Shah A, Scogin F, Presnell A, Morthland M, Kaufman A
Soc Work Res. 2013 Jun 1;37(2):137-145. doi: 10.1093/swr/svt011.
A large proportion of service providers in our country are social workers. The use of social workers as mental health therapists however, has not been adequately evaluated in the literature. This aim of this study was to evaluate a sample of clinically trained, masters-level social workers in their delivery of in-home Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to a group of primarily rural, medically frail older adults. The social workers in this study received extensive didactic and experiential CBT training. Audio-taped sessions were randomly selected and evaluated independently. Results showed that the social workers adequately delivered CBT as measured by the Cognitive Therapy Scale (CTS). Older adult participants also evidenced pre-post treatment improvements suggesting that the social workers' delivery of CBT facilitated improvement. These results suggest that social workers can be viable providers of CBT in clinical and research settings.
我国很大一部分服务提供者是社会工作者。然而，文献中尚未对将社会工作者用作心理健康治疗师进行充分评估。本研究的目的是评估一组经过临床培训的硕士水平社会工作者，他们为一群主要是农村地区、身体虚弱的老年人提供居家认知行为疗法（CBT）的情况。本研究中的社会工作者接受了广泛的CBT理论和实践培训。随机选择录音课程并进行独立评估。结果表明，根据认知治疗量表（CTS）衡量，社会工作者能够充分提供CBT。老年参与者在治疗前后也有改善迹象，这表明社会工作者提供的CBT促进了改善。这些结果表明，社会工作者在临床和研究环境中可以成为CBT的可行提供者。
