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Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions with Socially Phobic Children

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Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families

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Abstract

Social anxiety is a universal phenomenon that any individual can recall having experienced at repeated times during his or her life. If asked, most individuals can easily remember their most embarrassing moment, along with more minor social faux pas occurring more often than not. For many persons the physical and emotional discomfort experienced during such events are transitory and soon forgotten or later recalled with sidesplitting laughter. Unfortunately, a significant proportion of children and adolescents tend to experience social anxiety at extreme levels, on a continuous basis, with or without having any objective experience with an embarrassing event. For such individuals, everyday experiences such as attending school and interacting with peers are approached with painful anticipation of rejection, humiliation, embarrassment, and failure.

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  1. Child Study Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, 10016, USA

    Anne Marie Albano

  2. Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506, USA

    Michael F. Detweiler

  3. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322, USA

    Susan Logsdon-Conradsen

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Albano, A.M., Detweiler, M.F., Logsdon-Conradsen, S. (1999). Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions with Socially Phobic Children. In: Russ, S.W., Ollendick, T.H. (eds) Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4755-6_14

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