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INTERVENTION REFLECTION Through this series of interventions and tests, I gained valuable insights into supporting individuals with social anxiety using various methods while also identifying challenges and areas for improvement in the project. First, cognitive restructuring, as a psychological theoretical tool, provided participants with an opportunity to recognize their negative thinking patterns. However, due to…

This week, I improved the details of the brochure and created both Chinese and English versions, and then I finalized the brochure design and created an Instagram account to promote the results of my project, including the QR code in the brochure. My Instagram account below: SOCIAL TESTING To test whether my brochure would have…

INTERVENTION This week, I shared my brochure with my classmates and received 15 useful pieces of feedback to help me improve the details of the brochure. I have summarized the key points as follows: More visuals, less text, resource links, highlight keywords, multi-language versions, detailed intervention insights, and stage performers’ backgrounds. I plan to implement…

INTERVENTION – design Since completing the third intervention, I’ve been reflecting on how to help socially anxious individuals who remain silent and hesitant to initiate communication gain the knowledge to improve their social interactions. This led me to the idea of creating a brochure that succinctly presents the theoretical symptoms of social anxiety while sharing…

INTERVENTION This week, I received four detailed pieces of feedback from schoolmates. These were provided after they read the tips I shared and tried them out for a week. Their names are Chris, Kami, Nicole and Tommy. REFLECTIONS Reflecting on this feedback, I recognize both the strengths and the areas for improvement in my approach.…

INTERVENTION PROCESS: This Tuesday, I posted ten flyers at school to find stakeholders, and after waiting for five days, I was lucky to receive responses from four people. I sent each of them the tips I had summarized for alleviating shyness and social anxiety, and they provided me with immediate feedback. However, since these tips…

Since discussing my research question with my new tutor George in September, I refined it to: “How can shy people with social anxiety relieve their emotions during social interactions?” The problem I had was the lack of expert suggestions from different perspectives. Therefore, I interviewed 11 stage performers during the first week of October and…

In August, I delved into my third book, “Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness,” authored by Gillian Butler. This insightful self-help guide is rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and draws on the author’s wealth of knowledge and experience from working at the NHS and the Oxford Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Centre. Compared to the book I…

To improve the first intervention, I invited individuals who, in response to the survey I conducted in July, self-identified as shy when answering the question “Do you consider yourself a shy person?” These individuals were asked to read about the logical framework of shyness formation and a list of cognitive distortions. Here is the feedback…

After my second tutorial with my tutor David, and reflecting on his feedback as well as all the work I’ve done over the summer, I realized that there are shortcomings in my intervention. For the first intervention, cognitive restructuring, I need to supplement it by collecting readers’ responses, rather than just providing them with reading…