Examination of the Counseling for University Students with Social Anxiety Disorder by Narrative Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Abstract

　　This study intends to examine, through some practice examples, the counseling by adding narrative therapy such as “externalization” that was developed by White and Epston and others (1990) to cognitive behavior therapy which is supposed to be effective for clients with social anxiety disorder. In this case study, a counselor rewrites the dominant-story told by a client for an alternativestory or retells the story using narrative therapy such as externalization of the problem and questions of exception and cognitive behavior therapy such as exposure and relaxation. We also set a time limit for the counseling interview and conduct it 12 times which is proved to be an effective number for the treatment of youth social disorder. We studied the effect of this counseling by observation of the two examples.