Screen LibrarySocial anxiety : clinical, developmental, and social perspectives /
Clinicians, social and developmental psychologists and behavioral geneticists have all conducted research over the past ten years which is essential to furthering our understanding of and treatment of social anxiety disorders. If researchers and clinicians are to successfully combat this disorder, t...
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Elsevier/Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123944276 |
| Summary: |
Clinicians, social and developmental psychologists and behavioral geneticists have all conducted research over the past ten years which is essential to furthering our understanding of and treatment of social anxiety disorders. If researchers and clinicians are to successfully combat this disorder, the literature must fully integrate studies on social anxiety, shyness, and embarrassment with the research on social anxiety disorder subtypes, biological theories and cognitive behavioral or pharmacological treatment outcome studies. This book weaves together research findings gathered by renowned minds across these various disciplines, and chapters deal with both theory and research. Thorough exploration is given as to how to define what constitutes social anxiety, and assessment of the condition and its relationship to other psychological disorders. The biological basis and treatment approaches are also all explored in full. Coverage includes key issues, including related disorders of adult and childhood, relationship to social competence and assertiveness, relationship to perfectionism, social skills deficit hypothesis, comparison between pharmacological and psychosocial treatments, and potential mediators of change in the treatment of social anxiety disorder. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 608 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780123944276 0123944279 |
| Index Number: | RC552 |
| CLC: | R749.99 |
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Toward an understanding of social anxiety disorder -- Delineation of social anxiety. Evolution of terminology and constructs in social anxiety and its disorders / Assessment of social anxiety and social phobia / Shyness, social anxiety, and social anxiety disorder / Are embarrassment and social anxiety disorder merely distant cousins, or are they closer kin? / Social anxiety disorder and its relationship to perfectionism / Social phobia as a deficit in social skills / Relation to clinical syndromes in adulthood / Avoidant personality disorder and its relationship to social phobia / Social anxiety in children and adolescents : biological, developmental and social considerations / Theoretical perspectives. Neuroendocrinology and neuroimaging studies of social anxiety disorder / Genetic basis of social anxiety disorder / Temperamental contributions to the development of psychological profiles / Basic behavioral mechanisms and processes in social anxieties and social anxiety disorders / Cognitive biases in social anxiety disorder / A cognitive behavioral model of social anxiety disorder : update and extension / Social anxiety, social anxiety disorder, and the self / Social anxiety, positive experiences, and positive events / Social anxiety as an early warning system : a refinement and extension of the self-presentation theory of social anxiety / Treatment Approaches. Psychopharmacology for social anxiety disorder / Treatment of social anxiety disorder : a treatments-by-dimensions review / Comparison between psychosocial and pharmacological treatments / Mechanisms of action in the treatment of social anxiety disorder / |