Social anxiety treatment studies
The following open access articles cover evaluations of cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder and descriptions of some of the specialised procedures involved in the treatment.
2025
2024
Sudden gains in internet cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder in routine clinical practice
2023
Cognitive and behavioural processes in adolescents with social anxiety disorder
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder
2022
Characterising negative mental imagery in adolescent social anxiety
Development and preliminary validation of the Child & Adolescent Social Cognitions Questionnaire
What do others think? The why, when and how of using surveys in CBT
2021
Cognitive predictors of adolescent social anxiety
Cognitive therapy compared with CBT for social anxiety disorder in adolescents: a feasibility study
Is concentration an indirect link between social anxiety and educational achievement in adolescents?
Safety behaviours in social anxiety: An examination across adolescence
2020
The effects of modifying mental imagery in adolescent social anxiety
Treating social anxiety disorder remotely with cognitive therapy
2019
Internet-based Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder in Hong Kong: Therapist Training and Dissemination Case Series (Description of the therapist training programme and preliminary evaluation of our internet version of cognitive therapy for SAD in Hong Kong)
2017
Seeing is believing- Using video feedback in cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (a guide to using video feedback. Includes a link to a demonstration of the technique)
2016
Cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder in adolescents: A developmental case series
2015
The cost effectiveness of psychological and pharmacological interventions for social anxiety disorder- a model based economic analysis (NICE’s cost effectiveness analysis of treatments for SAD)
2014
Psychological and pharmacological interventions for social anxiety disorder in adults- a systematic review and network meta-analysis (NICE’s network meta-analysis of treatments for SAD)
2013
Internet delivered cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder- A development pilot series (Description of the development and preliminary evaluation of our internet version of cognitive therapy for SAD)
2012
Treatment specific competence predicts outcome in cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (Description of the competency rating scale for CT-SAD and a demonstration that it predicts patient outcome)
2011
Imagery rescripting of early traumatic memories in social phobia (A guide to the use of imagery rescripting within cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder)
2010
An interpretative phenomenological perspective on cognitive therapy for social phobia (A qualitative analysis of patient’s experience with CT-SAD)
2008
Rescripting early memories linked to negative images in social phobia (Research paper on imagery rescripting within cognitive therapy for SAD)
2007
When the present visits the past: Updating traumatic memories in social phobia (Research paper on imagery rescripting within cognitive therapy for SAD)
Social anxiety basic research
2021
Is concentration an indirect link between social anxiety and educational achievement in adolescents?
Cognitive predictors of adolescent social anxiety
2020
Disrupted joint action accounts for reduced likability of socially anxious individuals
2019
Accessing social media: Help or hindrance for people with social anxiety?
Sub-types of safety behaviours and their effects on social anxiety disorder
2018
2016
Focusing attention on oneself increases the perception of being observed by others
2014
Faces in a crowd- high socially anxious individuals estimate that more people are looking at them than low socially anxious individuals (Experimental study of the origins of socially anxious individuals’ feeling that other people are staring at them)
2012
Socially anxious and confident men interact with a forward virtual woman- An experimental study (Exploration of virtual reality as an experimental paradigm for social anxiety disorders)
2008
Perception of arousal in social anxiety (Experimental study of the perception of arousal in social anxiety)
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