Social phobia has been condensed into defining a disorder where people face physical, emotional, and mental distress due to social situations such as encountering groups of people or speaking to a person. According to the Social Anxiety Association, this social phobia has spread enough over the years to now affect 7% of the world’s population. Pioneers, such as Soheli Datta and Sanjukta Das, in the field of psychology have used a method as an asset in order to treat and reduce the distress of this socially phobic affliction: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) deals with providing “therapeutic intervention” for patients dealing with mental disorders and burdens. Datta and Das’ case study deals with treating a twenty-one
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Methods in this case study begin with assessment of the patient through different inventory tests, rated scales, and questionnaires, psychoeducation on the client’s condition in order to explain the phobia and how the individual maintains it, cognitive reconstruction in order to reformulate the way the client thinks through different strategies, and finally relaxation training (Jacobson’s Progressive Muscle Relaxation) where the patient performs physical tasks in order to decrease arousal of the Autonomic and Central Nervous Systems, increase parasympathetic activity, and alter neuroendocrine function.The validity of the design for intervention is ambiguous because the authors indicate how social phobias range according to the socio-cultural conditions imposed on clients and “clinical manifestations”. They state, “Hence deviating from the prescribed CBT structure practiced in the western culture, some changes have been made in the format across the therapeutic process in the present study.”(pg.89) In other words, treating Western culture social phobia will deviate from that of Southeast Asia’s because the symptoms are either more intense or less, hence the structure of the Cognitive Behaviour …show more content…
This aspect was taken into account, along with other ways to analyze their data. As a result, analysis began by first reviewing the patient’s personal case history, her mental status through an exam, a general intelligence assessment, and visually observing her subjective mood and behaviors. Datta and Das then factored in the different forms of assessments they’d done on the patient to conclude and define the level of her Social Phobia. Thus, the patient’s feedback throughout the sessions was taken into account which served as cognitive reconstruction; the patient would write down situations throughout the weeks of the sessions where she’d encounter her phobia, how she’d treat it herself, and the level of her subjective unit of distress. The experimenters proposed: “Throughout the therapeutic process, an intricate interplay between culture and social phobia has been recognized… Moreover, in the present collectivist culture, harmony within the group is the highest priority…”(pg.94) It is evident that culture played the biggest role in not only the actual disorder, but the treatment process as
Methods in this case study begin with assessment of the patient through different inventory tests, rated scales, and questionnaires, psychoeducation on the client’s condition in order to explain the phobia and how the individual maintains it, cognitive reconstruction in order to reformulate the way the client thinks through different strategies, and finally relaxation training (Jacobson’s Progressive Muscle Relaxation) where the patient performs physical tasks in order to decrease arousal of the Autonomic and Central Nervous Systems, increase parasympathetic activity, and alter neuroendocrine function.The validity of the design for intervention is ambiguous because the authors indicate how social phobias range according to the socio-cultural conditions imposed on clients and “clinical manifestations”. They state, “Hence deviating from the prescribed CBT structure practiced in the western culture, some changes have been made in the format across the therapeutic process in the present study.”(pg.89) In other words, treating Western culture social phobia will deviate from that of Southeast Asia’s because the symptoms are either more intense or less, hence the structure of the Cognitive Behaviour …show more content…
This aspect was taken into account, along with other ways to analyze their data. As a result, analysis began by first reviewing the patient’s personal case history, her mental status through an exam, a general intelligence assessment, and visually observing her subjective mood and behaviors. Datta and Das then factored in the different forms of assessments they’d done on the patient to conclude and define the level of her Social Phobia. Thus, the patient’s feedback throughout the sessions was taken into account which served as cognitive reconstruction; the patient would write down situations throughout the weeks of the sessions where she’d encounter her phobia, how she’d treat it herself, and the level of her subjective unit of distress. The experimenters proposed: “Throughout the therapeutic process, an intricate interplay between culture and social phobia has been recognized… Moreover, in the present collectivist culture, harmony within the group is the highest priority…”(pg.94) It is evident that culture played the biggest role in not only the actual disorder, but the treatment process as