Methods for Disseminating Evidence-based Treatments from the Frontlines of Community Treatment Programs (3rd edition).

This workshop, the third dissemination workshop organized by the CTN Research Utilization Committee (RUC), highlighted different methods CTPs have used to disseminate evidence-based treatment into their practice settings. Speakers from a number of community treatment providers presented at the workshop, which focused primarily on smoking cessation and implementation of the Matrix Model.

Presentations included:

Nicotine Replacement Prescribing Trends in a Large Psychiatric Hospital, Before and After Implementation of a Hospital-Wide Smoking Ban by Antoine Douaihy, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, ATS Node

Recovery Network of Programs, Inc. (RNP) Tobacco Dependence Treatment Pilot by John Hamilton, LMFT, LADC, Regional Network of Programs, Inc., Connecticut, NEC Node

We Still Haven’t Come a Long Way, Baby! Smoking Cessation Efforts in an Oregon CTP by Lucy Zammarelli, MA, Willamette Family, Inc., WS Node; and Barbara Tajima, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF, WS Node

Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment with Adolescents by Martin Moskowitz, LCSW and Seamus McEntee, LMSW, Mineola Community Treatment Center, NSLIJ, New York

The Matrix Model of Intensive Outpatient Treatment by Jeanne Obert, MFT, MSM, Matrix Institute on Addictions, California