Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Anxiety in Youth Social anxiety is a type of anxiety problem common in children. It is usually described as an overwhelming fear resulting from intense feelings of embarrassment and shyness. Thus, young people affected by it may experience extreme discomfort when participating in everyday social situations, especially when they have to perform in unfamiliar social situations. With social anxiety, an individual's life is constantly disrupted by the fear of embarrassment (Rapee, 1995). Affected people may not be able to enjoy social activities and may even avoid some. The life interference and impairments associated with social anxiety could therefore be serious. Attention to social anxiety increased significantly in the early 1990s, and cognitive models began to be proposed to explain the maintenance of social anxiety. This facilitated further investigation into the nature of the maladaptive behavioral pattern as well as corresponding treatments. Both well-known cognitive behavioral models of social anxiety suggest that attention to threatening stimuli plays an important role in maintaining social fear (Clark & ​​Wells, 1995; Viol & Heimberg, 1997). Both models suggest that a number of beliefs and assumptions about the self and the social world are activated when individuals with social anxiety associate with social situations. It is assumed that it is necessary to display excessively high standards of social performance, otherwise it must lead to aversive social consequences. Both models suggest that these underlying social assumptions trigger a shift in attention. Not only do these individuals set high standards for themselves, but they are also environmentally sensitive... middle of paper ... designed to reduce these deficiencies. These techniques include therapist modeling, behavioral rehearsal, corrective feedback, social reinforcement, and homework. A unique element of CBGT is a scheduled snack break designed to provide exposure to public eating and opportunities to practice social skills. Social skills training can also produce therapeutic effects by giving individuals the opportunity to repeatedly practice feared social behaviors, as well as confront feared situations and provide corrective feedback on the adequacy of one's behavior. social inherent to the teaching of such training. can be easily combined with other techniques, such as cognitive restructuring or exposure. Empirical evidence The effectiveness of CBGT has been demonstrated in a number of well-designed studies.