family therapy training and implementation platform (fttip) supplement study

Conditions: Traditional Face to Face Training; Family Therapy Training and Implementation Platform (FTTIP)

Summary: the goal of this observational study is to learn about therapists' and agency leaders' experience with evidenced based treatments and the family therapy training and implementation platform (fttip). the main questions it aims to answer are: 1. what are the perceptions and experiences of the therapists about the process of learning and practicing specific culturally informed flexible family based treatment for adolescents (ciffta) competencies from the platform? 2. what are therapists' unique experiences related to implementation of the evidenced based treatment (ebt), delivery of competencies learned, and the application of ebt in a real-world context? 3. what are agency leaders' experiences in facilitating ebts at their agencies what are the barriers that can be addressed by the organizational readiness work? 4. what is the experience of the entire agency with the platform, consultation process, perceived cost-benefit, and agency readiness?

the supplement project will have multiple components that augment the parent study by collecting qualitative data that we can combine with the parent study's quantitative data to better understand the experiences of trainees and agency leaders with the platform.twenty trainees (randomly selected from the 75 ciffta parent study trainees) and 16 agency leaders from the sample of the parent study will be included. the proposed supplement aims to: 1) gather perceptions and experiences of the trainees about the process of learning and practicing specific ciffta competencies from the platform (time 1 interview) and later, about their unique experiences related to implementation of the ebt, delivery of competencies learned, and the application of ebt in a real-world context (time 2); and 2) gain a deeper understanding from leaders of their experiences in facilitating ebts at their agencies, the identification of barriers that can be addressed by the organizational readiness work (time 1), and later regarding their agencies experience with the platform, consultation process, perceived cost-benefit, and agency readiness (at time 2).

Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: * bachelors level counselor with 2 years of experience or master's level counselors and therapists who have not had family therapy training in the past year and who are broadly representative of the potential trainees in the general population, including educational background and job experience with different client populations (e.g., varied demographics and presenting problems). * all therapists must be actively providing treatment to youth and be willing to deliver the family intervention to at least one family during the project period * therapists must be enrolled in the parent grant and be randomized to the fttip condition * agency leaders must be enrolled in the parent grant study * to be included in the study, agency leaders must have the authority to allocate agency resources (e.g., giving trainees protected time to participate in training activities, allowing smaller caseloads as they begin implementation) and be willing to participate in agency readiness and implementation consultation. exclusion criteria: * • we are not limiting inclusion of any group by sex/gender, race, and/or ethnicity * agencies that are unwilling to participate in all study activities, that have nontraditional funding sources (e.g., totally charity funded), or that are so small they cannot assign sufficient counselors to the study.

Keywords: mental health family therapy mental health training