Theoretically guided improvement in the treatment of social phobia: A randomised controlled trial.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/192107

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Social phobia is a serious mental disorder that affects up to 13% of the population across their lifetime and causes marked life interference and costs to the community. Treatments for social phobia have been improving over the past decades and currently, there is good outcome with standard treatment packages. However, several authors have pointed out that treatment outcomes, while good, are far from perfect. We have recently developed a model of social anxiety that points out how people with social phobia may be different to the average. Based on this model, we can make several predictions for potential improvements to current treatment packages. The current grant seeks to test these improvements. The proposal is to compare people with social phobia who receive a standard treatment package with those who receive this packaged plus the newly predicted components. It is predicted that the addition of these extra components will results in considerably greater improvements in both the short and long terms.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 01-01-2004

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $302,830.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Financial economics

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Other Keywords

anxiety | anxiety disorders | individual psychotherapy | mental disorders | mental health | phobias | psychopathology | therapy

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