Effectiveness of Analogical Schema Therapy in Reducing the Chronic Social Anxiety Symptoms of Hospital Personnel (Single Subject Design)

The research purpose was to assess the effectiveness of analogical schema therapy in reducing the chronic social anxiety symptoms of hospital personnel. A total of 5 client suffering from social anxiety, were recruited through the administration of structured DSM–IV(SCID), & using purposive sampling & subsequent to being qualified in accordance with therapeutic conditions, they under went the treatment process. The study employed a pretest, post–test, follow–up (PPF) design & the patients in the study received 3–month, 13 session SC–MAP. Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ–LF) were the research tools. repeated measurement were employed to analyze the data. Recovery percentage was also applied to measure the clinical significance. the data analysis revealed that SC–MAP led to significant reductions in symptoms & healing the early schemas. Moreover, there was no lessening of effectiveness with recovery rates in the follow–up study, 2 month after the treatment.