All Hands on Deck: Youth, Therapists, Parents and School Professionals Joining Forces in a Personalized, Brief and Intensive Exposure-based Intervention for Youth With Persistent Anxiety or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Methods: A multiple baseline single-case experimental design is used (qualitative and quantitative). Participants are children/adolescents (10-18 years; N=12) with an AD/OCD diagnosis for whom standard CBT did not lead to sufficient improvement. Children and parents are asked to complete questionnaires before, during, and after the treatment. Children, parents, and school professionals will be asked to participate in qualitative interviews to evaluate their experiences with the HANDS-ON treatment program.
• Age between 10-18 years old;
• Meeting DSM-5 criteria for an anxiety disorder/OCD, based on a semi-structured interview (SCID-5 Jr; \[12\]) and clinical judgement of an experienced and authorized clinician;
• Non-responder to previous CBT (insufficient benefits from previous CBT for AD/OCD).
⁃ Comorbid diagnoses are allowed except for those interfering with safety or warranting immediate treatment, e.g., acute suicidality or psychosis.