Several experimental, therapist-delivered approaches targeting social skills or social cognition have been developed over the last decade (e.g. [ 62– 66]), and initial studies have shown some promising results (see recent reviews in [ 52, 67, 68]).
Sessions with the experimental ITAB therapist alternated with a session with a control therapist on the same day.
In the experimental group, therapists and participants read the same informational text.
The participating therapists were explicitly asked not to give any information about the contents of the experimental treatment to therapists who did not participate in the experimental intervention.
In the experimental group occupational therapists received the postgraduate course, training days, outreach visits, regional meetings, and access to a reporting system.
At the experimental sites, the occupational therapists (OTs) apply the intervention, i.e. a standardized research-based strategy for HA case management.
The main limitation was that the training time for the interventionists was shorter, and that they had less treatment experience with the experimental intervention than the therapists of the Dutch original trial.
Even if it happens to be true that, as a child of four, I got lost in a shopping mall, we would deny that I personally remember the experience if I had completely forgotten it, and have only later been told about it by my parents, or had such a possibility suggested to me by a therapist or an experimental psychologist.
She's a hypnotherapist and past life regression therapist and does experimental performances with light, sound, and radionics usually as half of Nautical Almanac.
The relaxation condition was intended to be an active control group (as opposed to a waiting list control) that matched the experimental group with regard to therapist contact time [ 29].
Although we did not record the actions undertaken by the occupational therapists to promote the COTiD program, it is likely that occupational therapists in the experimental group put more effort into promoting occupational therapy within their network.
