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- Title
SETTING UP INPATIENT BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS: THE STAFF NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
- Authors
Corrigan, Patrick W.; Holmes, E. Paul; Luchins, Daniel; Parks, Joseph; Basit, Abdul; DeLaney, Ethel; Kayton-Weinberg, Donna
- Abstract
Despite the success that behavior therapy has demonstrated in treating severely mentally ill adults, widespread impact of behavioral treatments on this population has been limited because the staff of many inpatient settings do not routinely utilize these strategies. Surveying staff regarding their perception of programmatic and organizational needs is proposed as a valuable first step for selecting behavioral strategies to be introduced in these settings. Goldfried and D'Zurilla (1969) developed a behavioral assessment survey that is especially useful for identifying staff needs vis-a-vis behavioral rehabilitation. Using these strategies, survey questions addressed five problem areas: Administrative , Staff, Patient, Resource, and Programmatic. Results using this survey with 40 clinicians on the extended care unit of a state hospital showed that staff members had greatest concern with the Patient Problem Area (i.e., aversive patient behaviors that are not sufficiently addressed by treatment plans). Further analyses showed staff members were interested in addressing Patient concerns using incentive procedures. The needs assessment in this study not only provided useful information that might be generalized to other treatment setting,. but also showcased a reliable survey approach that program developers might implement prior to designing training curricula for behaviorally naive staff in inpatient settings.
- Subjects
BEHAVIOR therapy; BEHAVIORAL assessment; INPATIENT care; TREATMENT programs; MEDICAL personnel; NEEDS assessment
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 1994, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.2360090102