From Training to Treatment: Bringing Manualized Treatments to the Practicing Clinician
Author: Lauren Zitne.; Meghan Tomb .; Marilyn Camacho.; Eliot Goldman.
Source: Volume 04, Number 02, Spring 2004 , pp.35-41(7)
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Abstract:
Today’s mental health care system, with high costs and ongoing pressures from third-party payers and policy makers, requires that treatments maximize effectiveness while minimizing costs (Deegear & Lawson, 2003). Given the current demands on mental health services delivery, there has been a movement toward time-limited and shortterm approaches. The practice of manualized treatments allows for stronger evidence of treatment effects, given that the effects can be more confidently attributed to the treatment.Keywords:
Affiliations:
1: Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health, Columbia University.