The Effectiveness of group Gestalt Therapy on Social anxiety and Test anxiety in female's students of Islamic Azad university

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of Group Gestalt Therapy in Social anxiety and Test anxiety in female's students. This research has experimented with pretest-posttest design, conducted with a control and experimental group. The study population included all of the undergraduate students at the University of Sari,Fifty students were selected randomly for this particular purpose. The participants were given Kanver social anxiety, Sarason test anxiety and did pretest. Among those students, twenty of them who experienced more anxiety were chosen. Consequently,therapy was performed on them. At the end of the sessions ,the students in both groups had to do a posttest.The data were analyzed through the utilization of covariance analyses.According to the mean scores, it can be concluded that Gestalt therapy has a significant effect on reducing students' social anxiety.Alsowith respect to the mean scores, it can be concluded that gestalt group therapy is effective in reducing anxiety in students