NCT02291068

Psychological Flexibility and Effectiveness of Psychotherapy

Psychological Flexibility and Effectiveness of Psychotherapy Treatment in Patients With Adjustment Disorder

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Objectives of the current research is to evaluate whether psychological flexibility influences psychotherapy outcomes in patients with adjustment disorder and depression. If indeed this is the case, we would be able to identify risk factors for low adjustment- such as low psychological flexibility, and develop psychotherapy that would try to enhance this ability.

Detailed description

Subjects will be recruited from the Psychiatric daycare center at the Tel-Aviv Souraski Medical Center, serving the broader Tel-Aviv municipal area. Referrals to the department will be screened for eligibility to participate in the study according to the study's inclusion and exclusion criteria. Inclusion criteria would be adjustment disorder as the referral cause, age ranging from 20 to 65 years old and Hebrew speaking. Patients with major depression, a psychotic disorder, alcohol or drug dependence will be excluded. All participants will sign a written informed consent. The diagnosis of adjustment disorder will be confirmed by an open clinical interview followed by a Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV SCID-IV (Shalev et al. 1994; First et al. 1995). Before starting the psychotherapy treatment, the patients will fill a psychological flexibility questionnaire (PFQ) and well-being questionnaire (MHI), in order to evaluate their psychological flexibility and well-being baseline. At the end of the psychotherapy treatment, they will fill the questionnaires again. Also, their therapists will evaluate the patients' levels of adjustment disorder or depression before and after the therapy.

Conditions

• Adjustment Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	psychotherapy treatment	3 months long (12 sessions) dynamic psychotherapy. The dynamic psychotherapeutic technique which will be applied in the current research is derived from Malan's focused, brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (Malan 1976) and from the literature specifying psychodynamic psychotherapies distinctive techniques (Shedler 2010). The principle of this treatment is a time limited intervention in which the primary objective is to enhance the patient's insights regarding repetitive conflicts. As psychodynamic psychotherapy is suitable for all kinds of adjustment disorders, no special adjustment in the course of therapy was made for the different subtypes (Cabaniss et al. 2011).

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2015-11-01
• Completion: 2015-11-01
• First posted: 2014-11-14
• Last updated: 2014-11-14