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 …

Introduction Impairments in social functioning are associated with an array of adverse
outcomes. Social skills measures are commonly used by health professionals to assess and …

Cognitive–behavioural and metacognitive approaches to emotional disorder implicate
beliefs in social anxiety, but the types of beliefs differ across these perspectives. Cognitive …

Pre-event and post-event rumination have been consistently identified by cognitive models
as important maintaining factors in Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). This systematic review …

Self-compassion has been consistently linked to psychological well-being. This current
study explored whether (a) inducing self-compassion would result in reduced state anxiety …

Abstract Models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) and research indicate several cognitive
and behavioural maintaining factors that perpetuate social anxiety (ie, maladaptive social …

To advance research into social anxiety disorder (SAD) and provide efficacious treatments
for individuals with SAD, researchers and clinicians must have effective assessment …

Two repetitive thinking processes that have been proposed in prominent maintenance
models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) are anticipatory processing and post‐event …

Research on cognitive theories of social anxiety disorder (SAD) has identified individual
processes that influence this condition (eg, cognitive biases, repetitive negative thinking) …

Anticipatory processing, maladaptive attentional focus, and postevent processing are key
cognitive constructs implicated in the maintenance of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The …