Treatment: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
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Brief Summary
· Basic premise: thoughts, feelings and behaviors are inter-related, so altering one can help to alleviate problems in another
· Essence of therapy: Cognitive therapy techniques focus on modifying the catastrophic thinking patterns and beliefs that social failure and rejection are likely; exposure therapies are designed to gradually encourage the individual to enter feared social situations and try to remain in those situations.
· Length: approx. 12 sessions
Treatment Resources
Treatment Manuals/ Outlines /
Training Materials and Workshops /
Measures, Handouts and Worksheets /
Self-help Books /
Smartphone Apps
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Video Descriptions /
Clinical Trials /
Meta-Analyses and Systematic Reviews /
Other Treatment Resources
Treatment: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
TREATMENT RESOURCES
Note: The resources provided below are intended to supplement not replace foundational training in mental health treatment and evidence-based practice.
Treatment Manuals and Outlines
Manuals
· Comprehensive Cognitive Therapy for Social Phobia (Ledley, Foa & Huppert)
· Group CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder (Heimberg, Turk & Hope)
· Herbert et al.?
Books Available for Purchase Through External Sites
· Managing Social Anxiety (Hope, Heimberg & Turk)
· Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Phobia: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Strategies (Heimberg & Becker)
Outlines
· CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder (Hofmann)
· Herbert et al.
Training Materials and Workshops
Measures, Handouts and Worksheets
· Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS)
· Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN)
· Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (FNE)
· Record of Weekly Self-Report Measures
· Blank Model of Social Phobia
· Annotated Model of Social Phobia
· Safety Behaviors Checklist
· Video Feedback Recording Form (Safety Behaviors Experiment)
· Subjective Unity of Discomfort Scale (SUDS)
· Fear Hierarchy (of Social Situations)
· Worksheet for Exposures
· Imaginal Exposure Recording Form
· Cognitive Distortions
· Dispute Questions
· Automatic Thought Record
· Attention and Safety Behaviors Monitoring Form
Measures Available for Purchase Through External Sites
· Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI)
Self-help Books [for use as an adjunct to in-person treatment]
Books Available for Purchase Through External Sites
· Managing Social Anxiety (Hope, Heimberg & Turk)
· Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook (Antony & Swinson)
Important Note: The books listed above are based on empirically-supported in-person treatments. They have not necessarily been evaluated empirically either by themselves or in conjunction with in-person treatment. We list them as a resource for clinicians who assign them as an adjunct to conducting in-person treatment.
Smartphone Apps [for use as an adjunct to in-person treatment]
Apps Available for Purchase Through External Sites
· iCBT (Bonfire Development Advisors)
· Anxiety Coach (Mayo Clinic)
· eCBT (MindApps LLC)
Important Note: The apps listed above are based on empirically-supported in-person treatments. They have not necessarily been evaluated empirically either by themselves or in conjunction with in-person treatment. We list them as a resource for clinicians who assign them as an adjunct to conducting in-person treatment.
Video Demonstrations
Video Repository
· Group CBT for SAD (Hofmann et al.)
· Presenting the Model (Hofmann et al.)
· Assigning Homework (Hofmann et al.)
· Exposure Rationale (Hofmann et al.)
· Speech Exposure (Hofmann et al.)
· Social Cost Exposure (Hofmann et al.)
· In Vivo Exposures (Hofmann et al.)
· Herbert role plays
· CTSA videos?
· Hope?
· Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety (Wenzel)
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Videos Available for Purchase Through External Sites
· Shyness and Specific Phobia (APA/Albano)
Clinical Trials
· Cognitive therapy versus fluoxetine in generalized social phobia (Clark et al., 2003)
· Cognitive—behavioral therapy versus supportive therapy in social phobia (Cottraux et al., 2000)
· Fluoxetine, comprehensive cognitive behavioral therapy, and placebo in generalized social phobia (Davidson et al., 2004)
· Cognitive—behavioral group treatment for social phobia: Effectiveness at five-year followup (Heimberg et al., 1993)
· Treatment of social phobia in cognitive-behavioral groups (Heimberg et al., 1994)
· Cognitive behavioral group therapy versus phenelzine therapy for social phobia (Heimberg et al., 1998)
· Cognitive mediation of treatment change in social phobia (Hofmann, 2004)
· Cognitive therapy for social phobia: individual versus group treatment (Stangier, et al., 2003)
Meta-analyses and Systematic Reviews
· Cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological treatment for social phobia: A meta-analysis (Gould et al., 1997)
· Psychological treatment of social anxiety disorder: a meta-analysis (Acarturk et al., 2009)
· Meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioral treatments for social phobia (Taylor, 1996)
· Cognitive and behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders: A review of meta-analytic findings (Deacon & Abramowitz, 2005)
· The treatment of social anxiety disorder (Rodebaugh, Holaway, & Heimberg, 2004)
· Cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder: Current status and future directions (Heimberg, 2002)
Reviews Available for Purchase Through External Sites
· Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: The State of the Science (Gordon, Wong, & Heimberg)
Other Treatment Resources
· Cognitive-behavioral treatment of social phobia: new advances (Huppert et al., 2003).
· Cognitive Factors that Maintain Social Anxiety Disorder (Hofmann, 2007)
· Social Mishap Exposures for Social Anxiety Disorder (Fang et al., 2013)
Available for Purchase Through External Sites
· Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Evidence-Based and Disorder-Specific Treatment Techniques (Hofmann & Otto, 2008)
· Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Applying the Approach (Rowa, Milosevic, & Antony)