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ToolsLeigh, Eleanor, Clark, David and Chiu, Kenny (2025) Examining two of the ingredients of Cognitive Therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder: Back-translation from a treatment trial. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 88. ISSN 0005-7916
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Abstract
Background: Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder (CT-SAD) based on the Clark & Wells model is a complex intervention comprised of a series of therapeutic elements. Two of the key ingredients are the self-focused attention and safety behaviour experiment and video feedback. The present study examined the effects of these two therapeutic procedures in adolescents with SAD, as well as common themes of the young people's social fears and negative self-images. Method: 35 participants with a diagnosis of SAD completed internet-delivered CT-SAD as part of a randomised controlled trial. We conducted a series of paired samples t-tests to evaluate the effects of the self-focused attention and safety behaviour experiment and video feedback. We applied Latent Dirichlet Allocation to identify latent topics based on participants' description of their social fears and negative self-images that were elicited during the course of these therapy procedures. Results: Participants reported lower anxiety and more positive self-appraisals when focusing externally and dropping safety behaviours, compared to when focusing internally and using safety behaviours (ps < 0.0025). After they watched the videos compared to before, they reported more positive appraisals of their appearance and performance (ps < 0.0025). The differences in these outcomes were significantly larger when they focused internally and used safety behaviours, compared to focusing externally and dropping safety behaviours (ps < 0.0025). Topic modelling identified six social fear topics and five negative self-image topics. Conclusions: Self-focused attention, safety behaviours, and negative self-imagery are modifiable with the ‘self-focused attention and safety behaviour experiment’ and ‘video feedback’ as part of internet delivered CT-SAD.
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| Additional Information: | Data availability statement: Data will be made available on request. Funding information: For this work, E.L. was funded by a Wellcome Trust clinical research training fellowship (102176/Z/13/Z) and DMC was funded by the Wellcome Trust (WT069777). The study was supported by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre. E.L. is now supported by a Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Fellowship (MR/W02389X/1). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | adolescent,cbt,cognitive therapy,imagery,safety behaviours,self-focused attention,social anxiety,experimental and cognitive psychology,psychiatry and mental health,clinical psychology,arts and humanities (miscellaneous) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3205 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2025 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2025 13:12 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98509 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jbtep.2025.102020 |
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