Guidance for Behavioral Treatment Providers: Research on Knowledge and Skill Enhancement

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Guidance for Behavioral Treatment Providers: Research on Knowledge and Skill Enhancement: The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is committed to promoting research activities that result in improved drug abuse treatment and reductions in HIV/AIDS risk behavior in drug-dependent individuals. NIDA's behavioral therapies development program has supported the development and testing of a number of efficacious therapies for drug abuse and dependence and HIV/AIDS risk. The purpose of this initiative is to support studies for developing and testing novel, creative approaches to clinical training and supervision that will enhance community treatment providers' knowledge and skills to administer behavioral treatments with some evidence of efficacy for drug abuse and/or interventions for HIV/AIDS risk reduction among in-treatment drug abusers. This RFA especially encourages theory-driven approaches to the development of novel training and supervision methods, i.e., approaches that apply knowledge derived from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, medical education, and other fields of science to training and supervision. It is NOT intended to support the development of new behavioral therapies, studies of strategies to reduce organizational barriers to implementing training in a given program, program evaluation studies of existing training approaches, or development of training and supervision methods for treatments without any documented evidence of efficacy. Evidence of efficacy for the purpose of this RFA is defined as findings published or in press in a peer reviewed journal, from one or more well-designed randomized clinical trials conducted with drug users that demonstrated reductions in drug use, HIV/AIDS risk behavior or other closely related outcomes. An entire treatment or a single component of an efficacious treatment may be selected for training. The term "behavioral therapy" is used here in a broad sense and includes various forms of psychotherapy, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, family therapy, skills training, counseling, and other rehabilitative therapies. For the purpose of this RFA, "treatment providers" includes therapists, counselors, and others who provide behavioral therapies (as defined above) to people in drug treatment and who would be targets for clinical training and supervision.