Trial reportPsychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.)2012
Outcome expectancy as a predictor of treatment response in cognitive behavioral therapy for public speaking fears within social anxiety disorder.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness and User Experience of Virtual Reality for Social Anxiety Disorder: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2024Pooled it
- A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Virtual Reality and In Vivo Exposure Therapy as Psychological Interventions for Public Speaking Anxiety.Behavior modification · 2022Pooled it
- Treatment expectancy and credibility as predictors of concentrated exposure treatment outcomes in patients with difficult-to-treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Stanford Expectations of Treatment Scale (SETS) in the Context of a Smoking Cessation Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Trial
- BED-online: Acceptance and efficacy of an internet-based treatment for binge-eating disorder: A randomized clinical trial including waitlist conditions.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2021Trial
- Treatment expectations for cognitive-behavioral therapy and light therapy for seasonal affective disorder: Change across treatment and relation to outcome.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016Trial
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- Predictors of CBT outcome in older adults with GAD.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2014Trial
- Anxiety unplugged: Effectiveness of an unguided, transdiagnostic, web-based intervention for anxiety disorders-A randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2025Article
- Revisiting the SSRI vs. placebo debate in the treatment of social anxiety disorder: the role of expectancy effects, neural responsivity, and monoamine transporters.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Quality of cognitive-behavioural therapy in routine psychiatric care: therapist adherence and competence, and patient outcomes for depression and anxiety disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2024Observational
- Virtual Reality exposure therapy in the treatment of public speaking anxiety and social anxiety disorder.Neuroscience applied · 2024Review
- Perspectives on relapse prevention following intensive treatment of anorexia nervosa: A focus group study.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Perceived helpfulness of bipolar disorder treatment: Findings from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.Bipolar disorders · 2021Article
- Findings From World Mental Health Surveys of the Perceived Helpfulness of Treatment for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder.JAMA psychiatry · 2020Article
- Virtual Reality Treatment for Public Speaking Anxiety in Students. Advancements and Results in Personalized Medicine.Journal of personalized medicine · 2020Article
- Development of a scale to measure intrapersonal factors influencing speaking up in the operating room.Perspectives on medical education · 2019Article
- From Extinction Learning to Anxiety Treatment: Mind the Gap.Brain sciences · 2019Article
- Role of social skills training in adolescents with social anxiety disorder.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP · 2019Article
- Expectancies, working alliance, and outcome in transdiagnostic and single diagnosis treatment for anxiety disorders: An investigation of mediation.Cognitive therapy and research · 2018Article
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Abstract
Outcome expectancy, the extent that clients anticipate benefiting from therapy, is theorized to be an important predictor of treatment response for cognitive-behavioral therapy. However, there is a relatively small body of empirical research on outcome expectancy and the treatment of social anxiety disorder. This literature, which has examined the association mostly in group-based interventions, has yielded mixed findings. The current study sought to further evaluate the effect of outcome expectancy as a predictor of treatment response for public-speaking fears across both individual virtual reality and group-based cognitive-behavioral therapies. The findings supported outcome expectancy as a predictor of the rate of change in public-speaking anxiety during both individual virtual reality exposure therapy and group cognitive-behavioral therapy. Furthermore, there was no evidence to suggest that the impact of outcome expectancy differed across virtual reality or group treatments.
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