Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • 18 - Cognitive–behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders: model and current issues

  • from Section 3 - Understanding the causes of anxiety
  • Edited by Helen Blair Simpson, Columbia University, New York, Yuval Neria, Columbia University, New York, Roberto Lewis-Fernández, Columbia University, New York, Franklin Schneier, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    Anxiety Disorders
    Published online:
    10 November 2010
    Print publication:
    26 August 2010, pp 204-215

  • Summary

    This chapter assesses the relationship of social anxiety disorder (SAD) to trait phenomena of shyness, behavioral inhibition, and avoidant personality. It explores the concept that these constructs lie on a spectrum of socially anxious temperaments, and that these temperaments are essential and adaptive for group-living species. Finally, it considers evidence that the same temperamental features influence, to a variable extent, a much broader spectrum of psychopathology. Several key features of SAD are also considered defining features of personality traits and disorders, including early age of onset, chronic course, pervasive quality, and tendency to be experienced as ego-syntonic. The spectrum of social anxiety temperament also appears to be related to a much broader spectrum of associated psychopathology. SAD has been reported to be a pre-morbid risk factor for schizophrenia and a comorbid disorder in as many as 36% of outpatients with schizophrenia.