Sonja Schoenwald

Summary

Affiliation: Medical University of South Carolina
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi A review of treatment adherence measurement methods
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Psychol Assess 25:146-56. 2013
  2. ncbi Multisystemic therapy: monitoring treatment fidelity
    S K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
    Fam Process 39:83-103. 2000
  3. ncbi Building bridges to evidence-based practice: the MacArthur Foundation Child System and Treatment Enhancement Projects (Child STEPs)
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Ste MC 406, P O Box 250861, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 35:66-72. 2008
  4. ncbi The international implementation of multisystemic therapy
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Eval Health Prof 31:211-25. 2008
  5. ncbi Therapist adherence and organizational effects on change in youth behavior problems one year after multisystemic therapy
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, P O Box 250861, 67 President Street, Ste MC 406, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 35:379-94. 2008
  6. ncbi Long-term youth criminal outcomes in MST transport: the impact of therapist adherence and organizational climate and structure
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 38:91-105. 2009
  7. ncbi Clinical supervision in treatment transport: effects on adherence and outcomes
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 77:410-21. 2009
  8. ncbi Workforce development and the organization of work: the science we need
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 37:71-80. 2010
  9. ncbi Toward the effective and efficient measurement of implementation fidelity
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 38:32-43. 2011
  10. ncbi A survey of the infrastructure for children's mental health services: implications for the implementation of empirically supported treatments (ESTs)
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Ste MC 406, P O Box 250861, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 35:84-97. 2008

Research Grants

  1. TRANSPORTABILITY OF NEW TREATMENTS: MST AS A TEST CASE
    Sonja Schoenwald; Fiscal Year: 2003
  2. Testing Context Effects on Treatment of Drug-Using Youth
    Sonja Schoenwald; Fiscal Year: 2006

Detail Information

Publications26

  1. ncbi A review of treatment adherence measurement methods
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Psychol Assess 25:146-56. 2013
    ....
  2. ncbi Multisystemic therapy: monitoring treatment fidelity
    S K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
    Fam Process 39:83-103. 2000
    ....
  3. ncbi Building bridges to evidence-based practice: the MacArthur Foundation Child System and Treatment Enhancement Projects (Child STEPs)
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Ste MC 406, P O Box 250861, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 35:66-72. 2008
    ..The main goal is to identify leverage points for, and barriers to, the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices for children...
  4. ncbi The international implementation of multisystemic therapy
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Eval Health Prof 31:211-25. 2008
    ....
  5. ncbi Therapist adherence and organizational effects on change in youth behavior problems one year after multisystemic therapy
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, P O Box 250861, 67 President Street, Ste MC 406, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 35:379-94. 2008
    ....
  6. ncbi Long-term youth criminal outcomes in MST transport: the impact of therapist adherence and organizational climate and structure
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 38:91-105. 2009
    ..These associations washed out in the presence of adherence, despite the fact that job satisfaction and growth and advancement were associated with adherence...
  7. ncbi Clinical supervision in treatment transport: effects on adherence and outcomes
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 77:410-21. 2009
    ..However, direct effects of supervisor and therapist adherence were observed in models including both of these variables...
  8. ncbi Workforce development and the organization of work: the science we need
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 37:71-80. 2010
    ..Three sets of questions are identified for which evidence-based answers are needed. Suggestions are provided to inform the development of a scientific agenda to answer these questions...
  9. ncbi Toward the effective and efficient measurement of implementation fidelity
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 38:32-43. 2011
    ....
  10. ncbi A survey of the infrastructure for children's mental health services: implications for the implementation of empirically supported treatments (ESTs)
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Ste MC 406, P O Box 250861, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 35:84-97. 2008
    ..Implications for EST implementation and future research are described...
  11. ncbi Toward effective quality assurance in evidence-based practice: links between expert consultation, therapist fidelity, and child outcomes
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:94-104. 2004
    ..These findings suggest the availability to clinicians of expert consultation can impact clinician fidelity to a treatment model and child outcomes...
  12. ncbi Predicting therapist adherence to a transported family-based treatment for youth
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 34:658-70. 2005
    ..Low caregiver education and African American ethnicity predicted higher adherence. With the exception of youth psychosocial functioning, indicators of severity of youth problems did not predict adherence...
  13. ncbi Transportability of multisystemic therapy: evidence for multilevel influences
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street Suite CPP, PO Box 250861, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
    Ment Health Serv Res 5:223-39. 2003
    ..Implications for the transfer of evidence-based psychosocial treatments for youth to usual care practice settings are discussed...
  14. ncbi Predictors of workforce turnover in a transported treatment program
    Ashli J Sheidow
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, 250861, Charleston, SC, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 34:45-56. 2007
    ..Perceptions of an emotionally demanding organizational climate, program salary level, and program case mix of youth did predict turnover...
  15. ncbi Statewide adoption and initial implementation of contingency management for substance-abusing adolescents
    Scott W Henggeler
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 76:556-67. 2008
    ..Overall, the findings support the amenability of public sector practitioners to adopt evidence-based practices and suggest that the predictors of adoption and initial implementation are complex and multifaceted...
  16. ncbi Treatment outcome and criminal offending by youth with sexual behavior problems
    Elizabeth J Letourneau
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Child Maltreat 13:133-44. 2008
    ..Few youth in either group had sexual offenses. The importance of these findings for clinical and policy decision making is discussed...
  17. ncbi Treatment costs for youths receiving multisystemic therapy or hospitalization after a psychiatric crisis
    Ashli J Sheidow
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, MUSC, 67 President Street, Suite CPP, Box 250861, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 55:548-54. 2004
    ..The authors conducted a cost analysis for multisystemic therapy, an evidence-based treatment that is used as an intensive community-based alternative to the hospitalization of youths presenting with psychiatric emergencies...
  18. ncbi Caregiver-therapist ethnic similarity predicts youth outcomes from an empirically based treatment
    Colleen A Halliday-Boykins
    Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 73:808-18. 2005
    ..This study shows the importance of examining the effects of both client and therapist ethnicity on outcomes from empirically based treatments...
  19. ncbi If you build it, they will come: statewide practitioner interest in contingency management for youths
    Scott W Henggeler
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29451, USA
    J Subst Abuse Treat 32:121-31. 2007
    ..The findings demonstrate a considerable amount of interest practitioners showed in both the substance abuse and mental health sectors in learning about an EBP...
  20. ncbi Client-level predictors of adherence to MST in community service settings
    Sonja K Schoenwald
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street-Suite CPP, P.O. Box 250861, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    Fam Process 42:345-59. 2003
    ..The findings suggest directions for future research on the implementation of evidence-based treatments in community settings...
  21. ncbi Transporting efficacious treatments to field settings: the link between supervisory practices and therapist fidelity in MST programs
    Scott W Henggeler
    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Suite CPP, P.O. Box 250861, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 31:155-67. 2002
    ..The findings provide a valuable step in examining the determinants of therapist fidelity to complex treatments in real-world clinical settings...
  22. ncbi Children and adolescents with sexual behavior problems
    Elizabeth J Letourneau
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
    Child Maltreat 9:49-61. 2004
    ..Youth in all groups responded with clinically relevant and statistically significant reductions in problem behaviors at posttreatment...
  23. ncbi An ethnographic study of implementation of evidence-based treatments in child mental health: first steps
    Lawrence A Palinkas
    School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0411, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 59:738-46. 2008
    ..The experiences of clinicians in regard to initial and long-term intention to use evidence-based treatments were examined in order to better understand factors involved in implementation of innovative treatments...
  24. ncbi Therapist turnover and new program sustainability in mental health clinics as a function of organizational culture, climate, and service structure
    Charles Glisson
    Children s Mental Health Services Research Center, University of Tennessee, 128 Henson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996 3332, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 35:124-33. 2008
    ....
  25. ncbi The ARC organizational and community intervention strategy for implementing evidence-based children's mental health treatments
    Charles Glisson
    Children s Mental Health Services Research Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 3332, USA
    Ment Health Serv Res 7:243-59. 2005
    ....
  26. ncbi Enhancing schools' capacity to support children in poverty: an ecological model of school-based mental health services
    Elise Cappella
    Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, 239 Greene Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 35:395-409. 2008
    ..We suggest an iterative research-practice approach to program adaptation and implementation as a means toward advancing science and developing healthy children...

Research Grants7

  1. TRANSPORTABILITY OF NEW TREATMENTS: MST AS A TEST CASE
    Sonja Schoenwald; Fiscal Year: 2003
    ..Test a mediation model of treatment effectiveness in which the impact of intra- and extra-organizational factors and individual clinician variables on outcomes is mediated by clinician adherence. ..
  2. Testing Context Effects on Treatment of Drug-Using Youth
    Sonja Schoenwald; Fiscal Year: 2006
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