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Telephone (and Local) Support Groups for Overcoming Social Anxiety
Published March 10, 2010, 12:21 am in Sphobia: Shyness, Social Anxiety, and Social Phobia Tags:
I have had success in overcoming much of my own social anxiety, thanks to the following--

I wanted to share a really great (and completely free nonprofit) resource-- Social Anxiety Anonymous has telephone conference call and a...


The relationship between anxiety disorders and suicide attempts: findings from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions
Published March 8, 2010, 6:00 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
Conclusion: Anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder and PTSD, are independently associated with suicide attempts. Clinicians need to assess suicidal behavior among patients presenting with anxiety problems. Depression and Anxiety 0:1-8, 2010. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. (Source: Depression and Anxiety)


Steps toward an evolutionary personality psychology: Individual differences in the social rank domain.
Published March 7, 2010, 11:00 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
A comprehensive evolutionary personality psychology can be developed by identifying individual differences within each of the evolved systems that regulate social behaviour. We developed a questionnaire measure of social rank style, defined as individual differences in preferred strategies for pursuing, defending, and, when necessary, relinquishing social rank. The 17-item Rank Style with Peers Questionnaire (RSPQ) comprises three nearly independent scales: dominant leadership, coalition-building, and ruthless self-advancement. A series of studies demonstrated that: (a) the RSPQ’s, factor structure is robust; (b) the three rank style variables are not redundant with the five-factor traits or adult attachment styles; (c) they are related in theoretically expected ways to adjustment outcom...


[Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Program for Alleviating the Symptoms of Social Anxiety in Adolescents.]
Published March 6, 2010, 11:14 am in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
CONCLUSION: Consistent with the literature of school based Cognitive-Behavioral Group Treatment (CBGT) programs for social anxiety, it was found that adolescents in the treatment group exhibited a significant decrease in social anxiety and related cognitive errors. PMID: 20204902 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Turkish Journal of Psychiatry)


An Evaluation of the Applicability of the Tripartite Constructs to Social Anxiety in Adolescents
Published March 6, 2010, 9:12 am in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
(Source: Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology)


Familial and temperamental risk factors for social anxiety disorder
Published March 3, 2010, 6:00 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common disorder that can lead to significant impairment. In this chapter, the author provides background on the disorder and reviews hypothesized familial and temperamental risk factors. In particular, it highlights the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Longitudinal Study of Children at Risk for Anxiety, now in its fifteenth year, and describes how this study has identified some factors that contribute to risk for SAD. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Source: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development)


Anxious solitude/withdrawal and anxiety disorders: Conceptualization, co-occurrence, and peer processes leading toward and away from disorder in childhood
Published March 3, 2010, 6:00 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
This chapter contains (1) an analysis of commonalities and differences in anxious solitude and social anxiety disorder, and a review of empirical investigations examining (2) correspondence among childhood anxious solitude and anxiety and mood diagnoses and (3) the relation between peer difficulties and temporal stability of anxious solitude and depressive symptoms. Findings support a diathesis-stress model in which anxious solitude forecasts symptoms of psychopathology primarily in the context of interpersonal stress. Additionally, evidence for individual and environmental factors which moderate risk for peer difficulties among anxious solitary children is reviewed. Implications for intervention are discussed. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Source: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Dev...


Parents, peers, and social withdrawal in childhood: A relationship perspective
Published March 3, 2010, 6:00 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
In this chapter, the authors review the history of the Waterloo Longitudinal Project (WLP), the first longitudinal study (1980-1992) dedicated to the study of social withdrawal, its correlates, and consequences. Theories underlying the WLP are described, as are its empirical findings. Recent research from other labs that has extended the findings of the original WLP is briefly described. The authors' research that draws on the findings of WLP are noted as well. An underlying theme in this work is that relationships (and interactions) with parents and friends can serve as protective or exacerbating factors in the developmental course of social withdrawal and its concomitants (including social anxiety). © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Source: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development)


Science Shows You Can Die of Boredom, Literally
Published March 3, 2010, 1:31 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
Monthly magazines from Reader's Digest to Cosmopolitan are inundated with tips on how to sleep better, find happiness, and weave seriously sexy hair. Taking nothing away from being happy and blowing your romantic partner's mind on valentine's day, there are few things as valuable as staying alive.Sometimes we fail to take life and death seriously. Think back to those painful days of calculus class in high school. Like the sounds of a banshee ripping out its entrails, you and your classmates probably screamed the same screams heard year after year - "I'm so bored, I could die!" And yet, did your calculus teacher care? Did they offer a hug or show the slightest empathy? Probably not. And what about the desperate pleas of innocent children on long, monotonous car rides. All children want is a...


Combined phenelzine and CBGT superior to either treatment alone for social anxiety disorder
Published March 2, 2010, 6:00 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
Source: Arch Gen Psychiatry Area: News The results of a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled trial have found that a combination of phenelzine and cognitive behavioural group therapy (CBGT) is superior to either treatment alone and to placebo for social anxiety disorder (SAD).   To investigate, researchers from two US academic centres randomised 128 adults with a primary DSM-IV diagnosis of SAD to CBGT (n=34), phenelzine sulphate (15-60mg/day; n=35), placebo (n=27), or combined CBGT plus phenelzine (15-60mg/day; n=32). The CBGT sessions took place weekly and were administered by two therapists in twelve 2.5-hour sessions to groups of 4 to 6 participants.   The primary outcome measures were Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale and Clinical Global Impression (CGI) scale s...


The effects of social support and coping on the relationship between social anxiety and eating disorders.
Published March 2, 2010, 2:22 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
Authors: Wonderlich-Tierney AL, Vander Wal JS The current study examined the hypotheses that social support and coping moderate and or mediate the relationship between a broad and a narrow form of social anxiety and eating disorder symptoms. One hundred sixty-nine female undergraduates at a private Midwestern university, completed measures of social support, coping, social anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that higher levels of social support are associated with a weaker association between social anxiety and eating disorder symptomatology. Low use of task- and avoidant-oriented (distraction) coping and increased use of emotion-oriented coping are associated with a stronger...


Multirater Congruence on the Social Skills Assessment of Children with Asperger Syndrome: Self, Mother, Father, and Teacher Ratings.
Published March 1, 2010, 6:00 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
This study aims to examine social skills through self-reports of children with AS (N = 21) and a matched group of typically developing peers, as well as reports from their mothers, fathers, and teachers. Results showed that children with AS had more social skills deficits according to all raters and that they reported more aggressiveness/antisocial behavior, more conceit/haughtiness, more loneliness/social anxiety, and less assertiveness than controls. The level of agreement between raters varied significantly, suggesting that social skills are best studied with multiple informants. PMID: 20195739 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)


The Psychiatric Sequelae of Traumatic Injury [Articles]
Published March 1, 2010, 4:05 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
Conclusions A significant range of psychiatric disorders occur after traumatic injury. The identification and treatment of a range of psychiatric disorders are important for optimal adaptation after traumatic injury. (Source: Am J Psychiatry)


A Placebo-Controlled Trial of Phenelzine, Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy, and Their Combination for Social Anxiety Disorder [Original Article]
Published March 1, 2010, 2:50 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
Conclusion  Combined phenelzine and CBGT treatment is superior to either treatment alone and to placebo on dimensional measures and on rates of response and remission. (Source: Archives of General Psychiatry)


A dimensional analysis of creativity and mental illness: Do anxiety and depression symptoms predict creative cognition, creative accomplishments, and creative self-concepts?
Published February 28, 2010, 11:00 pm in MedWorm: Social Anxiety Disorder Tags:
The link, if any, between creativity and mental illness is one of the most controversial topics in modern creativity research. The present research assessed the relationships between anxiety and depression symptom dimensions and several facets of creativity: divergent thinking, creative self-concepts, everyday creative behaviors, and creative accomplishments. Latent variable models estimated effect sizes and their confidence intervals. Overall, measures of anxiety, depression, and social anxiety predicted little variance in creativity. Few models explained more than 3% of the variance, and the effect sizes were small and inconsistent in direction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts)