Group Sandplay Intervention On Social Anxiety

University is the key period of life development, however, college students' mental health problem becoming more and more seriously. At present, social anxiety is one of the psychological problems,which incidence highly, duration often and do harm to the relationship of classmate. In adolescence,the number of college students who has the problem of social anxiety become more huge.Based on Jung's theory sandplay therapy has demonstrated its unique healing role in many fields. It is confirmed that sandplay therapy' active effect in autism, test anxiety,behavior problems, mental health education, attachment,borderline personality disorder,family therapy,children with disabilities, juvenile with suicide attempt,orphaned children,group psychotherapy,Post-disaster psychological assistance and counseling. Recent years,Researchers trying to integrate it with other relevant areas, also has made the good progress.But it's a new exploration to apply the sandplay to the social anxiety.This study measures and evaluates the effectiveness of sandplay therapy in the alleviation of social anxiety of university students. Specifically, it sought to identify whether sandplay therapy was a more effective means to alleviate students'social anxiety.This study adopts the equal-group research design, investigating both the quantitative and qualitative methods. Measures of social anxiety were obtained from the Watson' Social Avoidance and Distress Scale(SADS) before and after the interventions and the results of the different group were compared. Identify and analyze the effectiveness in the alleviation of social anxiety through the descriptions and comments of sandplay therapy processes as well as the transformation of sandplay contents, themes and so on.Conculsions:1.Group cognitive behavior therapy is effective in alleviating social anxiety.2.Group sandplay therapy is effective in alleviating social anxiety.3. The results of the effectiveness of group cognitive behavior therapy is better than groupsandplay therapy in a short time.4. The results indicated that retention of the effectiveness of group sandplay therapy was better than that of the Group cognitive behavior therapy.