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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"social phobia"”.
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Imagery and the self in social phobia
… of negative self-images in the maintenance of social phobia. Although evidence suggests that in social phobia these images influence some cognitive, affective and behavioural responses in social situations, it is unclear how they exert their effect. The literature review examines the …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Functional Relationship between Social Phobia and Cigarette Smoking
Individuals with Social Phobia (SP) represent a large group with elevated rates of cigarette smoking and cessation rates lower than that of individuals without psychopathology. For individuals with SP, cigarette smoking may be used to reduce social anxiety in anticipation of and during social …
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A Descriptive Study of the Similitude That Exists Between Shyness, Generalized Social Phobia, and Avoidant Personality Disorder
… and the conceptual similarities of generalized social phobia (GSP), avoidant personality disorder (APD), and shyness. Past research on GSP and APD, conducted by Herbert, J.D., Hope, D.A., and Bellack, A.S. (1992; Holt, C.S., Heimberg, R.G., and Hope, D.A. (1992); and Turner, S.M., Beidel, D.C., …
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Modifying interpretation bias in adolescents with clinical levels of social phobia: An explorative case design series using Cognitive Bias Modification.
… (14 to 17 years old) with clinical levels of social phobia symptoms completed a seven session CBM-I programme at home via the internet. The programme trained adolescents to interpret ambiguous situations in a positive manner. Imagery of oneself in the scenarios was also encouraged in an …
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Neurobiological Correlates of Anxiety and Comorbid Social Phobia in Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder: A Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Clinical Trial
… between depressive symptom response and comorbid social phobia symptoms such that participants without social phobia symptoms were more likely to show a significant reduction in depressive symptoms. Neurobiological differences in terms of functional connectivity were found, based upon anxiety …
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A Quantitative Neural Biomarker for Rejection Estimation: A Neuroeconomic Approach for Evaluating Theory of Mind
The clinical presentation of social phobia suggests that alterations in theory of mind (TOM) may play a systematic role in the development and maintenance of the disorder. In the current study we leverage a quantitative neuroeconmic approach to probe for neural and behavior markers of cognitive …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY AND ALCOHOL USE IN A COLLEGE STUDENT SAMPLE
Some individuals with social phobia frequently use alcohol, a behavior that may often result in the alleviation of anticipatory or performance anxiety in social situations. Reinforcement of drinking behavior may eventually lead to alcohol abuse or possibly the more severe condition of dependence. …
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Development and validation of the cognitive vulnerability schemas questionnaire for anxious youth
… schema were: (1) Generalized Anxiety and Social Phobia Schema, and (2) Separation Anxiety Schema. The measure demonstrated good psychometric properties on a range of indices of reliability and validity. Results indicated that scores on the questionnaire subscales predicted anxiety …
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Social Skills among Socially Anxious Children in Iceland
… of this study was to examine the nature of social skills in socially anxious children from a social learning theory perspective. The reasons why socially anxious children often perform poorly in social situations have not yet been fully resolved. Is it due to lack of social skills or are …
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What do recent developments in the area of self-compassion have to offer the treatment of social anxiety?
… enhancing<br/>self-compassion can buffer against social-evaluative concerns (Leary, Tate,<br/>Allen, & Adams, 2007, Neff, 2003a). Additionally, when enhancing selfcompassion<br/>as been used as part of a treatment for mental health problems,<br/>symptoms have reduced (Gilbert & Procter, 2006; …
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Anticipatory processing in social anxiety
Socially anxious individuals often report considerable anticipatory anxiety. A recent cognitive model of social phobia (Clark & Wells, 1995) has suggested that while anticipating a social situation, socially anxious people engage in four biased cognitive processes. First, they recall and dwell on …
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Identification of Early Behavioral Markers of Anxiety and Social Withdrawal in Preschool Children
… for identifying specific behaviors to indicate social anxiety and social withdrawal in preschool children. During an interaction task with a novel adult, 28 children (ages 4 and 5) were observed for specific verbal and non-verbal behaviors (i.e., total utterances, commands, questions, …
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Selective mutism: Unwilling to speak or scared silent?
… 100% of SM children received a diagnosis of social phobia and 53% received an additional anxiety diagnosis. These results support that selective mutism is anxiety based.
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Treatment of anxiety using manualized protocol: a case study
… with comorbid Major Depressive Disorder and Social Phobia. The client voluntarily participated in outpatient individual psychotherapy offered in a private counseling facility. The client's psychosocial assessment is presented and the literature on empirical treatment and developing treatment …
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Predictors of Response to Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder
… and higher atypical symptom cluster score while social phobia was associated with non-responsiveness.
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Examining Change in Health Anxiety Symptoms Resulting From Transdiagnostic, Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behaviour Theapy: The Impact of Therapist Support
… in the treatment of generalized anxiety, panic, social phobia, depression, and health anxiety. Alternatively, transdiagnostic ICBT does not target one specific disorder, rather broad areas observable across different mental health disorders, which results in administering the same treatment …
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The Treatment of Comorbid Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Anxiety in Children
… anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia) were selected for the study. Children were assessed with semi-structured diagnostic interviews and other standardized measures to determine study eligibility. The current study utilized a noncurrent multiple baseline design to …
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Association of positive, negative, and disorganized schizotypy dimensions with affective symptoms and experiences
… Scale (MSS) and measures of depression, anxiety, social phobia, hypomanic traits, and state affect. As expected, positive schizotypy was significantly associated with hypomanic traits, whereas negative schizotypy was associated with reduced positive affect and reduced hypomanic traits. Although …
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