The Effectiveness of Cognitive, Meta-cognitive, and Behavioral Model on Reducing Anxious Thoughts in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder

Introduction: this study was conducted in order to examine the effectiveness of cognitive, meta-cognitive, and behavioral model on the reduction of anxious thoughts in patients with social anxiety disorder.methods: the study method was semi-experimental with a pre-posttest design and a control group. the statistical population contained all the patients with social anxiety disorder referring to public and private centers in kermanshah in 2016 which were selected using available sampling method. a total of 30 patients who were chosen through structured interviews (scid-i), and well’s questionnaire of anxious thoughts (1994), were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. twelve cognitive, meta-cognitive, and behavioral therapy sessions due to the developed model and on the basis of relevant theoretical insights was done twice a week for the experimental group while the control group received no interventions. after the treatment, both groups were evaluated with the test. for data analysis, one-way covariance (ancova) was used.results: the findings showed that cognitive, meta-cognitive, and behavioral developed model has been effective on the reduction of anxious thoughts among patients with social anxiety disorder in the experimental group (p<0.001).conclusion: considering the effectiveness of the model, it seems that therapists and counselors can use this developed model to reduce anxious thoughts among patients with social anxiety disorder.