NCT03354975

Experiential Training for Community Therapists

Dissemination of Exposure-Based Treatment for Anxiety: Experiential Training for Community Therapists

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: Temple University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of employing an experiential training approach that targets community mental health therapists' attitudes toward and use of exposure therapy. In addition to assessing attitudes and use of exposure therapy, the study will evaluate the feasibility of recruitment, randomization, retention, and assessment processes, as well as the acceptability of the experiential training relative to training-as-usual. To assess these outcomes, community therapists will be randomized to experiential training or training-as-usual. A subset of therapists from each arm will also complete qualitative interviews to further assess acceptability of the training approaches. The training-as-usual condition will include a traditional one-day workshop that focuses on principles of exposure and incorporates active learning strategies. The experiential training will include a one-day workshop that teaches principles of exposure and has therapists themselves undergo a one-session phobia treatment for spiders. Therapists in both training conditions will be asked to attend weekly consultation phone calls for a three-month period following the trainings.

Conditions

• Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experiential Training	Participants in the experiential training will be provided with information about using exposure therapy to treat patients with anxiety via lecture-style teaching. Then, they will themselves undergo a one-session phobia treatment for spiders.
BEHAVIORAL	Training-As-Usual	The training-as-usual condition will incorporate passive and active learning components. The first half of the training will include lecture-style teaching about using exposure therapy to treat patients with anxiety. The second half of training will incorporate active learning components (e.g., role plays) to reinforce concepts discussed in the first half of training.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-23
• Primary completion: 2018-07-24
• Completion: 2018-11-01
• First posted: 2017-11-28
• Last updated: 2019-01-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States