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NCT Number: NCT01986517

Feedback and Psychotherapeutic Competencies

The purpose of the current study is to examine the influence of feedback on psychotherapeutic competency. The present randomized controlled study compares a feedback condition with a non-feedback condition. Therapists in the feedback condition receive feedback after every fourth session. The feedback is given by two trained and independent raters. The raters are licenced and experienced psychotherapists. Therapists in the non-feedback condition receive no feedback during the psychotherapy.

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Key information

Conditions

Mental Disorders

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of Goethe University

Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, 60486, Germany

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Therapists

Inclusion criteria

  • Having successfully completed the interim audit
  • Having started to treat ambulant patients
  • Remaining at least 6 month in the ambulance

Exclusion criteria

-

Patients

Inclusion criteria

  • Meeting ICD 10 criteria for a mental disorder
  • Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Currently in psychotherapy
  • Suicidal tendency
  • Clinical diagnosis of alcohol or drug addiction, acute schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder
  • Clinical diagnosis of personality disorder cluster A (odd disorders) and B (dramatic, emotional or erratic)

Treatment and study plan

No Feedback

Behavioral

Therapists will receive no feedback.

Feedback after every fourth session

Behavioral

Primary outcomes

  1. Cognitive Therapy Scale (CTS)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    external-assessment measure that assesses psychotherapeutic competency during a cognitive therapy session. CTS will be used by two trained raters licensed as psychological psychotherapists.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Helping Alliance Questionaire (HAQ)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess therapeutic alliance from the therapists perspective (therapist version; HAQ-T) and the patients perspective (HAQ-P)

  2. Berner Stundenbögen Version 2000

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess therapeutic relationship from the therapists perspective (therapist version, TSTB) and the patients perspective (patient version; PSTB)

  3. Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    external measure to assess the global functioning of the patient

  4. Supervisory Questionaire (SQ)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess the therapists self-opening

  5. Supervisee Levels Questionaire (SLQ-R)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess the therapists self-awareness

  6. Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory (COSE)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess self efficacy of the therapist

  7. Fear of negative evaluation scale (Skala Angst vor negativer Bewertung; SANB)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess fear of evaluation

  8. Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess aspects of general psychopathology

  9. Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI II)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess depressive symptoms

  10. Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess anxiety symptoms

  11. Client Satisfaction Questionaire (CSQ8)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess satisfaction with therapy

  12. Health-related quality of life (SF-12)

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of psychotherapy, an expected average of 20 weeks

    self-report measure to assess health-related quality of life

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Goethe University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Impact of Feedback on the Devolpment of Psychotherapeutic Competencies: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Nov 18, 2013
Registry last updated
Mar 20, 2015

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