The Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy on Reduction Social Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Stuttering
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy on reduction social anxiety in children and adolescents with stuttering.
The Methods of present study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest control group design. The statistical population included all children and adolescents aged 8 to 18 years with Stuttering referred to speech-therapy clinics of Shiraz city in the academic year 2016-2017. The sample consisted of 32 children and adolescents with stutter who had the social anxiety in the clinical boundaries, namely that their test scores were higher than 55, were selected and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. Liebowitz social anxiety Scale for children and adolescents (2003) was used to collect data, which was administered as both the pretest and posttest. The content of solution-focused therapy sessions was provided according to the solution-focused therapy thesis by De Shazer. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) method.
The results of analysis of variance indicated that the mean scores on social anxiety in the experimental groups had significantly decreased in comparison with the mean scores on social anxiety in the control groups. Thus, it can be concluded that solution-focused brief therapy was effective in reducing social anxiety in children and adolescents with Stutter.
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