Brief Shame Intervention Study

Miami University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Anxiety Disorder; Shame

Treatments: Behavioral: Shame Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03463356

01474r

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current project will develop and test a brief 2-session shame intervention in individuals diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (SAD). Using a non-concurrent multiple baseline design, the investigators will determine whether the brief shame intervention leads to reductions in trait self-reported shame and state shame in response to an in vivo stressor task. The investigators will also evaluate the effect of changes in shame on trait SAD symptoms.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-≥ 18 years old

• fluent in English, in terms of verbal and written competence
• meet diagnostic criteria for social anxiety disorder (as assessed by the Diagnostic Interview for Anxiety, Mood, and OCD and Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Tolin et al., 2016)
• have elevated levels of shame (i.e., score 1 SD above the Test of Self-Conscious Affect-3 [TOSCA-3] means reported by an unselected undergraduate sample [M = 33.62, SD = 8.64])
• endorse a desire to decrease their levels of shame and/or social anxiety.

Exclusion criteria

• currently receiving cognitive-behavioral therapy specifically for social anxiety or shame
• have begun taking or had a change in dosage of psychotropic medication in the past six weeks
• do not achieve baseline stability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

14 participants in 1 patient group

Shame Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will complete a two shame intervention sessions approximately one week apart.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Shame Intervention