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Therapists' adherence and competence and treatment discrimination in the NIDA Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study
Author(s) -
Barber Jacques P.,
Foltz Carol,
CritsChristoph Paul,
Chittams Jesse
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.10186
Subject(s) - psychology , psychosocial , competence (human resources) , clinical psychology , psychological intervention , cocaine dependence , psychotherapist , cocaine abuse , substance abuse , cognition , psychiatry , addiction , social psychology
The National Institute on Drug Abuse Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study was designed to assess the efficacy of four different psychosocial interventions (cognitive therapy, supportive–expressive dynamic therapy, and individual and group drug counseling) for cocaine dependence. This report addresses the treatment integrity and discriminability of the three individual treatments. Therapists' adherence and competence for all three individual treatments during early and late sessions were rated reliably by three sets of independent expert judges (one set of expert clinicians for each treatment condition). Results indicated that therapists and counselors made use of the therapeutic techniques described in their respective treatment manuals rather than those from different treatment manuals. Thus, treatments were easily discriminable by the independent judges. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.