On this episode of “Sanity” Dr. Jason Duncan and Dr. Sarah Becker discuss the dissemination and implementation of effective therapy for psychological disorders. Dr. Becker explains the pitfalls psychologists and psychology organizations have made in marketing specific treatments to consumers. She provides comparisons between the fields of psychology and pharmacotherapy, and she discusses lessons psychologists can learn from how medications are marketed. Strategies for effective marketing are covered, and examples are given for how these strategies can be used for psychological treatments. Dr. Becker provides tips for how both individual psychologists and psychological organizations can implement these strategies to reach a greater number of consumers. In the second half of this episode, Dr. Duncan and Dr. Becker discuss the implementation of effective treatment and how clinicians and organizations can improve their use of various therapies. Tune in for valuable information about spreading psychological science to the general public and using treatments that work!

Resources and Links:

Twitter: #CBTworks (find therapists talking about CBT)

Therapy groups on facebook (CBT for depression)

Website for therapies for parents: https://effectivechildtherapy.org/

ABCT: https://www.abct.org

Social Media Information:

CV: https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/s/sb38_cv.pdf

Twitter: @sjbeckerphd

Training Organization: New England ATTC: https://attcnetwork.org/

Email: [email protected]