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Pilot evaluation of brief training in CBT for primary care practitioners

Lookup NU author(s): Lesley Maunder, Dr Derek Milne

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Abstract

Mental health work is now core to primary care practice, and CBT shows promise as a guiding approach. However, dissemination to primary care practitioners has not yet been demonstrated. A training intervention (a brief CPD workshop of 3-4 hours) plus four case discussion groups lasting 1.5 hours each, plus manual, was evaluated with a convenience sample of N = 25 primary care practitioners. Five adapted self-report questionnaires measured their reactions, learning, and transfer, within a pre-post research design. The participants regarded the training and materials as acceptable. Their performance on declarative and procedural quizzes improved significantly by the post-test, as did their reported transfer of CBT to their primary care work. These positive findings indicate that the training package may be able to produce transferable impacts on primary care practitioners' use of CBT. But the reliance on self-report and the simple design preclude definitive conclusions. Suggestions for an improved research design are offered, together with suggestions on dissemination. © 2008 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

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Author(s): Maunder L, Milne D, Cameron L

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Year: 2008

Volume: 36

Issue: 3

Pages: 341-351

Print publication date: 01/05/2008

Date deposited: 16/03/2011

ISSN (print): 1352-4658

ISSN (electronic): 1469-1833

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465808004220

DOI: 10.1017/S1352465808004220

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