Broadening the research areas on social anxiety disorder

Junwen Chen, Sarah L. Cox, Erica Crome, Yulisha Byrow

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    Abstract

    Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is a highly prevalent mental disorder with far reaching negative consequences for overall functioning and wellbeing. Once coined the neglected anxiety disorder, research on social anxiety in the past decade has greatly increased, however many questions still remain. This chapter outlines progress towards answering some of these outstanding issues, presenting recent developments in social anxiety research. This includes an exploration of dispositional factors (i.e., evaluation fears and self-discrepancies) and cognitive biases (i.e., decision-making; attentional bias) to symptom maintenance and treatment outcomes in clinical and non-clinical populations. In addition, neural activity in socially anxious and non-anxious individuals during cognitive reappraisal is presented. Finally, we examined potential barriers influencing treatment-seeking behaviours in social anxiety.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInovations & Future Direction in Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies
    EditorsRoss C Menzies, Michael Kyrios, Nikolads Kazantzis
    Place of PublicationSamford Valley Australia
    PublisherAustralian Academic Press
    Pages51-55
    Volume1
    ISBN (Print)9781922117717
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

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