Does the form or the amount of exposure make a difference in the cognitive-behavioral therapy
Exposure is considered to be an essential ingredient of cognitive-behavioral therapy treatment of social phobia and of most anxiety disorders. To assess the impact of the amount of exposure on outcome, 30 social phobic patients were randomly allocated to 1 of 2 group treatments of 8 weekly sessions: Self-Focused Exposure Therapy which is based essentially on prolonged exposure to public speaking combined with positive feedback or a more standard cognitive and behavioral method encompassing psychoeducation, cognitive work, working through exposure hierarchies of feared situations for exposure within and outside the group. The results show that the 2 methods led to significant and equivalent symptomatic improvements which were maintained at 1-year follow-up. There was a more rapid and initially more pronounced decrease in negative cognitions with the Self-Focused Exposure Therapy, which included no formal cognitive work, than with the more standard approach in which approximately a third of the content was cognitive. In contrast, decrease in social avoidance was more persistent with standard cognitive-behavior therapy which involved less exposure. The results indicate that positive cognitive change can be achieved more rapidly with non cognitive methods while avoidance decreases more reliably with a standard approach rather than an approach with an exclusive focus on exposure.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2009 Jul;197(7):507-13. Borgeat F, Stankovic M, Khazaal Y, Rouget BW, Baumann MC, Riquier F, O'Connor K, Jermann F, Zullino D, Bondolfi G. Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. francois.borgeat@umontreal.ca
Posted: 12/17/2009
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