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ABSTRACT The aim of present study was to evaluate the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy on cognitive, behavioral and emotional symptoms in social phobic patients. The study sample included all patients who were diagnosed with social phobia and referred to clinics psychological and psychological counselling centers of the region 1 of Tehran, which their numbers are 90 patients in a 6 month period. Forty (40) patients with higher scores in social phobia were selected and randomly divided into two groups (experimental and control).For experimental group we used cognitive-behavioral therapy protocol based on Hofmann and Otto in 12 sessions, and control group received no any treatment. For data collection we used social phobia inventory that structured by Moshaveri (2002). This inventory has three subscales as cognitive, behavioral and emotional. Data analyzed with descriptive and MANCOVA test in SPSS software, version 16. Our results showed that cognitive -behavioral therapy has significant effect on total score of social phobic in experimental control at 99% confidence level. Other results showed significant effect on cognitive, behavioral and emotional subscales at 99% confidence level. These results suggestion that cognitive-behavioral therapy can use for treatment the social phobic patient as non-damage and without opposed