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McCarty, Ryan J., Cooke, Danielle L., Lazaroe, Lacie M., Guzick, Andrew G., Guastello, Andrea D., Budd, Sierra M., Downing, Seth T., Ordway, Ashley R., Mathews, Carol A., McNamara, Joseph P. H. |
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapist; 2022, Vol. 15, p1-15, 15p |
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Although exposure therapy (ET) is an effective treatment for anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder, many clinicians report not utilizing it. The present study targeted common utilization barriers by evaluating an intensive ET training experience in a relatively inexperienced sample of pre-professionals. Thirty-two individuals at the undergraduate or college graduate level without formal clinical experience participated as camp counsellors in a 5day exposure-based therapeutic summer camp for youth with anxiety disorders and/or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Participants were trained in ET through a progressive cascading model and answered questionnaires before and after camp. Repeated measure MANOVA revealed significantly increased feelings of self-efficacy conducting exposures, and significantly decreased feelings of disgust sensitivity and contamination-related disgust from pre-camp to post-camp. A subset of individuals providing data 1 month after the camp maintained a significant gain in ET self-efficacy. Regression analyses revealed that contamination-related disgust, but not disgust sensitivity, significantly predicted post-camp ET self-efficacy. These findings suggest that individuals early into their post-secondary education can learn ET, and the progressive cascading model holds promise in its utility across experience levels and warrants further investigation. Disgust may also play a role in feelings of competency conducting ET. Implications on dissemination and implementation efforts are also discussed. Key learning aims: (1) How can training of CBT techniques such as exposure occur prior to graduate education? (2) Can self-efficacy in conducting exposures meaningfully increase in an experiential training of pre-professionals? (3) How does an individual's tolerance of disgust impact feelings of competence conducting exposures? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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