Group Exposure Workshops for Socially Anxious Undergraduates

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.

Conditions

• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Public Speaking Fear
• Public Speaking Anxiety
• Social Fear

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Group Exposure for Social Anxiety

Group exposure therapy for social anxiety and public speaking fears.

BEHAVIORAL

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.

BEHAVIORAL

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.

BEHAVIORAL

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Colorado, Boulder

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

30 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-06-12

Primary Completion

2025-10-01

Completion

2025-10-01

Countries

• United States

Study Locations