RCT of an Acceptance-based Behavior Therapy for GAD

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

81

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 31, 2007

Primary Completion Date

February 28, 2013

Study Completion Date

February 28, 2013

Conditions
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Acceptance based behavioral therapy

16 individual psychotherapy sessions focused on psychoeducation about anxiety, anxious responding, the function of emotions, mindfulness, and problems with efforts to constrict one's emotional experience; training in mindfulness skills; practice applying mindfulness skills in daily life, including acceptance of, rather than efforts to control, internal experience; and identification of values in areas of life and practice engaging in chosen actions.

BEHAVIORAL

Applied relaxation

16 sessions of individual psychotherapy focused on psychoeducation about anxiety and anxious responding; training in multiple forms of relaxation; early cue detection; and practice applying relaxation in daily life.

Trial Locations (1)

02215

Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, Boston

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

lead

University of Massachusetts, Boston

OTHER

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