NCT02646865

Self-Compassion Enhanced CBT vs. Standard CBT for Social Anxiety (SCE-CBT)

A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Efficacy of Self-Compassion Enhanced CBT vs. Standard CBT for Social Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Babes-Bolyai University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the addition of a self-compassion training in the treatment of social anxiety disorder. Half of the participants will receive a self-compassion enhanced group cognitive-behavioral therapy, while the other half will receive standard group cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Detailed description

There is growing evidence showing that shame is associated with social anxiety. Also, empirical data shows that individuals with social anxiety have higher levels of shame compared with healthy individuals and that shame might play an important role in the maintenance of social anxiety symptoms. Although cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety seems to reduce the level of shame-proneness, the magnitude of this reduction is a small one. The purpose of this study is to test whether adding a self-compassion component (which seems to be effective in reducing shame feelings) to a cognitive-behavioral protocol would increase the efficacy of the treatment in reducing both shame-proneness and social anxiety symptoms compared with a standard cognitive-behavioral intervention.

Conditions

• Social Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-Compassion Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy	12 group sessions of CBT for social anxiety based on Heimberg \& Becker's (2002) protocol with additional self-compassion exercises integrated into the treatment
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy	12 group sessions of CBT for social anxiety based on Heimberg \& Becker's (2002) protocol

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-01
• Completion: 2018-01-01
• First posted: 2016-01-06
• Last updated: 2018-07-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Romania