Efficacy of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in an Adult with Stammering

The present investigation is a case report which was aimed at studying the use of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in reducing the stammering and social anxiety associated with it. An adult female patient along with her parents visited Clinical Psychology OPD in a private hospital in Lucknow, for psychotherapeutic treatment of stammering. Detail clinical history was taken and pre assessment for stammering and social anxiety was carried out. Therapeutic intervention was conducted using CBT with a structured program. After the completion of 13 weeks intervention sessions post assessment data and at 3 months, follow up data was also obtained. Assessment at pre, post intervention and follow up was carried out using Perceptions of Stuttering Inventory (Woolf, 1967) and Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults-30 (Caballo et al., 2010). This case intervention revealed that CBT is helpful in reducing stammering and social anxiety when both conditions are treated simultaneously. To conclude, it is suggestive that finding from this case report need to be investigated in random control trial to treat the adult stammering.