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"The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of several psychological treatments for social phobia during adolescence. The sample consisted of 59 adolescents who met the criteria for DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) generalized social phobia. Subjects were assigned to one of three experimental treatments (N=44) or a control condition (N=15), and treatment was provided in school settings. Assessments were conducted at pretest, posttest and after a 1-year follow-up. Between-group and within-group analyses were conducted. Overall, short-term and long-term results show that the active treatments were superior to the control for treating adolescents with generalized social phobia. Specifically, experimental treatments resulted in a significant improvement of self-esteem and social skills as well as a reduction of the symptoms of social anxiety and interference with family, social, and academic life. Issues that may contribute to future research are also discussed."
Social Anxiety and Phobia in Adolescents Development, Manifestation and Intervention Strategies
This volume brings together research into diverse aspects of social anxiety and its clinical form, social phobia, in adolescents. Development of the condition, clinical manifestations and treatment strategies are all addressed, with emphasis on ways in which adolescent development and context are reflected in the manifestation and treatment of symptoms. The book is divided into three parts that review epidemiological, neurobiological and sociopsychological research on vulnerability factors, examine the phenomenology and assessment of social anxiety and phobia in different developmental contexts and discuss evidence-based prevention and treatment options for adolescent social anxiety and phobia. Social Anxiety and Phobia in Adolescents will be informative and interesting for all child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists as well as for school psychologists and counsellors.
"The purpose of this study is to examine the clinical significance and effect size of three multi-component treatments for social phobia in adolescent population. Fifty-nine adolescents who met the DSM-IV (APA, 1994) criteria for generalized social phobia were assigned to three experimental treatments (N=44) or a control condition (N=15). Assessments were conducted at pretest, posttest and after a 12- month follow-up. Assessment measures included a broad range of scales to evaluate maladaptation, social skills, public speech, and self-esteem as well as cognitive and avoidance symptoms of social anxiety. Short-term and long-term results do support the effectiveness of the treatments in contrast with the control condition according to high and very high effect sizes obtained. Furthermore, the outcomes based on clinical significance also show significant changes in contrast to control condition."
Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth
among many others. The book is also testament to those adult social anxiety and phobia researchers who have contributed so much to the foundation of childhood assessment and treatment technologies in this area, including
Social Anxiety in Adolescents: Prevalance and Morbidity
Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2019
Objective: To explore the prevalence of “social anxiety” among adolescent student of Pakistani students. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Psychology, University of Gujrat, from 10th Oct 2017 to 30th Mar 2018. Methodology: The 716 adolescent students (344 male & 372 females) were assessed through Pakistani version of the scale initially developed by La Greca and Lopez in 1989 to measure social anxiety titled “Social Anxiety Scale– Adolescents”. Results: There was high prevalence of anxiety in adolescents as 22.5% of sample scored high on the SAS-A. No marked gender differences were observed on variable of interest. However, when analyzed for morbidity of social anxiety across early, middle and late adolescent groups it was observed that relatively less number of students in late adolescents scored high as 21.16% on social anxiety as compared to early 21.43% and middleadolescents 25.5%. Among high scorers in middle adolescents there was t...
Anxiety, fears, phobias, and related problems: Intervention and resources for school aged youth
PsycEXTRA Dataset
Adolescents may be shy, avoid usual pursuits, fear separation from friends, and be reluctant to engage in new experiences. Risk-taking behaviors, such as experimentation with drugs or impulsive sexual behavior, may be seen. Clinicians should attempt to identify any potential stressful events that may have precipitated the anxiety symptoms (...). Difficulty falling asleep, frequent night awakenings, tantrums and aggressiveness, and excessive napping may reflect anxiety.
Journal of Affective Disorders, 2020
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Treatment of social anxiety in adolescents
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 1995
This paper describes a new cognitive behavioral group treatment program for social phobia in adolescents (CBGT-A). Based upon empirically validated methods of treating shy adolescents and adults with social phobia, CBGT-A was developed to meet the needs of adolescents with social phobia between the ages of 13 and 17. In this paper, the diagnosis and phenomenology of social phobia is described, with emphasis on the expression of the disorder in youth. Comorbid conditions and behavioral concomitants unique to adolescents are described, so that clinicians may attend to the particular presentation of the disorder in this population. The CBGT-A program is described in detail and illustrated with case examples. Attention is given to the role of parents in the treatment process. Potential obstacles to successful treatment are defined and suggestions for managing these difficult clinical situations are offered.
Indian journal of psychiatry, 2004
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is a chronic, disabling and treatable disorder with common onset in adolescence. Virtually there are no Indian studies on SAD. The study was conducted to find out frequency, demographic and phenomenological characteristics of SAD, family related risk factors, academic impairment and comorbidity of depression among adolescents. 421 adolescents in one high-school were screened for SAD and depression and associated factors with academic impairment. 54 (12.8%) had SAD. The most common manifestation of SAD was avoiding giving speeches. SAD was equally common among both genders, was associated with difficulty in coping with studies, concern about weight, having less friends, lack of intimacy with parents, and being treated differently from siblings. In conclusion, SAD is a common adolescent disorder, with major depression as a comorbidity and associated with impairment in academic functioning. All adolescents especially with depression consulting medical prof...