NCT02304796

Unified Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) vs. Combined CBT and Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) for Anxiety Disorders

Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Effectiveness of Two Group Psychotherapies for Anxiety Disorders: Unified Cognitive-behavioral Therapy vs. Combined Cognitive Behavioral and Dance/Movement Therapy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Shalvata Mental Health Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The current pilot study will examine and compare the effectiveness of two group psychotherapies for mixed anxiety disorders: 1. unified cognitive-behavioral protocol, adapted to a group format. 2. combined cognitive-behavioral and dance/movement therapy. In addition, change in proposed mechanism in each therapy will be examined, along with their association with change in outcome measures during therapy.

Detailed description

The current pilot study will examine and compare the effectiveness of two group psychotherapies for mixed anxiety disorders: 1. unified cognitive-behavioral protocol, adapted to a group format. 2. combined cognitive-behavioral and dance/movement therapy. 24 patients will be randomized to 1 of the two treatment arms and treated with 20 weekly 1.5-2 hours therapy sessions. Independent evaluator and self-reports measures will be collected at intake, pre-treatment, session by session, post-treatment and and follow-up. Hypotheses: 1. Both groups will show effectiveness, as revealed by reduction in anxiety severity and increase in valued living. 2. Changes in process measures (proposed mechanism of change - emotion regulation, working alliance, fear of bodily sensations, bodily/movement awareness) will be predictive of change in outcome measures (anxiety severity and valued living). 3. Changes in bodily/movement awareness will be more predictive of change in outcome measures in the CBT-DMT group than in the unified protocol group.

Conditions

• Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Unified Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy	20 weekly sessions (1.5-2 hours each), based on the principles of the Unified Protocol for Trans-diagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (Barlow et al., 2011) adapted for a group format. The treatment will include 8 different modules of varying length: motivation enhancement, understanding emotions, identifying and monitoring emotions, emotional awareness training, cognitive appraisal and reappraisal, emotional avoidance, emotion driven behaviors, awareness and tolerance of bodily sensations, relapse prevention.
BEHAVIORAL	Combined Cognitive-Behavioral and Dance/Movement Therapy	20 weekly sessions (1.5-2 hours each), based on combined cognitive-behavioral techniques (psychoeducation, awareness and tolerance of emotions, interoceptive exposures, in-vivo exposures, cognitive flexibility) and dance/movement techniques.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2016-09-01
• First posted: 2014-12-02
• Last updated: 2016-04-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel