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IMPLEMENTATION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF CHILD‐PARENT PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE ROLE OF REFLECTIVE CONSULTATION IN THE LEARNING COLLABORATIVE MODEL
Author(s) -
Noroña Carmen Rosa,
Acker Michelle L.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/imhj.21607
Subject(s) - reflective practice , workforce , sustainability , process (computing) , mental health , evidence based practice , psychology , collaborative learning , medical education , knowledge management , medicine , psychotherapist , pedagogy , political science , computer science , alternative medicine , ecology , pathology , law , biology , operating system
Recent implementation science in mental health has focused on identifying the most effective strategies to disseminate and implement evidence‐based treatments (EBTs) into real‐world practice settings. The learning collaborative training methodology and its use of expert trainers/consultants have become increasingly popular as one of these approaches. Moreover, there is preliminary evidence that ongoing expert consultation may increase the adoption, learning, and sustainability of EBTs by an already practicing workforce and, consequently, help trainers, practitioners, and organizations address implementation barriers. This article describes the authors’ experiences in facilitating Child‐Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) training and explores the role of reflective clinical consultation as an active process that supports the implementation of a rich, but complex, model that requires sophisticated knowledge and skills from practitioners. It examines the intricate range of the CPP consultant's functions, which ultimately support clinicians’ reflective practice as they learn and adopt this EBT. Reflective consultation is proposed as an essential component for the integration of knowledge, experience, and emotions in practitioners and as a catalyst for organizational change. Using their voices as trainers–consultants and those of their trainees, the authors discuss the implications of reflective consultation for the effective implementation and sustainability of CPP. Reflections are offered on lessons learned.