CTN webinar: The challenge of evidence-based group therapy for substance use disorders.

The field of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment suffers from a “modality mismatch,” in which researchers primarily examine individual therapies even while real-world psychosocial clinicians primarily facilitate groups (especially open groups).

Although understandable reasons exist for this state of affairs, group therapy is not diminishing anytime soon; moreover, clinicians may be ill-equipped at using evidence-based treatments (EBTs) in group format, given limited training along with non-trivial structural differences between modalities.

This one-hour webinar included a review of SUD group therapy research and clinical resources (including two CTN studies), with a focus on facilitators and barriers for using EBTs in group format.

Presenter Dennis C. Wendt, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UW School of Medicine.

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Categories: Clinical Coordinating Center webinar, Evidence-based treatment, Group therapy, Training
Tags: Webinar
Authors : Wendt, Dennis C.
Source : Produced by the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network's Clinical Coordinating Center, March 23, 2016