Abstract
The study investigates how to improve the results reported by the reviews on the effects of clinical inter- ventions in adults with Generalized Social Phobia. The sample was composed of 91 participants (median age = 19.90 years, SD = 1.05) randomly assigned to three experimental conditions. The evaluations were conducted before and after treatment in all three groups and at 6-, 12-, and 24-month follow-up for the treatment groups. The results show (a) the effectiveness of the cognitive-behavioral strategy of detection and intervention, in a community context, versus clinical intervention both for the short and medium term; and (b) a significant improvement over the percentages of dropouts and of rates of complete recovery from the disorder. These findings allow us to conclude that the cognitive-behavioral strategy of detection and intervention, in a community context is shown to be a complementary intervention to the conventional and with high efficiency ratios.
Translated title of the contribution | Community versus clinical cognitive-behavioral intervention in young-adult Spanish population with generalized social phobia |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 23-30 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Terapia Psicologica |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2016 |
Keywords
- Clinical intervention
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Detection and community intervention
- Generalized social phobia
- Young-adult Spanish population