Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention
Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention (MASSI) is based on the principles of CBT, addressing an individual's thoughts, feelings, and actions, as well as the interactions among these three domains, to bring about desired changes.
With a focus on the present, CBT is action-oriented and tends to be a relatively time-limited intervention (i.e., typically 12-16 sessions). The intervention is didactic in nature; the therapist and adolescent work collaboratively to explore how cognitions contribute to anxious feelings and avoidance behaviors and, in turn, how these feelings and behaviors contribute to faulty cognitions.
Interpersonal relationships with family and peers are also important considerations in treatment planning, and social skills development is often one goal of a cognitive-behavioral intervention
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