NCT03354975

Experiential Training for Community Therapists

Completed NA Last updated 3 January 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Experiential Training in Anxiety in 28 participants. Completed in 1 November 2018.

Timeline

23 March 2018

Primary endpoint
24 July 2018

1 November 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Temple University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	28
Start date	23 March 2018
Primary completion	24 July 2018
Estimated completion	1 November 2018
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Experiential Training
• Training-As-Usual

Conditions studied

• Anxiety — all drugs for Anxiety →

Sponsor

Temple University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Anxiety. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of employing an experiential training approach that targets community mental health therapists' attitudes toward and use of exposure therapy. In addition to assessing attitudes and use of exposure therapy, the study will evaluate the feasibility of recruitment, randomization, retention, and assessment processes, as well as the acceptability of the experiential training relative to training-as-usual. To assess these outcomes, community therapists will be randomized to experiential training or training-as-usual. A subset of therapists from each arm will also complete qualitative interviews to further assess acceptability of the training approaches. The training-as-usual condition will include a traditional one-day workshop that focuses on principles of exposure and incorporates active learning strategies. The experiential training will include a one-day workshop that teaches principles of exposure and has therapists themselves undergo a one-session phobia treatment for spiders. Therapists in both training conditions will be asked to attend weekly consultation phone calls for a three-month period following the trainings.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Therapist perceptions of experiential training for exposure therapy.
   Frank HE, Rifkin LS, Sheehan K, Becker-Haimes EM, et al · · 2023 · cited 2× · PMID 36805734 · DOI 10.1017/s1352465822000728