The present study reports the effectiveness of CBT on shyness among Dhat syndrome patients. A total of 60 participants fulfilling inclusion and criteria were selected randomly for the study, of which 30 each of them were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. They were administered Shyness Assessment Test (SAT) developed by D'Souza (2006), which measured shyness in 3 domains (cognitive/affective, physiological and action oriented) was employed to measure the shyness among ED patients. Further, the experimental group underwent underwent a structured CBT programme for 10 sessions. After the CBT prtogramme a post test was administered to see the change in shyness scores. Repeated Measure ANOVA was employed to see the effectiveness of CBT programme on total shyness and 3 domains of shyness. Results revealed that CBT adapted in the present study significantly reduced shyness in Cognitive/affective domain and in total shyness. Specifically in two domains of shyness-cognitive/affective and physiological domains, shyness of DS patients significantly reduced after the CBT programme. Age groups the patients did not have significant influence on the outcome of CBT programme
