Open AccessGuidelines for Adapting Manualized Interventions for New Target Populations: A Step‐Wise Approach Using Anger Management as a Model
Author(s) -
Goldstein Naomi E. S.,
Kemp Kathleen A.,
Leff Stephen S.,
Lochman John E.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical psychology: science and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.285
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1468-2850
pISSN - 0969-5893
DOI - 10.1111/cpsp.12011
Subject(s) - extant taxon , psychological intervention , anger management , intervention (counseling) , anger , adaptation (eye) , psychology , process (computing) , applied psychology , process management , clinical psychology , computer science , business , psychiatry , evolutionary biology , neuroscience , biology , operating system
The use of manual‐based interventions tends to improve client outcomes and promote replicability. With an increasingly strong link between funding and the use of empirically supported prevention and intervention programs, manual development and adaptation have become research priorities. As a result, researchers and scholars have generated guidelines for developing manuals from scratch, but there are no extant guidelines for adapting empirically supported, manualized prevention and intervention programs for use with new populations. Thus, this article proposes step‐by‐step guidelines for the manual adaptation process. It also describes two adaptations of an extensively researched anger management intervention to exemplify how an empirically supported program was systematically and efficiently adapted to achieve similar outcomes with vastly different populations in unique settings.