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A randomized pilot study of mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy and group cognitive‐behavioral therapy for young adults with social phobia
Author(s) -
PIET JACOB,
HOUGAARD ESBEN,
HECKSHER MORTEN S.,
ROSENBERG NICOLE K.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00801.x
Subject(s) - mindfulness , mindfulness based cognitive therapy , psychology , cognitive therapy , randomized controlled trial , cognition , crossover study , clinical psychology , cognitive behavioral therapy , psychotherapist , group psychotherapy , psychiatry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , placebo
Piet, J., Hougaard, E., Hecksher, M. S., & Rosenberg, N. K. (2010). A randomized pilot study of mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy and group cognitive‐behavioral therapy for young adults with social phobia. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology , 51 , 403–410. Twenty‐six young participants, 18–25 years, with social phobia (SP) were randomly assigned to eight 2‐hour sessions of group mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and twelve 2‐hour sessions of group cognitive‐behavioral therapy (CBT) in a crossover design with participants receiving treatments in reversed order. Outcome was assessed after treatments, and at 6‐ and 12‐month follow‐ups. MBCT achieved moderate‐high pre‐post effect sizes ( d = 0.78 on a composite SP measure), not significantly different from, although numerical lower than those of CBT ( d = 1.15). Participants in both groups further improved in the periods following their first and second treatment until 6‐months follow‐up (pre‐follow‐up d s = 1.42 and 1.62). Thus, MBCT might be a useful, low cost treatment for SP, although, probably, less efficacious than CBT.