NCT01320800

CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder Delivered by School Counselors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 126 (actual)
• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This 5-year study addresses the unmet needs of adolescents with social phobia through the testing of a 12-week cognitive-behavioral, school-based group intervention delivered by trained school counselors compared to a nonspecific school counseling program. A secondary goal is to provide further examination of the efficacy of the CBT program delivered by school counselors as compared to the same program delivered by psychologists.

Detailed description

The investigators have tested SASS, a school-based group CBT intervention for social phobia, and found it to be effective when delivered by psychologists (Masia Warner et al., 2005; Masia Warner et al., 2007). The proposed dissemination study extends this work through a controlled trial of SASS delivered by school counselors. The investigators will randomize 126 adolescents with social anxiety disorder, ages 14 through 17, to one of 3 treatments: 1) SASS delivered by school counselors (SC-SASS), 2) SASS delivered by psychologists (Expert-SASS), or 3) a manualized adolescent group counseling program specifically designed for school counselors, called Skills for Living (SFL). A comprehensive evaluation will include diagnosis, illness severity, scale ratings of social anxiety and depression, clinical global improvement, overall functioning, and school-relevant indices of function. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline, mid-point (after 6 weeks of intervention), post-treatment, and 6 months following intervention completion.

Conditions

• Social Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Skills for Academic and Social Success	12-week cognitive-behavioral, school-based group intervention
BEHAVIORAL	Skills for Life	SFL is the Skills for Life Protocol delivered by school counselors.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-10-01
• Primary completion: 2015-02-01
• Completion: 2015-02-01
• First posted: 2011-03-22
• Last updated: 2016-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States