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Comment author: ChristianKl 08 August 2013 11:43:18AM 3 points [-]

Plus points if you can cite peer reviewed studies that indicate that said professional is effective at increasing people social skills.

Comment author: passive_fist 08 August 2013 08:25:49PM 2 points [-]

Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (CBT) is very effective and there is much published research on it; I suggest you have a look (peaigr has linked a meta-study below).

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 August 2013 02:57:54PM *  1 point [-]

I think under the definition of CBT of the study that peaigr mentions peirce, he's already engaging in CBT when doing his exposure therapy.

The study also says:

Specific therapy techniques, such as exposure and cognitive restructuring, were not associated with higher effect sizes. However, given the substantial heterogeneity in the samples and treatment approaches used in the studies, it is difficult to make firm conclusions about the relative efficacy of different CBT techniques.

It basically provides no evidence that seeking a professional has an effect that's better than what peirce is already doing.

Furthermore the study is about raising the confidence of people who have a low baseline and peirce says that he already has an above average baseline.

The studies also seem to be measuring decreased social anxiety as a goal and don't measure the outcome of successful social interactions.

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