Empirically Supported Psychological Treatments: Implementing the Tolin Criteria to Advance Research and Practice
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Presenter: Dr. Cassandra Boness and Margaret Paul
Dr. Boness is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico. She holds appointments in the Department of Psychology and at the Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions. She has been an active member, and now co-chair, of the APA Division 12 Committee on Science and Practice since 2018. She has published extensively on the empirically supported treatment criteria that are the focus of this webinar.
Margaret Paul is a 4th year clinical psychologist PhD candidate at St. Louis university. She has worked as a graduate student committee member on APA Division 12’s Committee on Science and Practice for the past two years. In doing so, she has evaluated submissions that use the Tolin Criteria (Tolin et al., 2015) to determine the strength of evidence for a given psychological treatment.
Overview:
In 1995, a task force created by the American Psychological Association Society of Clinical Psychology (SCP; Division 12) established a preliminary list of empirically supported psychological treatments (ESTs). In 1996, a subsequent task force enhanced the list by developing efficacy criteria to more rigorously evaluate the evidence-base for psychological treatments (Chambless et al., 1996). In 2015, recognizing the dramatic increase in the number of treatment outcome studies, the variety of treatments studied, and the quality of available evidence, Tolin and colleagues (2015) developed a new model for evaluating ESTs. This model, adopted by the SCP, became colloquially referred to as the “Tolin Criteria.” To inform the process for implementing the Tolin Criteria and provide an exemplar, the SCP Committee on Science and Practice conducted and published a systematic review of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (Boness et al., 2020). Finding its implementation feasible, the Committee subsequently developed a manual to standardize future evaluations (Boness et al., 2021) and support independent teams in applying the Tolin Criteria. To date, five treatments have been evaluated with the Tolin Criteria and one is in progress. The proposed skill building session will describe the Tolin Criteria, provide historical context, and demonstrate a step-by-step method for applying the criteria using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for substance use disorders as an example (Boness et al., 2023). The availability of supports and resources to clinicians and/or researchers considering implementation of the criteria will be discussed.
Learning Objectives: Intended Audience: Intermediate
- Describe the evolution of the empirically supported psychological treatment criteria
- Demonstrate initial knowledge of how to apply the empirically supported treatment criteria to a range of psychological treatments
- Explain the importance of the empirically supported treatment list and how it is used by administrators, educators, clinicians, and the community more broadly
Description
Presenter: Dr. Cassandra Boness and Margaret Paul
Dr. Boness is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico. She holds appointments in the Department of Psychology and at the Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions. She has been an active member, and now co-chair, of the APA Division 12 Committee on Science and Practice since 2018. She has published extensively on the empirically supported treatment criteria that are the focus of this webinar.
Margaret Paul is a 4th year clinical psychologist PhD candidate at St. Louis university. She has worked as a graduate student committee member on APA Division 12’s Committee on Science and Practice for the past two years. In doing so, she has evaluated submissions that use the Tolin Criteria (Tolin et al., 2015) to determine the strength of evidence for a given psychological treatment.
Overview:
In 1995, a task force created by the American Psychological Association Society of Clinical Psychology (SCP; Division 12) established a preliminary list of empirically supported psychological treatments (ESTs). In 1996, a subsequent task force enhanced the list by developing efficacy criteria to more rigorously evaluate the evidence-base for psychological treatments (Chambless et al., 1996). In 2015, recognizing the dramatic increase in the number of treatment outcome studies, the variety of treatments studied, and the quality of available evidence, Tolin and colleagues (2015) developed a new model for evaluating ESTs. This model, adopted by the SCP, became colloquially referred to as the “Tolin Criteria.” To inform the process for implementing the Tolin Criteria and provide an exemplar, the SCP Committee on Science and Practice conducted and published a systematic review of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (Boness et al., 2020). Finding its implementation feasible, the Committee subsequently developed a manual to standardize future evaluations (Boness et al., 2021) and support independent teams in applying the Tolin Criteria. To date, five treatments have been evaluated with the Tolin Criteria and one is in progress. The proposed skill building session will describe the Tolin Criteria, provide historical context, and demonstrate a step-by-step method for applying the criteria using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for substance use disorders as an example (Boness et al., 2023). The availability of supports and resources to clinicians and/or researchers considering implementation of the criteria will be discussed.
Learning Objectives: Intended Audience: Intermediate
- Describe the evolution of the empirically supported psychological treatment criteria
- Demonstrate initial knowledge of how to apply the empirically supported treatment criteria to a range of psychological treatments
- Explain the importance of the empirically supported treatment list and how it is used by administrators, educators, clinicians, and the community more broadly
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