Group Exposure Workshops for Socially Anxious Undergraduates

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

200

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

June 12, 2024

Primary Completion Date

October 1, 2025

Study Completion Date

October 1, 2025

Conditions
Social Anxiety DisorderPublic Speaking FearPublic Speaking AnxietySocial 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.

Trial Locations (1)

80302

RECRUITING

Renee Crown Wellness Institute and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder

All Listed Sponsors
lead

University of Colorado, Boulder

OTHER