Thursday, March 28, 2013

Therapy/Psychological Solutions

I've learned other solutions to minimize or abolish insecurity and fears, but since this topic is psychology based, I proposed to find psychological solutions instead. 

I found this article: 

Dadashzadeh, H., Yazdandoost, R., Gharraee, B., & farid, A. (2012). Effectiveness of Cognitive - Behavioral Group Therapy and Exposure Therapy on Interpretation Bias and Fear of Negative Evaluation in Social Anxiety Disorder. (English). Iranian Journal Of Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology, 18(1), 40-51. 

  • This article was actually linked to a social phobia (which I determined as I believe the most common fear in the culture of the world. It even states, "
    It is very common; according to one estimate it is the second most prevalent psychiatric disorder"). The experiment that was made challenged two different therapies for social anxiety disorder: group therapy (which is only made for nonspecific determinants for groups) or a specialized cognitive behavioral group therapy. It turns out that both groups were equal in effectiveness to help social anxiety disorder. 
This article supports the fact that therapy is an efficient way to help social anxieties; nevertheless, there are some factors that need to be taken accounted for when helping with my research topics.
  1. I don't know if group therapy is better than one-on-one therapy with a psychologist/psychiatrist.
  2. This is only for social phobias and not for any other insecurities although the society does play a big role in this situation.
Next, I looked up "interpersonal" and "therapy" after having a hard time looking for some sort of therapy to treat insecurities and fears.
I found an article named,
Salzer, S., Leibing, E., Jakobsen, T., Rudolf, G., Brockmann, J., Eckert, J., & ... Leichsenring, F. (2010). Patterns of interpersonal problems and their improvement in depressive and anxious patients treated with psychoanalytic therapy. Bulletin Of The Menninger Clinic, 74(4), 283-300. doi:10.1521/bumc.2010.74.4.283
  • This article uses psychoanalytic therapy to help with people that have interpersonal problems that relate to depression and anxiousness. The result proves that the subjects have reformed themselves and even built better relationships.
 All these studies do link to my research topic and on top of that because it's hard to just treat insecurities as a "real" psychological disorder; depression, anxiousness, and social anxiety disorder are really close to it.

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