NCT07262372 · University of Arkansas
Supervision in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs
What this study is about
Substance use disorders such as opioid addiction affect millions of adults in the United States each year, but the delivery of high-quality, effective addiction services is disrupted by organizational issues such as counselor burnout and turnover.
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Substance use disorders such as opioid addiction affect millions of adults in the United States each year, but the delivery of high-quality, effective addiction services is disrupted by organizational issues such as counselor burnout and turnover. Clinical supervisors are essential for supporting counselors in specialty addiction treatment programs, but few supervisors receive supervision-focused training. This project seeks to develop and pilot an evidence-based supervision strategy that has a high potential to enhance supervision and result in improved counselors' well-being and performance and, in turn, to improve client outcomes.
Interventions
OTHER
FOCUS supervision strategy
The FOCUS supervision strategy provides a strenghts-based model for supervision. It is built around three core components: (1) Five pillars for effective supervision interactions, (2) practical skills that operationalize these principles, and (3) a set of experiential activities that provide foundational learnings for staff to practice the skills around real-life situations (from which future client-specific interventions can be built). In this study, FOCUS is being tailored for SUD treatment settings.
Primary outcome measures
Counselor self-efficacy
Time frame: Every 6 months for 2 years
Self-reported survey response at the counselor level (Efficacy subscale on TCU ORC; 1-5 Likert scale, higher scores are better; Lehman WEK, Greener JM, Simpson DD. Assessing organizational readiness for change. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2002;22(4):197-209. doi: 10.1016/S0740-5472(02)00233-7.)
Who can participate
This study lists these criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov. A study coordinator reviews eligibility during screening — this page does not determine whether you qualify.
Inclusion criteria
- Serves as a supervisor (i.e., oversee work of counselors) or counselor (i.e., directly work with clients) at a substance use treatment facility/program
- Program/facility provides residential services
Exclusion criteria
- Supervisors contracted (not employed) by the facility
Where
- Little Rock, Arkansas
Collaborators
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Chestnut Health Systems
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