Modified Collaborative Assessment VS Standard Assessment on Readiness For Psychotherapy Among Patients With Anxiety

The present study wish to compare the preliminarily effects and feasibility of Modified Collaborative Assessment (MCA) - a novel therapeutic approach to diagnostic assessment - with assessment-as-usual (AAU) among patients with evasiveness as a core psychopathological feature in a randomised controlled study design. The study will include and randomise 42 patients 1:1 to either MCA or AAU, which will be administered as a pre-treatment to the standard psychotherapeutic intervention they will receive in the psychotherapeutic clinic. MCA will utilize standardised psychological tests administered in collaboration with the patients, in order to thorough diagnose the included patients. The tests available will be the Present State Examination (PSE), the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Personality Disorders (SCID-5-PD), the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP), the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2), the Examination of anomalous self-experience (EASE), the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV), the Level of Personality Functioning - Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF), the Personality Inventory for DSM-5, 36 item version (PID-36) and the Conners´ Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS). Data are gathered through a number of questionnaires from patients prior to randomization (T0), at end of MCA (T1) and after four weeks of psychotherapy (T2) - absolute time depend on clinical logistics and timing of group therapy onset.