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- Social anxiety diorder
- Diabling fears of one or more specific social situations
- Fear or exposure to scutiny and potantial negative evaluation
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- Performace subtype (ie: public speaking)
- Non-permormance or general social phobia (ie: urinating in public restrooms or eating/writing in public situations)
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| Prevalence, Age of Onset, and Gender Differences |
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Definition
- Very common mental disorder
- Lifetime prevalence ~12%
- 60% of sufferers are women
- Typically begins in adolescence or early adulthood
- 2/3 or 66.6% suffer comorbidly with anxiety or depression
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| Psychological Causal Factors |
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Definition
- Learned bahvior and classical conditioning (direct and vicarious)
- Evolutionary factors (innate yielding mechanisms for surviving dominance hierarchies)
- Uncontrollable and unpredictable stressors (family conflict, spousal adultry, sexual abuse)
- Cognitive biases (Thoughts about being to anxious/nervous around people, negative biases about how others percieve you)
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| Biological Causal Factors |
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- Inhibited temperament or behavioral inhibition (shares characteristics of both neuroticism and introversion)
- Modest amount of genetic contribution
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Definition
- Conitive restucturing techniques
- Exposure therapy
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Medications (Anti-depressant and beta-blockers)
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