International Journal of School and Cognitive Psychology
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Abstract

Comparison of C and Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy in Individuals Diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder: A Review

Esra Amet*

Avoidant personality disorder is a psychiatric disorder characterized by avoidance of interpersonal communication, feeling of inadequacy, and reluctance to social activities. There are not many studies in the literature on the treatment of avoidant personality disorder. In the majority of studies, cognitive behavioral therapy method was found to be quite effective in the treatment of avoidant personality disorder with psychotherapy. From this point of view, one of the aims of this study is to compile studies that deal with cognitive behavioral therapy method in the treatment of avoidant personality disorder and present their data. The main problem in avoidant personality disorder arises from interpersonal communication, and cognitive behavior group therapies provide some advantages over individual therapy sessions in this sense. For this reason, another aim is to present suggestions with reasons why cognitive behavioral group therapies may be more effective on this disorder than cognitive behavioral individual therapies, and to compile studies in which cognitive behavioral group therapies are applied on avoidant personality disorder. In this study, studies in domestic and foreign sources, which were conducted with a sample group with avoidant personality disorder and social anxiety disorder, were examined and the study was prepared by reviewing the literature, which is one of the secondary data collection techniques. Since there are not many studies on avoidant personality disorder in the literature, considering the high similarity and comorbidity of avoidant personality disorder with social anxiety disorder, studies on cognitive behavioral group therapies related to social anxiety disorder were also compiled. As a result of the studies examined, it has been found that the symptoms of avoidant personality disorder are related to the distorted cognition of the people and cognitive behavioral therapies are a very effective approach because they increase the awareness of the automatic thoughts that go through the minds of the clients, question their correctness and provides alternative thoughts to replace them. The results of studies dealing with the treatment of social anxiety disorder with cognitive behavioral group therapy show that the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapies is higher than individual applications of cognitive behavioral therapies.

Published Date: 2023-08-31; Received Date: 2023-08-01