The dissemination of cost‐effective psychosocial programs for children in health care settings

Psychosocial programs for children must be both efficient and efficacious. Efficiency is dictated by cost, case of implementation, and likelihood of program compliance. Unfortunately, in attempting to promote efficient programs, inefficacious programs have been disseminated. Also, there are instances of failing to disseminate efficacious programs because they are not efficient. This paper presents a three-stage model as a guide for the dissemination of psychosocial programs. Further, specific suggestions are given as to how we may move from the level of efficacious treatments that are currently used on a limited scale to widespread dissemination.