Research Catalog

Title

Social anxiety : clinical, developmental, and social perspectives / edited by Stefan G. Hofmann and Patricia M. DiBartolo.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press/Elsevier, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• DiBartolo, Patricia M. (Patricia Marten)
• Hofmann, Stefan G.

Description

xxvi, 608 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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.

Subject

• Phobic Disorders
• Social phobia
• Social phobia > Etiology
• Social phobia > Treatment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Toward an understanding of social anxiety disorder -- Delineation of social anxiety. Evolution of terminology and constructs in social anxiety and its disorders / Daniel W. McNeil ; Assessment of social anxiety and social phobia / James D. Herbert, Alyssa A. Rheingold, and Lynn L. Brandsma ; Shyness, social anxiety, and social anxiety disorder / Lynne Henderson and Philip Zimbardo ; Are embarrassment and social anxiety disorder merely distant cousins, or are they closer kin? / Rowland S. Miller ; Social anxiety disorder and its relationship to perfectionism / Randy O. Frost, Katharine Glossner, and Sarah Maxner ; Social phobia as a deficit in social skills / Ariel Stravynski, Angela Kyparissis, and Danielle Amado ; Relation to clinical syndromes in adulthood / Amy Wenzel ; Avoidant personality disorder and its relationship to social phobia / James Reich ; Social anxiety in children and adolescents : biological, developmental and social considerations / Michael F. Detweiler, Jonathan S. Comer, and Anne Marie Albano -- Theoretical perspectives. Neuroendocrinology and neuroimaging studies of social anxiety disorder / K. Luan Phan and Heide Klumpp ; Genetic basis of social anxiety disorder / Murray B. Stein and Joel Gelernter ; Temperamental contributions to the development of psychological profiles / Jerome Kagan ; Basic behavioral mechanisms and processes in social anxieties and social anxiety disorders / Daniel W. McNeil, C.W. Lejuez, and John T. Sorrell ; Cognitive biases in social anxiety disorder / Nader Amir and Jessica Bomyea ; A cognitive behavioral model of social anxiety disorder : update and extension / Richard G. Heimberg, Faith A. Brozovich, and Ronald M. Rapee ; Social anxiety, social anxiety disorder, and the self / Lynn E. Alden and Marci J. Regambal ; Social anxiety, positive experiences, and positive events / Todd B. Kashdan and Justin W. Weeks ; Social anxiety as an early warning system : a refinement and extension of the self-presentation theory of social anxiety / Mark R. Leary -- Treatment Approaches. Psychopharmacology for social anxiety disorder / Carlos Blanco, Franklin R. Schneier, Mayumi Okuda, and Michael R. Liebowitz ; Treatment of social anxiety disorder : a treatments-by-dimensions review / Brandon J. Weiss, Debra A. Hope, and Leslie G. Cohn ; Comparison between psychosocial and pharmacological treatments / Mark B. Powers, Michelle Capozzoli, Pamela Handelsman, and Jasper A.J. Smits ; Mechanisms of action in the treatment of social anxiety disorder / Michael W. Otto, Bridget A. Hearon, and Steven A. Safren.

ISBN

• 9780123750969 (hbk.)
• 0123750962 (hbk.)

OCLC

636921140

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library