In 2005, the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education announced its transition to an outcomes-based accreditation model for C/MFT training programs. This transition to outcomes-based C/MFT education was lauded for bringing newfound freedom to instructors in C/MFT graduate programs and for ushering a paradigm shift toward collaborative, student-responsive clinical pedagogy in C/MFT training. The current study utilized a systematic research synthesis approach to explore how trainees' experiences are being conceptualized in the empirical research on master's-level C/MFT following the field's transition to outcomes-based education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRacism remains a problem in academic medicine, and little guidance is available on how to create lasting change. This column describes the authors' efforts to develop a task force grounded in theory on community coalition development to build a representative and sustainable coalition, which was initially formed to advance antiracism in an academic psychiatry department. The authors share the processes used and lessons learned to help other departments, academic medical centers, and medical systems work to combat racism.
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September 2025
Introduction: Rural areas of the U.S. face persistent challenges with opioid-related fatalities and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment retention.
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July 2025
Feasibility, the degree to which an innovation is successfully carried out in a given setting, is key to whether an intervention will be implemented as planned and is connected to implementation success and service outcomes. In settings with limited resources, feasibility may be a particularly important determinant of whether an intervention is adopted and/or sustained over time. However, there is limited consensus on how to define, measure, and report feasibility in research conducted in community mental health settings.
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May 2025
Background: Clinicians need supports beyond training to deliver evidence-based treatments with fidelity. Workplace-based clinical supervision often is a commonly provided support in community mental health, yet too few studies have empirically examined supervision and its impact on clinician fidelity and treatment delivery.
Method: Building on a Washington State-funded evidence-based treatment initiative (CBT+), we conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT), testing two supervision conditions delivered by workplace-based supervisors (supervisors employed by community mental health organizations).