A Randomized Controlled Trial of Compassion Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

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GHARRAEE BANAFSHEH; ZAHEDI TAJRISHI KOMEIL; Ramezani Farani Abbas; BOLHARI JAFAR; FARAHANI HOJJATOLLAH

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Journal: Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Year:2018 | Volume:12 | Issue:4 Page(s): 0-0

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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Compassion Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

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Compassion

Mindfulness

Psychotherapy

Self-Criticism

Shame

Social Anxiety Disorder

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Background: One of the most common anxiety disorders is the Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), which is characterized by intolerable anxiety and self-consciousness in daily social situations. A large body of study is conducted on the treatment of this disorder, though further studies are required on new psychological therapies. Objectives: The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Compassion focused therapy (CFT) on patients with SAD. Methods: The present randomized controlled trial study, which is along with pre-test, post-test, and follow-up with control group, 34 subjects who based on the structured clinical interview for DSM (SCID) had the criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder on the basis of DSM-IV-TR, and had no other severe psychiatric disorders, were assigned completely randomly and equally into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was treated with 12 one-weekly CFT sessions, whereas the control group did not receive any treatment. At the beginning of the research, after 12 weeks and after a follow-up period of 8 weeks, all subjects were evaluated with acceptance and action questionnaire (AAQ-II), mindful attention awareness scale (MAAS), levels of Self-Criticism scale (LOSC), selfCompassion scale (SCS), World Health Organization quality of life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF), and Liebowitz social anxiety scale (LSAS) instruments. In addition to descriptive statistics, repeated measure analysis of variance (RM-ANOVA) was used in order to analyze the findings and using SPSS-21 software all analyzes were conducted. Results: Based on the RM-ANOVA, CFT was significantly more effective than non-treatment in reducing psychological inflexibility, Self-Criticism, and severity of social anxiety symptoms (P < 0. 001) in both post-test and two months’ follow-up. Moreover, CFT was able to significantly increase the Mindfulness levels, self-Compassion, and quality of life in patients with social anxiety (P < 0. 01). Conclusions: Compassion-focused interventions apparently play a quite effective role in reducing symptoms and increasing the quality of life of patients with Social Anxiety Disorder.

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GHARRAEE, BANAFSHEH, ZAHEDI TAJRISHI, KOMEIL, Ramezani Farani, Abbas, BOLHARI, JAFAR, & FARAHANI, HOJJATOLLAH. (2018). A Randomized Controlled Trial of Compassion Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (IJPBS), 12(4), 0-0. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/312306/en

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GHARRAEE BANAFSHEH, ZAHEDI TAJRISHI KOMEIL, Ramezani Farani Abbas, BOLHARI JAFAR, FARAHANI HOJJATOLLAH. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Compassion Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (IJPBS)[Internet]. 2018;12(4):0-0. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/312306/en

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BANAFSHEH GHARRAEE, KOMEIL ZAHEDI TAJRISHI, Abbas Ramezani Farani, JAFAR BOLHARI, and HOJJATOLLAH FARAHANI, “A Randomized Controlled Trial of Compassion Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder,” IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (IJPBS), vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 0–0, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/312306/en

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