Fundamentals of Mental Health

Fundamentals of Mental Health

Effectiveness of group reality therapy on symptoms of social anxiety, interpretation bias and interpersonal relationships in adolescents

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Nasrin Khaleghi 1
Mahdi Amiri 2
Elham Taheri 3
1 MS. in clinical psychology, Islamic Azad University, Branch of Neyshabour, Neyshabour, Iran
2 Assistant professor of clinical psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
3 Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
10.22038/jfmh.2017.8326
Abstract
Introduction: The present study investigates the effectiveness of group reality therapy on symptoms of social anxiety, interpretation bias and interpersonal relationships in adolescents.
 Materials and Methods: The research population of this clinical research consisted of all students in ninth grade female Sabzevar city in academic year of 2016-2017 that this number based on social anxiety scale score teens, a negative interpretation consequences social and interpersonal relationships in the pre-test were 24 persons who were selected via convenient method and they randomly divided into two groups of experimental and control. The experimental group received group reality therapy and the controls received no treatment. Data analyzed through covariance analysis and SPSS software version 21.
 Results: The results showed that social anxiety scores and interpretation bias and interpersonal relationships in adolescents who participated in the experimental group than in the control group have been replaced teens that had a significant change (P<0.05).
Conclusion: It seems that group reality therapy is effective on social anxiety, interpretation bias and interpersonal relationships in adolescents.
Keywords
Adolescent
interpersonal relationships
Reality therapy
Social anxiety
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Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 19, Issue 2
March and April 2017
Pages 77-83