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Guidelines for adapting manualized interventions for new target populations: A step‐wise approach using anger management as a model.

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: The use of manual-based interventions tends to improve client outcomes and promote replicability. With an increasingly strong link between funding and the use of empirically supported prevention and intervention programs, manual development and adaptation have become research priorities. As a result, researchers and scholars have generated guidelines for developing manuals from scratch, but there are no extant guidelines for adapting empirically supported, manualized prevention and intervention programs for use with new populations. Thus, this article proposes step-by-step guidelines for the manual adaptation process. It also describes two adaptations of an extensively researched anger management intervention to exemplify how an empirically supported program was systematically and efficiently adapted to achieve similar outcomes with vastly different populations in unique settings.

Source: Clinical Psychology Science and Practice

DOI: 10.1111/cpsp.12011

Authors: Naomi E. S. Goldstein, Kathleen A. Kemp, Stephen S. Leff, John E. Lochman

Institutions: Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Alabama

Language: English

Topic: Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse