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Testing FIRST in Youth Outpatient Psychotherapy
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating FIRST and Usual Care for Anxiety and 3 related conditions. Active but no longer recruiting, targeting 212 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
The study will compare the impact FIRST (a transdiagnostic treatment built upon five empirically supported principles of change) versus usual care outpatient psychotherapy on youths' mental health outcomes and a candidate mechanism of change: regulation of negative emotions.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
FIRST is built upon five empirically supported principles of change (ESPCs-i.e., feeling calm, increasing motivation, repairing thoughts, solving problems, trying the opposite). Each principle can be applied to treatment of problems spanning depression, anxiety (including OCD and PTS), and conduct problems-thus encompassing a majority of the youths seen in outpatient care. Its design addresses breadth of problem coverage, youth comorbidity, and flux in youth treatment needs during episodes of care. It is used in conjunction with performance feedback via a web-based tracking system that gives clinicians weekly data on youth treatment response. FIRST has treatment and training efficiency, and efficient clinician skill-building is supported by group consultation.
Treatment in the usual care (UC) condition will use the clinical procedures therapists consider appropriate and believe to be effective.