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Applying Design Thinking to Coping with Social Anxiety

Yuan, Meng
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-9402
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin159216877650761

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2020, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Social anxiety is a mental health issue caused by genetic factors, family environment, and unhelpful thinking that develops from traumatic events and psychological vulnerability. The most widely accepted coping technique that has been used by the mental therapist is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). However, the trustful therapeutic relationship, which is necessary for maintaining the effectiveness of CBT, is hard to build and becomes an obstacle for the treatment. This study investigated what causes the difficulty of building a trustful therapeutic relationship by interviewing social anxiety patients and psychological experts. It turned out that patient self-narrative ability is an important factor that influences the quality of therapist-patient communication. The value and the feasibility of using design thinking to improve the patient self-narrative ability were then discussed. A social anxiety handbook was proposed, guiding people with social anxiety to use design thinking methods to understand and reflect on their social anxiety, and could be presented to the therapist as a medium of communication. The handbook was evaluated and reviewed by psychological experts and designers, and the results support that applying design thinking is able to benefit the communication, thus helping to cope with social anxiety.
Heekyoung Jung, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Emily Verba Fischer, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
81 p.
Design
Social Anxiety; Design Thinking; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Therapeutic Relationship; Empathy; Handbook

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  • Yuan, M. (2020). Applying Design Thinking to Coping with Social Anxiety [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin159216877650761

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yuan, Meng. Applying Design Thinking to Coping with Social Anxiety. 2020. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin159216877650761.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yuan, Meng. "Applying Design Thinking to Coping with Social Anxiety." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin159216877650761

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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