**Lecture 4 - Social Anxiety

Question 1

What are the 3 interrelated anxiety systems?

Answer 1

• physical
• cognitive
• behavioural

Question 2

Cognitive Model of Social Phobia
Assumes…
(Clark and Wells, 1995)

Answer 2

That one has

• Excessively high standards
• Conditional beliefs about consequences
• Unconditional negative beliefs about the self

Question 3

Cognitive Model of Social Phobia
Safety behaviours…
(Clark and Wells, 1995)

Answer 3

• Increase self-focussed attention
• Increase anxiety symptoms
• Interfere with social performance
• Confirm social fears

Question 4

Cognitive Model of Social Phobia

Clark and Wells, 1995

Answer 4

Pre- / post-event processing p Increase / maintain anxiety

Question 5

Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder

Answer 5

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
1/ psychoeducation about maintaining factors
2/ cognitive challenging of negative thoughts
3/ behavioural experiments
4/ reducing safety behaviours
5/ attention training
6/ video feedback

> exposure tasks with cognitive rationale

• Often carried out in group settings
• About 2/3 achieve substantial improvement