Feasibility Study of Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Group Therapy for Females with Social Anxiety

Abstract

This study is aspired to examine the therapy for females with social anxiety. It feasibility of mindfulness and acceptance based group hypothesized that female in the intervention groupwas will have Significantly reduced anxiety as compared to the women in the control group. For this purpose, the sample included 60 female participants, in the age range of 18 to 28 years, selected from Institute were of piofessional psychology from Karachi city. The participants screened through the administration of Mini-Social Phobia were Inventory -SPIN-mini (Connor, Kobak, Churchill, Katzelnick & Davidson, 2001)). After the screaming process the participants were randomly divided in intervention and control group. Participants of intervention group of Mindfulness and Acceptance based group therapy plan. After the post test, Paired sample t-test was employed in order to analyze the obtained data. The results received ten sessions revealed a significant reduction of social anxiety for the participants of intervention group (SD= 2.45) as compared those of the control group (SD= 1.84). Results indicates a significant reduction of social anxiety (p>0.015*). Study findings have veiy important implications for the clinical psychologists for dealing with anxiety issues. Recommendations and limitations of the study have been suggested and mentioned in the further chapters.