Cognitive Behavior For Group Therapy

Cognitive behavioral for group therapy, resulting in a treatment protocol designed specifically for social anxiety disorder( Heimberg& Becker,2002).Cognitive-behavioral group therapy involves putting the behavioral techniques of CBT to practice in a group setting to change maladaptive and dysfunctional beliefs. Cognitive therapy groups ( also known as : CBGT) address understanding and changing cognitive processes about anxiety. Group members learn how maladaptive thinking leads to anxiety; the focus is on helping members control their thought processes and anxiety thinking. Also is helps the individuals to practice new methods of dealing with situations that might lead to anxiety. In a safe group environment, the members are encouraged to confront their anxiety and change the way that their think, feel about certain social circumstances and work through their cognitive changes. Cognitive methods give the person with social anxiety a feeling of control over their anxiety in social situations.
Group members are taught specific coping skills in areas such as affect regulation, the development of relationships and crisis management by carrying out homework assignments, self –monitoring, practicing skills and to achieve specific goals.
One of the central goals of cognitive therapy is to identify irrational beliefs and to change them with more realistic, accurate and flexible views which influence how you interpret your environment. A change in your core beliefs will lead to long-lasting improvement of your anxiety symptoms.
The working of the cognitive model is reviewed in each group session by the group leader focusing on its relationship to the difficulties and addictive processes of members. Group leader take an active role in mod...

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...r proportions of responders than placebo or ES conditions Later than 12 weeks, however, phenelzine clients were significantly more improved than CBGT clients on some measures, (Heimberd et al. 1998).
On the other hand Tucker and Oei (2007), examined the evidence base for group CBT and individual CBT to calculate which is the most cost-effective as well as support that CBT group is more cost-effective for depression but less cost effective for anxiety and social phobia.
Additionally, both meta-analyses and randomized trials (Fedoroff&Tayor,2001 Gould, Buckminster, Pollack, Otto, & Yap, 1997; Powers, Sigmarsson, & Emmelkamp, 2008; Taylor, 1996), have proved that individual therapy is as efficacious as group treatment. In one randomized trial, individual therapy was somewhat more effective than group therapy (Stangier, Heidenreich, Peitz, Lauterbach, & Clark, 2003).