Behavioral and Affective Skills in Coping (BASIC) Open Trial

NCT ID: NCT01463241

Last Updated: 2015-04-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 24 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2011-11-30
• Study Completion Date: 2013-10-31

Brief Summary

The overall objective of the project is to develop and assess the feasibility of a brief, practice-friendly approach to psychotherapy for children, entitled Behavioral and Affective Skills in Coping (BASIC) and designed for use as a first step toward evidence-based practice by practitioners in clinical service settings.

Detailed Description

The investigators seek to develop a treatment protocol that integrates five core intervention principles that are common to evidence-based treatments for youth depression, anxiety, and disruptive behavior problems. The protocol will be designed for implementation in everyday community practice settings by practitioners. Because many empirically supported treatments for youth disorders address only one area of impairment, they may not be an ideal fit to community clinics, where (a) most practitioners treat an array of disorders rather than specializing in just one, (b) most referred youths present with multiple disorders, and (c) priority problems and treatment needs may shift for many youths during an episode of care. Moreover, because many evidence-based treatments have been developed in research settings, they may not be designed in ways that are ideal for front-line therapists in community settings. The investigators hope to reduce the difficulty of transporting treatments into community practice by incorporating the perspectives of community practitioners in the development and design of the protocol. By incorporating the feedback of expert treatment developers, the investigators hope to ensure that BASIC is not only appealing to users but also consistent with what has been learned through treatment research over the years. Finally, the trial will provide preliminary evidence on whether this brief "first course" in evidence-based treatment is beneficial for youths with depression, anxiety, and disruptive behavior problems-three clusters that account for a large percentage of youth referrals.

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders; Depressive Disorders; Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

BASIC treatment

As an open trial, all participants in this study will receive the BASIC treatment.

Group Type: OTHER

Behavioral and Affective Skills in Coping (BASIC)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The investigator's seek to develop a treatment protocol that integrates five core intervention principles that are common to evidence-based treatments for youth depression, anxiety, and disruptive behavior problems. The protocol will be designed for implementation in everyday community practice settings by practitioners. The BASIC protocol will include (a) a therapist manual guiding the use of five BASIC skills \[Belief Repair, Action, Solving Problems, Incentives, and Calming\]; (b) child and parent materials to facilitate learning skills, practicing them in-session, and using them outside sessions; and (c) a decision tree to guide judgments about which skills to use and when to switch skills or treatment focus.

Interventions

Behavioral and Affective Skills in Coping (BASIC)

The investigator's seek to develop a treatment protocol that integrates five core intervention principles that are common to evidence-based treatments for youth depression, anxiety, and disruptive behavior problems. The protocol will be designed for implementation in everyday community practice settings by practitioners. The BASIC protocol will include (a) a therapist manual guiding the use of five BASIC skills \[Belief Repair, Action, Solving Problems, Incentives, and Calming\]; (b) child and parent materials to facilitate learning skills, practicing them in-session, and using them outside sessions; and (c) a decision tree to guide judgments about which skills to use and when to switch skills or treatment focus.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 8-15 year-old youth
• The youth will meet diagnostic criteria for one or more target disorders in the broad areas of anxiety (including Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Specific Phobia, Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Adjustment Disorder with Anxiety), depression (including Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder, Minor Depression, Depressive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood), and conduct (Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Disruptive Behavior Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Adjustment Disorder with Disturbance of Conduct).

Exclusion Criteria

• Youth with primary ADHD
• Youth with developmental disorders
• Youth with symptoms of a thought disorder including delusions and hallucinations

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Judge Baker Children's Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

John R. Weisz, PhD, ABPP

Professor of Psychology

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

John R Weisz, Ph.D., ABPP

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Locations

Judge Baker Children's Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

R34MH085963-03

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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