International Journal of Education and Psychological Research

(Print and Online Peer Reviewed Journal)


Print - ISSN: 2349 - 0853
e - ISSN: 2279 - 0179

VOLUME 7 - ISSUE 1

(March 2018)

Understanding and assessing social anxiety among college students and its counseling through CBT


Authors: S.Dharani

Pages: 49-51

Abstract:

Social performance and social skills are very important for today’s students. The fear of social interactions and performance phobia are daily encounters for college youth. In Seminars, presentation, group projects students are expected to speak in front of a large crowd, who they are familiar or unfamiliar to. Students face phobia, avoidance, fear of negative judgment and find difficulty to cope up with these issues. The assessment of these presentations also contributes a major share of their degree grading as well. Thus students need support and help to self boost their level which requires a specialist. Author of this paper, a counselor was able to treat the students through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that is highly effective for social anxiety. The tools used to measure anxiety was Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS), to measure the judgment of negative evaluation was Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (Leary 1983) and to measure the phobia was Social phobia inventory SPIN . The tools were administered pre and post the intervention and results were calculated according to respective tools (SIAS, BFNE,SPIN).Cognitive behavior therapy was intervened with 12 sessions of 2hrs each session (weekly twice) for 32 students of EEE department of age group 20. The researcher has taken data for the time period of August 2017 to September 2017. The result suggests there is reduction and significant impact of CBTcounseling in student’s social anxiety and social phobia