The effectiveness of the Brief Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy in occurrence symptoms of social anxiety

Abstract

Introduction and Aims: Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental disorders which makes several problems for patients with restricting their abilities. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the Brief Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy in reducing symptoms of social anxiety.Materials and Methods: 20 participants of secondary school female students in Karaj among students with significant social anxiety scores (resulting from the administering the Spin questionnaires), selected via Cluster sampling and randomly were assigned to experimental and control groups of ten persons. Then a Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy based on the model of Morris administered and again at the end of the treatment two groups were assessed by using the Social Anxiety Scale. Repeated measure analysis of variance was used for the data analysis method.Results: Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been create a significant change in the level of social anxiety scores in the significant level of P<0.001. In this way the intervention reduced social anxiety scores of the experimental group (F=305.3) and these changes persisted during both of 1-month and 3-month follow-up.Conclusion: Cognitive behavior group therapy based on the Morris model can reduce social anxiety disorder in girl students.* Corresponding author: Tehran, Kharazmi University, Faculty of Human Science, Department of Psychology.Email: [email protected]

Keywords

• Social anxiety
• Cognitive behavior therapy
• Group therapy
• Students