Contents of It's not All in Your Head by Asmundson and Taylor

expected due to the short duration of the study, SHB participants had not completed all
the items on their ERP hierarchies. These items represented anxiety-provoking tasks that
they were actively avoiding. ERP can take many weeks to complete and participants were
expected to complete this after the study. Health anxiety and occupational and social
functioning would have likely improved once the active avoidance was reduced.
Due to 4 participants dropping out of the study, client satisfaction and therapeutic
alliance data was collected for only 6 SHB participants. The mean score for client
satisfaction on the CSQ-8 was M = 23.17 (SD = 5.78). Although the score is below
average, it is within one standard deviation of the CSQ-8 normative mean reported in the
Nguyen, Attkisson, & Stegner (1983) validation study (M = 27.09, SD = 4.01). This
suggests that client satisfaction with the treatment program was within the average range.
The HAq-II was used to assess participants‘ therapeutic alliance with their check-in
providers. The mean score on the HAq-II was M = 80.00 (SD = 6.13; below the cut-off
score of 86; Luborsky et al., 1996) indicating that the participants experienced a poor
therapeutic alliance. This may be due to the brief nature of check-ins, the fact that 4 of the
6 participants surveyed only received telephone check-ins with no in-person contact, and
the structured nature of the check-in sessions that were unlike traditional therapy
sessions.
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