Transporting Clinical Research to Community Settings: Designing and Conducting a Multisite Trial of Brief Strategic Family Therapy

NIDA

This paper describes the development and implementation of a trial of Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), an evidence- based drug intervention for adolescents, in eight community substance abuse treatment programs. Researchers and treat- ment programs collaborated closely to identify and overcome challenges, many of them related to achieving results that were both scientifically rigorous and applicable to the widest possible variety of adolescent substance abuse treatment programs. To meet these challenges, the collaborative team drew on lessons and practices from efficacy, effectiveness, and implementation research.

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