Management of Anxiety and Insecurity in School Students through Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
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2012
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From Senthil Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, 60
school students (40 boys & 20 girls) in the age range of 15-17 years were selected by
the Purposive Sampling and were screened using Case Study Schedule (Hemalatha,
2008), Anxiety Inventory (Nandhini, 2005) and Insecurity Questionnaire (G. C. Patti).
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy was administered to the school students (Tull, 2009).
Five sessions of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy was given daily, for a week. Each
session lasted for one hour. After two weeks the subject reassessed using the Case
Study Reassessment (Hemalatha, 2008), Insecurity Questionnaire (G. C. Patti) and
Anxiety Inventory (Nandhini, 2005). Initially 63% of the students had ‘high’ Anxiety
and none of them had ‘high anxiety’ after Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. There
was a significant reduction in the anxiety and insecurity from ‘high’ to ‘low’ after
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. The symptoms reported by the school students were
disturbed sleep, short temper, head ache, confusion, giddiness, lack of interest and
day dreaming. The common negative emotions were fear, worry, anger, irritability,
anxiety, hostility and depression. After Cognitive Behaviour Therapy there was a
drastic reduction in the Symptoms and Negative Emotions of the students.