BSOCIAL Trial Results Published
01 October 2020
For the past several years, CCI have been part of a randomised control trial comparing imagery-enhanced and verbally-based group cognitive behaviour therapy for social anxiety disorder (know as the BSOCIAL trial). We're very excited to announce that this trial was recently completed and the results have now been published in the journal This kind of project epitomises the integration of research and clinical practice that we are so passionate about here at CCI, and we're hopeful that these results will not only help to guide our own treatment of social anxiety disorder, but also to support other clinicians around the world in providing evidence-based treatment for people experiencing social anxiety. People with social anxiety often report experiencing mental images that relate to past (and anticipated future) social experiences, which can be associated with high levels of anxiety. Despite this, past treatments have paid limited attention to these mental images. To overcome this limitation, clinicians at the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) developed a 12-week group-based “imagery-enhanced” program specifically tailored for social anxiety. Preliminary research indicated that this new approach was benef...