SBIR-STTR Award

The proposed research is directed toward the development of a measurement technology that can reliably and accurately indicate changes in client attitudes and perceptions that result from treatment. The instrument will be designed to: (1) identify the critical dimensions of change that are characteristic of the resocialization of successfully rehabilitated drug addicts; (2) measure the perceptual and motivational changes producedby treatment and the progress of resocialization along its critical dimensions and identify the critical elements in the treatment process; and (3) allow use of information about the client's perceptual and motivational dispositions and their changes to help therapeutic counseling take into account individual client dispositions that might otherwise be ignored.

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Alcoholism - Drinking, Alcoholism Treatment And Rehabilitation, Drugs Abuse, Drugs Addiction Treatment And Rehabilitation, Therapy Evaluation, Human National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

This research is directed toward the development of a psychological measurement technology that can reliably and accurately measure changes in client attitudes and perceptions that result from treatment. Instruments will be developed to:(1) assess psychosocial dimensions that are critical to the resocialization of successfully rehabilitated drug addicts;(2) measure the perceptual and motivational changes produced by treatment and use this process evaluation for measuring the progress of resocialization along its critical dimensions; and(3) provide information on the client's perceptual and motivational dispositions and changes that could be made in therapeutic counseling to adapt to these dispositions, which might otherwise be ignored.The first part of the project is focused on the development of individual- and group-based diagnostic instruments. In the following phase of evaluation, the instruments will be tested across treatment populations representing various treatment modalities, sex, age, income, and culture groups. The final instrument will be simple and will take one-half hour to be administered.

Anticipated Results:
There is intense interest in the field in these instruments, Marketing is planned to concentrate on the main areas of practical interest in program evaluation and in the improvement of program effects. Workshops, professional meetings, and publications will provide the main vehicles for marketing the instruments.

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Drugs Abuse, Drugs Addiction Treatment And Rehabilitation, Psychological Tests, Behavior Assessment-Measurement, Therapy Evaluation, Human Diagnostic Tests, Design, Development And Evaluation Of Diagnostic Tests, Drugs Abuse, Drugs Addiction Prevention, Mental Health Services, Counseling, Group, Psychology Social, Social Behavior, Psychology Social, Social Perception, Psychology, Attitude To Health And Health Problems, Psychology, Motivation, Psychology, Personality Development, Self-Concept, Social Self-Reliance, Self Help Organizations Human, Clinical National Institute On Drug Abuse (NIDA)