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A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Comparing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Self-help Books for Social Anxiety
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness and The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Social Anxiety. Completed, enrolled 109 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The goal of this study is to compare the efficacy and mechanisms of change of two self-help books for social anxiety in college students in a randomized controlled trial. One book is based on traditional cognitive behavioral therapy and one is based on acceptance and commitment therapy. This study will test the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: The CBT and ACT book conditions will both experience decreased social anxiety and distress. Life satisfaction and values progress will increase in both conditions. Hypothesis 2: The CBT condition will result in greater use of reappraisal, the ACT condition will not. Hypothesis 3: The ACT condition will result in greater use of defusion and decreased psychological inflexibility; the CBT condition will not. Hypothesis 4: Changes in experiential avoidance and defusion will predict changes in social anxiety and values progress in the ACT condition. Hypothesis 5: Changes in reappraisal will predict changes in social anxiety in the CBT condition. Change in values progress will be predicted by change in social anxiety in the CBT condition. Hypothesis 6: The association between social anxiety/negative affect and values progress will decrease or disappear in the ACT condition (i.e., decoupling), and remain the same in the CBT condition.
Study Details
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Interventions
Participants assigned to this condition will be asked to read this self-help book over an 8-week period.
Participants assigned to this condition will be asked to read this self-help book over an 8-week period (with some chapters omitted).