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Factors Associated with Community-Partnered School Behavioral Health Clinicians' Adoption and Implementation of
Elizabeth H Connors1, Jason Schiffman2, Kathleen Stein3
1National Center for School Mental Health, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, 737 W. Lombard Street, 426, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA. econnors@som.umaryland.edu.
Abstract:
Community-partnered school behavioral health (CP-SBH) is a model whereby schools partner with local community agencies to deliver services. This mixed-methods study examined 80 CP-SBH clinicians' adoption and implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) approaches following mandated training. Forty-four clinicians were randomly assigned to one of two training conditions for a modular common elements approach to EBPs; 36 clinicians were preselected for training in a non-modular EBP. EBP knowledge improved for all training conditions at 8-month follow-up and practice element familiarity improved for modular approach training conditions, but the modular condition including ongoing consultation did not yield better results. Qualitative interviews (N = 17) highlighted multi-level influences of the CP-SBH service system and individual clinician characteristics on adoption and implementation.