Residential cognitive therapy versus residential interpersonal therapy for social phobia: A randomized clinical trial

Abstract

Eighty patients meeting DSM-IV criteria for social phobia were randomly assigned to 10 weeks of residential cognitive therapy (RCT) or residential interpersonal therapy (RIPT). Subjects were assessed at pretreatment, midtreatment, posttreatment, and 1 year after end of treatment. The patients reported chronic, highly comorbid social phobia. Most had tried other treatments without success. Existing individual treatment protocols for cognitive therapy and interpersonal therapy were extensively modified for an integrated group, individual, and residential format. The RCT and RIPT patients improved significantly on the primary outcome measures from pre- to posttreatment. No significant differences were observed between treatments. Patients also completed three weekly secondary outcome measures; on one, social role security, RCT was superior to RIPT. The entire sample reported continued improvement from posttreatment to 1-year follow-up, indicating that improvements were robust. RCT in the present trial was associated with less improvement compared to individual CT in other recent trials.

Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Interpersonal Problems and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Among University Students

“…These findings were in line with the results reported by Mckay et al (2012) and Lev (2011) (3,34). Also, the results of previous research using other treatment methods are in congruence with the present findings (35,36). The present study showed that ACT could reduce interpersonal problems.…”

Cognitive Therapy vs Interpersonal Psychotherapy in Social Anxiety Disorder

“…Two trials 17,21 of bulimia nervosa demonstrated the superior effectiveness of CBT over IPT at the posttreatment assessment but not at the 1-year follow-up. A Norwegian group 22 compared predominantly group-based versions of IPT and CT in patients with SAD in a residential setting and found limited, not significantly different, improvements of symptoms in both approaches. However, both treatments differed substantially from the individual IPT and CT programs that have received the strongest support in randomized controlled trials.…”

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Mental Health Problems: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

“…Since IPT appeared to be effective in the treatment of depression, researchers and clinicians started to use it for other mental health problems, including eating disorders (15)(16)(17), substance use disorders (18), anxiety disorders (19,20), and several others (21)(22)(23).…”