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Mindfulness and Acceptance Applied in Colleges Through Web-Based Guided Self-Help

NCT01808404 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 113

Last updated 2014-01-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

College counseling centers (CCCs) are being faced with increasing demands for services to meet the treatment needs of their students, in the context of increasingly severe cases and declining resources. Innovative, cost effective solutions are needed.

The proposed project seeks to meet these needs by testing a web-based guided self-help version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based transdiagnostic therapy found to effectively treat a range of psychological problems. An ACT program would provide a means of implementing effective treatment for the range of problems in the CCC setting, while the guided self-help format would reduce counselors' workload, improving cost-effectiveness and reducing waiting lists. This would both treat students and train counselors in how to implement the ACT intervention. Three self-help lessons have been developed, as well as a counselor portal to review students' use of the program and to receive training on implementing ACT guided self-help.

The study is a pre-post, open(i.e., non-randomized) feasibility trial with 20 counselors and 60 clients from multiple CCCs throughout the country.

Conditions

  • College Student Mental Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Web-Based Guided Self-Help

The intervention will involve counselors using the web-based guided self-help program with their student clients. Counselors will complete a web-based training followed by a period of time in which they will monitor and guide students in completing the program. Students will access a series of three web-based "lessons" in which they will receive an intervention based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focused on personal values, acceptance of difficult emotions, and mindfulness.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Contextual Change LLC

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Michael E. Levin, M.A. · Contextual Change LLC

  • Jacqueline Pistorello, Ph.D. · Contextual Change LLC

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-02-28
Primary Completion
2013-09-30
Completion
2013-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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