Mindfulness and Acceptance Applied in Colleges Through Web-Based Guided Self-Help
Completed · Phase 1
Conditions studied: College Student Mental Health
In brief
College counseling centers (CCCs) are being faced with increasing demands for services to meet the treatment needs of their students, in the context of increasingly severe cases and declining resources. Innovative, cost effective solutions are needed. The proposed project seeks to meet these needs by testing a web-based guided self-help version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based transdiagnostic therapy found to effectively treat a range of psychological problems. An ACT program would provide a means of implementing effective treatment for the range of problems in the CCC setting, while the guided self-help format would reduce counselors' workload, improving cost-effectiveness and reducing waiting lists. This would both treat students and train counselors in how to implement the ACT intervention. Three self-help lessons have been developed, as well as a counselor portal to review students' use of the program and to receive training on implementing ACT guided self-help. The study is a pre-post, open(i.e., non-randomized) feasibility trial with 20 counselors and 60 clients from multiple CCCs throughout the country.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01808404
- Run by
- Contextual Change LLC
- People needed
- 113
- Starts
- 2013-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2014-01-29
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
Where it is running
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Development and Counseling Center — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
- Michigan State University Counseling Center — East Lansing, Michigan, United States
- University of North Carolina Counseling and Psychological Services — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
- Rhode Island School of DesignOffice of Student Development and Counseling Services — Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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