing evidence of the sample representativeness for clinicians, results indicated that the mean number of sessions attended per client for student therapists (5.65) was very similar to that reported in the literature for outpatient therapists (<6). As expected because of structural differences in client assignment, beginning and advanced students evidenced statistically significant differences on attendance variables such as number of clients and scheduled sessions. In contrast, attendance ratios were equivalent across counsellor experience, suggesting that these individual difference variables could be useful for evaluation of therapist competencies related to client engagement.

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“…Psychotherapy in BRIGHTEN Heart had a very high attendance rate. In general, community mental health attendance rates are near 50% (Williston, Block-Lerner, Wolanin, & Gardner, 2014) for adults. By comparison, our low SES, minority older adults with multiple medical problems had an overall show rate of 73%, with 51.6% completing more than 75% of sessions.…”

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“…Psychotherapy in BRIGHTEN Heart had a very high attendance rate. In general, community mental health attendance rates are near 50% (D. R. Williston, Block-Lerner, Wolanin, & Gardner, 2014) for adults.…”

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BRIGHTEN Heart intervention for depression in minority older adults: Randomized controlled trial.

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Objective: Assess the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary geriatric team intervention in decreasing symptoms of depression among urban minority older adults in primary care. Secondary outcomes included cardiometabolic syndrome and trauma. Methods: 250 African American and Hispanic older adults with PHQ-9 scores ≥8 and BMI ≥25 were recruited from six underserved urban primary care clinics. Intervention arm participants received the BRIGHTEN Heart team intervention plus membership in Generations, an older adult educational activity program; control participants received only Generations. Results: Both arms demonstrated clinically significant improvements in PHQ-9 scores at six months (−5 points, intervention and control) and 12 months (−7 points intervention, −6.5 points control); there was no significant difference in change scores between groups on depression or cardiometabolic syndrome at six months; there was a small difference in depression trajectory at 12 months (p < 0.001). More participants in the treatment group (70.7%) had greater than 50% reduction in PHQ-9 scores than the control group (56.3%) (p=.036). For those with higher PTSD symptoms (PCL-C6), improvement in depression was significantly better in the intervention arm than the control arm, regardless of baseline PHQ-9 (p=.001). In mixed models, those with higher PTSD symptoms (β=−0.012, p = < 0.001) in the intervention arm showed greater depression improvement than those with lower PTSD symptoms (β =−0.004, p = 0.001). Conclusions: The BRIGHTEN Heart intervention may be effective in reducing depression for urban minority older adults. Further research on team care interventions and screening for PTSD symptoms in primary care is warranted.

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Conceptual, Psychometric, Methodological and Value Problems in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Introduction to the Special Section, “A Critical Appraisal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy”

McKay

O’Donohue

2023

Behavior Therapy

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Brief acceptance-based intervention for increasing intake attendance at a community mental health center.

Cited by 6 publications

References 49 publications

Client attendance measures in counselling psychology trainees

Client attendance measures in counselling psychology trainees

BRIGHTEN Heart intervention for depression in minority older adults: Randomized controlled trial.

Conceptual, Psychometric, Methodological and Value Problems in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Introduction to the Special Section, “A Critical Appraisal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy”

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