Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common and impairing psychological
disorders. To advance our understanding of SAD, several researchers have put forth …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the original 1997 cognitive behavioral model
for social anxiety disorder (SAD), which delineates the processes by which SAIs are affected …

Research on social anxiety and social anxiety disorder has proliferated over the years since
the explication of the disorder through cognitive-behavioral models. This review highlights a …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common, distressing and persistent mental illness. Recent
studies have identified a number of psychological factors that could explain the maintenance …

Background Within maintenance models of social anxiety disorder (SAD), a number of
cognitive and behavioural factors that drive the persistence of SAD have been proposed …

Extant cognitive behavioral models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) have primarily focused
on cognitions and behaviors that maintain the disorder. Emotional aspects of SAD have …

Pioneering models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) underscored fear of negative evaluation
(FNE) as central in the disorder's development. Additional cognitive predictors have since …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD), or social phobia, is unique among the anxiety disorders in
that interpersonal dysfunction is a core feature of the condition. In this chapter, we analyze …

Cognitive-behavioral theorists have proposed that fear of negative evaluation is the core
feature of social anxiety [Clark, DM, & Wells, A.(1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. In …

Cognitive models of social phobia (social anxiety disorder) assume that individuals with
social phobia experience anxiety in social situations in part because they overestimate the …