Digital cognitive-behavioral therapy for substance use: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Prior meta-analyses have evaluated digital interventions for alcohol exclusively and alcohol/tobacco combined. These meta-analyses showed positive outcomes pertaining to alcohol and alcohol/tobacco combined. Yet questions remain pertaining to the effect of digital cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) on reducing alcohol and drug use.

Cultural Trauma Scale: Psychometric evaluation of Black men's beliefs, emotions, and coping.

Unlabelled: Racism and gender-based prejudice produce a synergistic and toxic effect that necessitates analysis. There is a need to conduct more research with Black men as their experiences with race-based trauma may differ, given their concurrent disproportionate exposure to other forms of violence.

Objective: The study's purpose was to develop items for and evaluate the factor structure and internal consistency of the Cultural Trauma Scale (CuTS) in an exclusive sample of Black men.

O-Know Opioid Knowledge Test: Development and Psychometric Testing in a Community Setting.

Given the various sources and consequences of opioid use disorder (OUD) stigma, the mechanisms by which stigma occurs becomes more important. Educational deficits regarding OUD as a disease and treatment influence OUD stigma. The purpose of the study was to develop, pilot test and psychometrically evaluate the Opioid-Knowledge (O-Know) test in a community setting.

The racial pandemic experienced by Black American men: Cognitive-behavioral and structural implications.

Issues of systemic racism, mass incarceration, and cultural trauma (CT) are linked to emotional sequelae sufficient for treatment. However, attempts to explain the psychosocial reactions of Black American (BA) men to racial injustice and treat CT must be considered in the context of the current and past structural environments in which they live. The purpose of the present study was to obtain in-depth, thick description of two related factors: BA males' perceptions of injustice during the racial pandemic and the consequent psychosocial implications for theory and treatment.

Gregory Research Beliefs Scale: Preliminary confirmatory factor analysis of convergent construct validity.

: A number of factors underscore the importance of validly measuring social work students' beliefs regarding research and social work practice. The Gregory Research Beliefs Scale (GRBS) purports to measure social work students' beliefs about the general value of research for social work practice. The purpose of the present study was to preliminarily determine the convergent validity of the GRBS.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy and buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Recent systematic reviews have questioned the ability of psychosocial intervention to add substantive benefit to buprenorphine therapy. The purpose of the present meta-analysis was to test the random effects model (REM) null hypothesis that, for opioid use disorder (OUD) and opioid biological sample outcomes, the summary effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) + buprenorphine randomized controlled trials (RCTs) = 0. A systematic review was conducted searching electronic databases and the reference lists of included studies.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Relationship Distress: Meta-analysis of RCTs with Social Work Implications.

Purpose: The purpose of the present meta-analysis is twofold: 1) determine the aggregated statistical effect of cognitive-behavioral couples therapy (CBCT) for relationship distress in randomized controlled trials and 2) use the findings to inform clinical social work practice and research.

Methods: A systematic review was conducted using electronic databases and the reference lists of included studies. The random effects model meta-analysis used a hedges' g effect size.

Beliefs about research and social work practice: a systematic psychometric review of scales.

The purpose of the author in this systematic psychometric review includes: providing social work researchers, educators, and administrators with a summary of descriptive psychometric information pertaining to scales which measure social workers' beliefs about research and social work practice, evaluating chronological changes in psychometric/statistical methodology, and summarizing the role current and future scale development efforts have in improving the use of evidence-based social work practice. Using predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria, electronic databases and reference lists of included studies were reviewed and coded for methodological and psychometric properties. Seventeen studies satisfied inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Gregory research beliefs scale: discriminant construct, concurrent criterion, and known-groups validity.

The purpose of the author in this study was to evaluate the discriminant construct, concurrent criterion, and known-groups validity of the Gregory Research Beliefs Scale (GRBS). Data was collected from masters and bachelors level social work students via online and traditional classroom settings. The Gregory Research Beliefs Scale's discriminant construct validity was supported via principal component and confirmatory factor analysis.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression in bipolar disorder: a meta-analysis.

Given the prevalence of null hypothesis significance testing, cognitive-behavioral therapy's effect on depressive symptoms of bipolar disorder is not fully understood in the absence of effect size statistics. The present study discusses the disadvantages associated with null hypothesis significance testing and seeks to overcome these shortcomings via conducting a meta-analysis which examines cognitive-behavioral therapy for depressive symptoms in persons with bipolar disorder. A systematic literature search was conducted and included articles were subject to meta-analytic procedures.