PBT For Anxiety Problems
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Summary
A case series of PBA intervention for anxiety problems.
Description
Participants will self-refer to this study by emailing a research assistant (Mr. Whittington). They will then attend a screening session where they complete an informed consent form and are assessed for inclusion/exclusion criteria. During the screening the research assistant will conduct a clinical interview and collaboratively identify hypothetical processes (e.g. avoidance) that might be contributing to the participants anxiety symptoms. Together, they will identify 8-items from the process-based assessment tool (see survey) that might be relevant to the participants anxiety. Participants…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Score on GAD-7 \>10 at baseline * Access to mobile device Exclusion Criteria: * Current psychotherapy treatment * Current/past severe psychopathology (e.g., history of psychosis, suicide attempt or self-injury within the past 12 months, narcotics use within the past 3 months)
Interventions
- BehavioralProcess-Based Approach
Process-Based Approaches (PBA) were developed to improve psychotherapy outcomes. Early writings referred to PBA as process-based therapy or process-based cognitive behavioral therapy. The current nomenclature was adopted to distinguish PBA as a unifying approach that incrementally builds on clinical psychological science rather than a manualized treatment protocol. PBA provides a framework for flexibly applying evidence-based techniques from multiple therapeutic traditions to target hypothesized psychological processes that give rise to individual patient presentations. Each patient is conceptualized independently, and intervention structure may vary substantially based on need, while retaining empirically supported tools. This contrasts with disorder-specific treatment manuals, which assume homogeneity despite substantial variability in underlying processes (e.g., anxiety).
Location
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Dr. Borgogna's labBirmingham, Alabama