TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes towards psychotherapy manuals among clinicians treating eating disorders
AU - Waller, Glenn
AU - Mountford, Victoria A.
AU - Tatham, Madeleine
AU - Turner, Hannah
AU - Gabriel, Chloe
AU - Webber, Rebecca
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - Clinicians have relatively low uptake and implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies for the eating disorders, and this problem appears to be associated with low use of manualized approaches. This study examines clinicians' positive and negative attitudes to manuals, and possible beliefs and emotional factors that might drive those attitudes. The participants were 125 psychological therapists working with eating-disordered patients. Each completed standardised measures of attitudes to manuals and emotional states. A number of beliefs about the content of manuals were associated with both positive attitudes to the outcome of treatment and negative attitudes to their impact on the treatment process. In addition, a more positive mood was associated with more positive attitudes. Suggestions are made regarding how attitudes might be made more positive, in order to facilitate the use of evidence-based therapies for eating disorders.
AB - Clinicians have relatively low uptake and implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies for the eating disorders, and this problem appears to be associated with low use of manualized approaches. This study examines clinicians' positive and negative attitudes to manuals, and possible beliefs and emotional factors that might drive those attitudes. The participants were 125 psychological therapists working with eating-disordered patients. Each completed standardised measures of attitudes to manuals and emotional states. A number of beliefs about the content of manuals were associated with both positive attitudes to the outcome of treatment and negative attitudes to their impact on the treatment process. In addition, a more positive mood was associated with more positive attitudes. Suggestions are made regarding how attitudes might be made more positive, in order to facilitate the use of evidence-based therapies for eating disorders.
KW - attitudes
KW - depression
KW - eating disorders
KW - evidence-based therapy
KW - manuals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886839427&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.brat.2013.10.004
DO - 10.1016/j.brat.2013.10.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 24185103
AN - SCOPUS:84886839427
SN - 0005-7967
VL - 51
SP - 840
EP - 844
JO - Behaviour Research and Therapy
JF - Behaviour Research and Therapy
IS - 12
ER -