The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy training on the internalized shame of people with social anxiety

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy training on the internalized shame of people with social anxiety. The statistical population of the research was all Gorgan high school students with symptoms of social anxiety, ۳۴ of them as a sample were selected and then randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received ۸ sessions of ۹۰ minutes of cognitive behavioral therapy; But the control group did not receive any intervention. The tools used in the research were: internalized shame scale (Cook, ۱۹۹۳) and social anxiety questionnaire (Kanover, ۲۰۰۰). Covariance analysis was used to analyze the research data. The results showed that cognitive behavioral therapy was effective on the internalized shame of people with social anxiety.

کلیدواژه ها:

social anxiety ، cognitive-behavioral therapy ، internalized shame