Social Phobia ( Social Anxiety Disorder )
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Anxiety Disorder Flow Chart Criteria Definition Treatment ( Psychotherapy ) Treatment ( Pharmacotherapy ) Specify Types
Definition
Social Phobia ( Social Anxiety Disorder ) is a persistent fear, without apparent justification of social or performance situations. A person may feel that their behavior well be scrutinized by others, leading to embarrassment and an anxiety response in the form of a situationally bound or a situationally predisposed Panic Attack.
ONSET:
COMMON: Mid-teens. LESS COMMON: Emergence from social inhibition ( including shyness ) in childhood.

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Diagnostic Criteria ( DSM-IVT ) made easy.
NOT DUE TO A SUBSTANCE, GENERAL MEDICAL CONDITION, OR OTHER DISORDER. SEE: CAUSING ANXIETY.
Persistent and marked fear of show the symptoms of anxiety, humiliating, or embarrassing ones self in a social or performance situation(s). There may be more then one social or performance situation that renders fear. Children will show anxiety in peer settings and not just then interacting with adults.
Exposure to the social or performance situation(s) that is feared, can lead to embarrassment and a anxiety response in the form of a situationally bound or a situationally predisposed Panic Attack. In children the anxiety may be expressed it the form of crying, tantrums, freezing up, or clinging.
Recognize this fear is excessive or unreasonable, children may not recognize this.
The feared social or performance situation(s) may be avoid or endured with intense distress and interferes significantly with a persons normal daily routine. ( E.g., school, work, social activities, relationships )
If under 18 symptoms present of at least 6 months.
Specify Types
Generalized: Includes most social or performance situations. SEE: Avoidant Personality Disorder.
Treatment ( Psychotherapy )
Desensitization
Adlerian Therapy Behavior Therapy Existential Therapy Gestalt Therapy Person-centered Therapy Psychoanalytic Rational-emotive Therapy Reality Therapy Transactional Analysis
Treatment ( Pharmacotherapy )
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