Substance use treatment counselors' attitudes toward evidence-based practice: The importance of organizational context

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 379-390

  Smith, Brenda D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Counselors; Evidence based practice; Multi level models; Organizations; Substance use treatment

Indexed keywords

COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEW ENGLAND; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS;

EID: 84875178842     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2013.765480     Document Type: Article

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