Social Anxiety

Associate Professor of Psychology Patricia M. DiBartolo works at Smith College in Northampton MA, USA. Stefan G. Hofmann is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory at Boston University. Dr. Hofmann has served as President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy. His research focuses on the mechanism of treatment change, translating discoveries from neuroscience into clinical applications, emotions, and cultural expressions of psychopathology.

• Section 1. Delineation of Social Anxiety1. Assessment of Social Anxiety and its Clinical Expressions2. Shyness, Social Anxiety, and Social Anxiety Disorder: Comparing and Contrasting3. Cultural Shaping of Social Anxiety4. Social Anxiety, Gender, and Sexuality5. Social Anxiety Disorder and its Relationship to Perfectionism6. Is Social Anxiety Disorder Deficient in Social Skills?7. The Development and Clinical Impact of Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and AdolescentsSection 2. Theoretical Perspectives8. A Developmental Psychopathology Model of Society Anxiety9. Emotion-/Self-Regulation Models of Social Anxiety10. Understanding Society Anxiety in Daily Life-How e-Diary Methods and Digital Phenotyping can Enhance Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Interventions11. Social Anxiety as an Early Warning System: A Refinement and Extension of the Self-Presentation Model of Social Anxiety12. Evolutionary Model of Social AnxietySection 3. Treatment Approaches13. Updating the Self: A Mechanistic Roadmap for Effective Treatment of Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder14. Youth Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment