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An exploration of students' perceptions of empirically supported treatments: the significance of gender and ethnicity.
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A secondary analysis of a quasi-experimental study was conducted to evaluate differences in students 'perceptions of empirically supported treatments (ESTS) randomized to experimental (n= 10) and attention-control (n= 10) manual-based therapy interventions. The results indicated that attitudinal changes took place for both groups. The results further indicated that males have more favorable views of ESTs and of the research training environment, while African-Americans have less favorable attitudes about manual usefulness. Implications are suggested for training students to use ESTs. Over the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift in the pedagogy of community counselors (i.e., mental health, drug and alcohol). Training has begun to emphasize the use of empirically supported treatments (Gotham, 2004; Fals-Stewart, Logsdon, & Birchler, 2004; Payne, Schreiber, & Riley, 2004) to foster counselor accountability and to meet managed care mandates (Anderson, Holberg, & Carson, 2000; Levant, 2004; Oliver, 2002). Empirically supported treatments (ESTs) or treatment manuals are standard clinical interventions designed for specific populations with systematic guidelines (Chamberless et al., 1998; Scaturo, 2001). ESTs have increasingly become an integral part of graduate and undergraduate education. However, there is lack of research on trainees' perceptions of ESTs. Addis and Krasow (2000) suggest that research in this area is necessary to understand the diffusion of ESTs in graduate and undergraduate counseling programs. The present study sought to measure changes in graduate and undergraduate students' perceptions of ESTs from the beginning to the end of the semester. In particular, we sought to measure differences in attitudes toward ESTs between both male and female students and students of color and Eurocentric students randomized to experimental and attention-control manual-based therapy interventions. LITERATURE REVIEW The integration of science and practice in counseling programs has attained a growing level of consensus among researchers in the field (Cukrowicz et al., 2005). In fact, researchers have...See the full content of this document
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