Adolescence is a time of extensive neuroanatomical, functional, and chemical
reorganisation of the brain which parallels substantial maturational changes in cognition …

Social anxiety disorder represents a debilitating condition that has large adverse effects on
the quality of social connections, educational achievement and wellbeing. Age-of-onset data …

Background Mental health problems in children and young people are common and can
lead to poor long‐term outcomes. Despite the availability of effective psychological …

This chapter reports on the prevalence of social anxiety disorder (SAD) and social fears in
Western and non-Western countries, onset and course characteristics, mental and physical …

Objective: Test changes in (a) coping efficacy and (b) anxious self-talk as potential
mediators of treatment gains at 3-month follow-up in the Child/Adolescent Anxiety …

The cognitive theory of social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most widely accepted
accounts of the maintenance of the disorder in adults, yet it remains unknown if, or to what …

Background Two specific cognitive constructs that have been implicated in the development
and maintenance of anxiety symptoms are anxiety sensitivity and emotional reasoning, both …

Fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and fear of positive evaluation (FPE) are independently
associated with social anxiety symptoms in adolescence, though no study has tested these …

Social anxiety has been associated with abnormalities in cognitive processing in the
literature, manifesting as various cognitive biases. To what extent these biases interrupt …

While numerous studies suggest that emotion dysregulation is important in maintaining
social anxiety among adults, the role of emotion regulation in children and adolescents with …