Self-Views in Social Anxiety Disorder: The Impact of CBT versus MBSR
Journal of Anxiety Disorders January 10, 2017 Matthew D Thurston, P. Goldin, R. Heimberg et al.
Cognitive-behavioral group therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction both improved self-views in social anxiety disorder. One hundred eight unmedicated patients were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of CBGT, MBSR, or a waitlist. At baseline, patients endorsed more negative and fewer positive self-views than 40 healthy controls. Both therapies decreased negative self-views and increased positive self-views from pre- to post-treatment. Increases in positive self-views, but not decreases in negative ones, predicted reduced social anxiety symptoms. Enhancement of positive self-views may be a shared therapeutic process for both treatments.