Turner, H., Tatham, M., Lant, M. et al. (2 more authors) (2014) Clinicians' concerns about delivering cognitive-behavioural therapy for eating disorders. BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY, 57. pp. 38-42. ISSN 0005-7967
Abstract
Despite research supporting the effectiveness of evidence-based interventions in the treatment of eating disorders, those interventions are under-utilised in routine clinical practice, possibly due to clinicians' concerns about delivering the relevant techniques. This study examined what elements of therapy clinicians worry about when delivering cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for the eating disorders, and what clinician variables are associated with such concerns. The participants were 113 clinicians who used individual CBT with eating disorder patients. They completed a novel measure of concerns about delivering elements of CBT, as well as demographic characteristics and a standardised measure of intolerance of uncertainty. Clinicians worried most about body image work and ending treatment, but least about delivering psychoeducation. Their concerns fell into four distinct factors. Older, more experienced clinicians worried less about delivering the CBT techniques, but those with greater levels of prospective and inhibitory anxiety worried more about specific factors in the CBT techniques. Clinicians' capacity to tolerate uncertainty might impair their delivery of evidence-based CBT, and merits consideration as a target in training and supervision of CBT clinicians.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Behaviour Research and Therapy. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Eating disorders; Cognitive-behavioural therapy; Clinician; Anxiety; Effectiveness |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2016 13:24 |
Last Modified: | 27 Apr 2016 01:47 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2014.04.003 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.brat.2014.04.003 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:94456 |