The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Social Anxiety in China

Abstract

This article’s purpose is to discover the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on patients who are diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder or people who have high anxiety levels in China. Chinese adolescents have higher anxiety levels that have than adolescents in other countries, and the information about social anxiety and the effectiveness of CBT is not sufficient. In order to find the relationships between CBT and SAD patients in China, this article collected 13 pieces of research that contain information about the effectiveness of CBT and SAD. There is strong evidence that cognitive-behavioral therapy treatment was effective in the Chinese SAD participants. The shame proneness will influence the effectiveness of CBT. The lower the feeling of shame and self-directed attention the patients have, the more effective the CBT will be for the SAD patients. Also, the language used during the CBT session for SAD patients is significant. CBT may be more effective if the language used is the most familiar language that SAD patients speak. However, more research is needed to find further correlations.