Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Reducing Social Anxiety in CollegeStudent

Social anxiety is a mental health condition that is disturbed and often occurs, and this mental health problem israrely diagnosed. So this therapy is rarely used in this problem. Apart from that, social anxiety can also be defined as adisorder where a person experiences excessive fear, worry and stress in social situations. One of the therapies used iscognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy that can overcome conditions ofsocial anxiety and can change negative thoughts into positive ones towards other people and can reduce excessivefeelings that are often experienced. And with this therapy, those of us who experience anxiety disorders duringsocialization can become confident. Therefore, this research aims to find out how Cognitive Behavioral Therapyreduces anxiety levels in social anxiety disorder and whether Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be linked to socialanxiety. The subjects in this research were students who met the criteria for social anxiety. The research method used isa qualitative method using a case study design, which is commonly used to test effectiveness. The result showed thatcognitive therapy could decrease the level of social anxiety experienced by the subjek. In collecting data for thisresearch, researchers used interview techniques, observation, documentation.