Efficacy of Behavioral Experiments in Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While the efficacy of cognitive therapy (CT) has been well established for social anxiety disorder (SAD) in several randomized controlled trials, there are still large differences between trials with respect to effect sizes. The present study investigates the question of whether enhanced training and the use of behavioral experiments (BEs) increases the efficacy of traditional CT, based on verbal methods of cognitive restructuring.

Methods/design

A mixed within/between conditions design will be applied, with therapists and patients being randomly allocated to one of two conditions: (1) training of CT plus BEs, (2) training of CT "as usual". Sixty patients with the primary diagnosis of SAD will be recruited and treated in the outpatient clinic of the Department of

SUBMITTER: Clement C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6921437 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature