The Study Of The Effect Of Existential Group Psychological Counseling On The Intervention Of High School Students' Social Anxiety

Social anxiety is a specific form of anxiety.It is an emotion characterized by a discomfort or a fear when a person is in a social interaction that involves a concern of being judged or evaluated by others.It is typically characterized by an intense fear of what others are thinking about them(specifically fear of embarrassment or humiliation,criticism,or rejection),which results in the individual feeling anxious.In this article,the social anxiety only refers to the psychological problems which can be completely solved through psychological therapy alone and can be defined as: the individual,in public places or social situations,fear of being focused on or evaluated,fear of embarrassment or humiliation,and with negative self-assessment,experiences tension and discomfort,often with avoidance behavior.Group counseling is a form of psychological counseling,which refers to training group members to become more sensitive to interpersonal problems by means of a more liberal group activities and discussions.Its main purpose is to help the trainees(normal)enhance and improve interpersonal perception and interpersonal skills,so as to correct their behavior,help them learn to build good relationships,improve work efficiency,and improve life quality.Existential psychotherapy is a product of the combination of existential philosophy and psychotherapy,and it is a kind of dynamic treatment.It focuses on the situation(anxiety)rooted in individual existence itself such as existence,value and freedom,responsibility,death,and loneliness.Treatment should be aimed at current,neither backward nor forward;the goal of treatment is to help visitors to choose a new life.No special technology and method suit all the visitors;instead,other psychological treatments are used to help visitors to reestablish their view of the world,the life and their value,guide the visitors to know themselves and understand their own experience correctly and become the masters of their own fate.This study selects high school students as the research object,trying the method of existential group psychological counseling to intervene in the widespread phenomenon of social anxiety,seeking effective measures to improve high school students' social anxiety and providing more reference for the practice that school education on students' psychology intervenes in the high school students' social anxiety.This study selects 20 students with the tendency of social anxiety in Grade One,Panjin Senior High School,and adopts existential group counseling method to intervene in 10 students of the experimental group with moderate social anxiety.After eight times of group psychological counseling within two months,by comparing with the control group before and after the study,and tracking and feedback,it shows that the effect is remarkable.It concludes from the study that the group counseling with existential psychotherapy has good effects on high school students' social anxiety.