Will Cognitive behavioural therapy help with social situations and social skills?

Question

and what else can it help in

Answer 1

CBT helps you to analyse the way that what you think affects how you feel and behave.  So it may help you with social phobias and social anxieties if you 'automatically' compare yourself unfavourably to others and this affects your social performance. Only the therapist who does your assessment will be able to say if they think the therapy they offer will be effective because the causation for each person's behaviour can be very different.

Answer 2

If coping with anxiety in social situations is your problem, it may well be helpful. It is not of course really designed to improve your social skills, this would require a different form of educational program.

Answer 3

I went through CBT about six years ago due to depression.  I also am very awkward and shy in social situations and don't really have any social skills.  But, CBT did help me learn the skills to change my thinking and it changed my life for the better.  I am off meds and am very happy.  I am still shy and awkward in social situations, but I don't let it get to me like I used to - CBT helped in that way.  No matter what, I am an advocate of CBT and feel it should be offered more and before a person is placed on all kinds of meds.