Development of a clinician report measure to assess psychotherapy for depression in usual care settings Proceedings Paper

Hepner, KA, Azocar, F, Greenwood, GL et al. (2010). Development of a clinician report measure to assess psychotherapy for depression in usual care settings . ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY IN MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, 37(3), 221-229. 10.1007/s10488-009-0249-4

cited authors

  • Hepner, KA; Azocar, F; Greenwood, GL; Miranda, J; Burnam, MA

authors

abstract

  • Although mental health policy initiatives have called for quality improvement in depression care, practical tools to describe the quality of psychotherapy for depression are not available. We developed a clinician-report measure of adherence to three types of psychotherapy for depression-cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. A total of 727 clinicians from a large, national managed behavioral health care organization responded to a mail survey. The measure demonstrated good psychometric properties, including appropriate item-scale correlations, internal consistency reliability, and a three-factor structure. Our results suggest that this questionnaire may be a promising approach to describing psychotherapy for depression in usual care. © The Author(s) 2010.

publication date

  • May 1, 2010

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start page

  • 221

end page

  • 229

volume

  • 37

issue

  • 3