Evaluating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy based group treatment for trauma symptom management and overall wellbeing in a residential Alcohol and Other Drug treatment facility.
The efficacy of trauma symptom management group-work for reducing trauma symptoms and improving wellbeing, in clients accessing treatment in a residential Alcohol and Other Drug treatment facility.
Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA)
30 participants
Jul 14, 2014
Interventional
Conditions
Summary
A group-based positive mental health and PTSD symptom management program will be implemented into a residential Alcohol and Other Drug treatment facility. Clients will receive education on the causes and effects of trauma, and will be taught trauma symptom management strategies using an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach. The aim is to keep clients in treatment and support them with PTSD symptom management strategies until they can access specialist services post treatment. The evaluation of the project will involve a number of formal assessments as well as retention and self-report data.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria1
- All current clients at We Help Ourselves (WHOS) 'New Beginnings' women's AOD treatment program.
Exclusion Criteria2
- Mental health screenings are carried out as standard practise at New Beginnings to determine eligibility for treatment. Prescreening questionnaires include a severity of dependence scale, frequency and pattern of drug and alcohol use based on the BTOM and ATTOM, Kessler 10, and WHO QoL-8 Quality of life scale.
- Women are not eligible for admission to New Beginnings if they demonstrate florid psychosis, risk of suicide, or if their mental health is deemed too unstable by our mental health nurse.
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Interventions
Clients in a residential Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) treatment facility will attend 8 x 1 hour sessions of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group work over 8 weeks. The treatment will be trialled on 3 separate groups of clients over 12 months. Sessions will include psychoeducation on the causes and effects of trauma. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will be utilised to teach clients appropriate techniques of symptom management. Efficacy will be determined by a reduction in trauma symptoms according to the PTSD Symptom Checklist, and an improvement in wellbeing based in the EUROHIS Quality of Life 8 Item Index. Improvements in psychological distress are also expected, as measured by the Kessler 10 Psychological Distress Scale.
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ACTRN12614000585628