Interesting study! Could you say more about what the intervention consisted of? Who were the people administering the intervention? What were their instructions/training? What was the structure of the program? Etc.
Hi there, Angel here, John’s co-founder who ran the study.
Intervention The four-week, one-to-one coaching programme combined motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques, delivered via weekly 60-minute video calls by trained volunteer coaches following a manualised guide.
Session 1 focused on identifying procrastination triggers and building personalised action plans. Sessions 2-3 reviewed progress and addressed unhelpful thoughts and emotions through cognitive restructuring, behavioural activation, and self-monitoring. Session 4 consolidated learning and built a long-term maintenance plan.
Coaches Outside of this RCT, Overcome runs a three-month internship programme to aspiring mental health professionals to get training and hand-on experience delivering coaching. The first month of this internship is a full-time training programme on techniques from MI, CBT, and acceptance and commitment therapy, including workshops, readings, role-plays, and assessments. In the later two months of the internship, the interns then coach adults across the globe to build healthy habits or manage low mood/worries.
For this RCT, five volunteer coaches from Overcome were trained and delivered the procrastination coaching programme. The selected coaches performed strongly in their initial training and had promising client outcomes.
To prepare the selected coaches, they received two hours of study-specific training, including a workshop on the intervention protocol and a role-play session. They also attended weekly one-hour group supervision with a counselling psychologist to discuss and troubleshoot client cases.
Interesting study! Could you say more about what the intervention consisted of? Who were the people administering the intervention? What were their instructions/training? What was the structure of the program? Etc.
Hi there, Angel here, John’s co-founder who ran the study.
Intervention
The four-week, one-to-one coaching programme combined motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques, delivered via weekly 60-minute video calls by trained volunteer coaches following a manualised guide.
Session 1 focused on identifying procrastination triggers and building personalised action plans. Sessions 2-3 reviewed progress and addressed unhelpful thoughts and emotions through cognitive restructuring, behavioural activation, and self-monitoring. Session 4 consolidated learning and built a long-term maintenance plan.
Coaches
Outside of this RCT, Overcome runs a three-month internship programme to aspiring mental health professionals to get training and hand-on experience delivering coaching. The first month of this internship is a full-time training programme on techniques from MI, CBT, and acceptance and commitment therapy, including workshops, readings, role-plays, and assessments. In the later two months of the internship, the interns then coach adults across the globe to build healthy habits or manage low mood/worries.
For this RCT, five volunteer coaches from Overcome were trained and delivered the procrastination coaching programme. The selected coaches performed strongly in their initial training and had promising client outcomes.
To prepare the selected coaches, they received two hours of study-specific training, including a workshop on the intervention protocol and a role-play session. They also attended weekly one-hour group supervision with a counselling psychologist to discuss and troubleshoot client cases.