NCT04511754

Experiential Training in Eliciting Disclosure & Emotions for Mental Health Trainees

Completed NA Last updated 4 August 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Experiential Psychotherapy Skill Training in Trauma in 102 participants. Completed in 22 June 2021.

Timeline

9 December 2020

Primary endpoint
22 June 2021

22 June 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Mark A. Lumley
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	102
Start date	9 December 2020
Primary completion	22 June 2021
Estimated completion	22 June 2021
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Experiential Psychotherapy Skill Training
• Standard Psychotherapy Skill Training

Conditions studied

• Trauma — all drugs for Trauma →
• Emotions — all drugs for Emotions →
• Disclosure — all drugs for Disclosure →

Sponsor

Mark A. Lumley

Who can join

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

Sponsor's own description

Many people seek psychotherapy to alleviate symptoms related to trauma and stressful conflicts, and many psychotherapy approaches aim to help people process trauma and conflicts through eliciting client disclosure of these experiences and activating related emotions. However, many therapists avoid implementing such approaches because they are emotionally challenging for both the client and the therapist, and because therapists lack direct training in specific skills related to eliciting client disclosure and working with emotions. This suggests that providing therapists with a training experience that is experiential, includes direct supervision and feedback, and addresses therapists' reservations and anxieties may be an important approach to increase therapist skills in disclosure elicitation and emotional activation.

This is a randomized trial that will test two methods of training (experiential vs. standard) of master's level psychotherapy students in specific therapeutic skills aimed at increasing trainees' emotional awareness and self-regulation and reducing trainee anxiety and avoidance of eliciting disclosure and working with emotions in psychotherapy. In the standard training condition, the trainee will receive a lecture about the skills including rationale and research background, examples, and opportunities to ask questions. In the experiential training condition, the trainees will receive information about the skills with examples and will have opportunity to practice using short video clips of actors portraying clients. The trainees will be asked to respond to the short clips using the skills they learned, and a trainer will process the trainees' reactions after they respond to each practice video clip and will provide feedback to the trainees about their performance on the practice. Findings from this study will provide information about the feasibility of training in specific disclosure elicitation and emotional activation therapy skills, and will provide information about whether or not live supervision will lead to greater improvement in the targeted skills compared to entirely standard training.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.