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Transdiagnostic Brain-Behavior Profiling to Enhance Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Response
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating CBT and ST for Major Depressive Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder. Completed, enrolled 203 participants across 1 site.
Signals
Detailed Summary
Many patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and generalized Social Anxiety Disorder (gSAD) are treated with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) but few have meaningful improvement. MDD and gSAD are diseases of brain dysfunction that manifest as impaired emotion regulation; CBT teaches emotion regulation strategies but how it works in the brain remains largely unknown. Individual differences in brain function related to emotion regulation may make some patients better suited for CBT and CBT may remedy the brain dysfunction that underlies these disorders. This project will compare CBT with a placebo psychotherapy (i.e., supportive therapy) in MDD and gSAD to test, validate, and refine brain-based markers and examine mechanisms of change to examine how CBT works and for whom.
Study Details
Timeline
Arms & Interventions
The clinical psychologist will use a manualized CBT approach tailored to MDD or gSAD. Over a 12-week period sessions will include core CBT strategies -- psychoeducation, cognitive intervention (e.g., cognitive restructuring), behavioral changes (i.e., fear exposure, behavioral activation strategies) and relapse prevention.
The clinical psychologist will use an ST approach that resembles client-centered therapy of Carl Rogers (1951) which has been used as a control psychotherapy. The manual is based on supportive psychotherapy principles. Over a 12-week period, sessions will emphasize reflective listening and elicitation of affect. In contrast to CBT, therapists allow patients to determine the focus of each session, pulling for emotion, validating emotions when possible, and offering empathetic comments. Therapists will refrain from delineating any CBT theoretical framework and avoided cognitive and behavioral techniques that might overlap with CBT.
Interventions
CBT works by changing people's attitudes and their behavior by focusing on the thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes that are held (a person's cognitive processes) and how these processes relate to the way a person behaves, as a way of dealing with emotional problems.
Treatment designed to improve, reinforce, or sustain a patient's physiological well-being or psychological self-esteem and self-reliance