NCT01571089

Anxiety Treatment Inspired by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Anxiety Treatment Inspired by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - An Alternative for Patients Who Previously Received Exposure-based Treatment for Anxiety Without Sustained Improvements.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: Örebro County Council · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main interest in this study is to investigate if it is possible to use strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to increase effectiveness of ordinary Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for patients with anxiety disorders. For the patients included in this study, previous exposure-based treatment should have been unsuccessful (drop-out, relapse or lack of positive results after treatment).

Conditions

• Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	DBT-inspired anxiety treatment	In short, the treatment is 24 sessions consisting of skills-training strategies and exposure strategies. The idea is that the patient during the treatment will learn and practice the skills needed to handle exposures.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2014-10-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2012-04-04
• Last updated: 2015-05-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden