Speaker
Presentation in Spanish
HANNAH CHRISTIANSEN
UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG. GERMANY
Dr. Christiansen is a Professor of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at Philipps University Marburg (Germany), where she leads the Psychotherapy Training Institute for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and the Child and Adolescent Clinic. She has extensive experience in ADHD, child development, and psychotherapy.
Dr. Christiansen has been involved in significant research projects, including her leadership of the Youth Mental Health infrastructure at the German Center for Mental Health and her research on ADHD in the classroom, as well as the treatment of children who are victims of abuse and neglect.
Implementation and dissemination of evidence-based interventions in psychotherapeutic outpatient care
Nowadays, so many randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews are published daily in the health sector that it is no longer possible for researchers and practitioners to keep track of this literature. At the same time, there is a lack of systematic implementation and dissemination studies. In other words, we know quite well what works and how, but not whether it also works in practice and routine care.
The research question was: How can an evidence-based, modularised intervention programme be successfully implemented and disseminated in psychotherapeutic care? Based on the ‘Managing and Adapting Practice’ (MAP) programme, an evidence-based, modularised intervention programme for psychotherapy with children and adolescents, MAP is being taught to students in the Master’s degree programmes in psychology and psychotherapy at various university locations in Germany; MAP is also being taught in psychotherapy training at the Marburg Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training (KJ-IPAM) and used as a standard intervention at the KJ-IPAM. MAP is continuously evaluated at the university locations; in Marburg, the 4th year of the programme is currently underway. I present aggregated data from different years.
These show that MAP could be learnt and implemented well and that there was an increase in application and action skills. I further present the implementation of MAP in a large psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic and how to adhere to evidence based standards in every day care. To improve care, more evidence needs to be put into practice. With MAP, an evidence-based, modularised psychotherapeutic intervention programme can be successfully implemented and disseminated. The next step is to examine whether MAP can achieve comparable success to gold standard care.
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