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Group Exposure Workshops for Socially Anxious Undergraduates
Sponsor: University of Colorado, Boulder
Summary
The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of four versions of a workshop for social anxiety and public speaking stress. All participants are current University of Colorado Boulder undergraduate students. Participation in this research study lasts for approximately 8 weeks, and includes a pre-workshop questionnaire, 3 weekly workshop sessions (ranging from 2 to 3 hours each, including a 5-minute post-session questionnaire), a post-workshop questionnaire, and a 1-month follow-up questionnaire.
Official title: Pilot Trial on the Contribution of Peer Leaders and Self-Compassion to Group Exposure Workshops for Socially Anxious Undergraduates
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 30 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
200
Start Date
2024-06-12
Completion Date
2025-10-01
Last Updated
2025-05-20
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Group Exposure for Social Anxiety
Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears.
Self-Compassion Enhanced Group Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety
Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears plus piloted exercises from the investigators' previous studies among socially anxious undergraduates (Slivjak et al., 2022; Slivjak \& Arch, in preparation), refined during the investigators' quality improvement project, that are designed to enhance compassion.
Peer-Enhanced Group Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety
Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears facilitated by a pair of doctoral student and undergraduate student co-facilitators who explicitly use appropriate self-disclosure to establish the co-facilitators as individuals with lived experiences of social anxiety and public speaking fears.
Peer and Self-Compassion Enhanced Group Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety
Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears plus piloted exercises from the investigators' previous studies among socially anxious undergraduates (Slivjak et al., 2022; Slivjak \& Arch, in preparation), refined during the investigators' quality improvement project, that are designed to enhance compassion. These groups are facilitated by a pair of doctoral student and undergraduate student co-facilitators who explicitly use appropriate self-disclosure to establish the co-facilitators as individuals with lived experiences of social anxiety and public speaking fears.
Locations (1)
Renee Crown Wellness Institute and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, United States