Do Social Threat Cognitions Decrease With School-Based CBT and Predict Treatment Outcome in Adolescents With Social Anxiety Disorder?
| Autor: | Julie L. Ryan, Jeremy K. Fox, Carrie Masia Warner, Sarah R. Lowe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050103 clinical psychology
media_common.quotation_subject Treatment outcome Experimental and Cognitive Psychology behavioral disciplines and activities 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Perception mental disorders medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences computer.programming_language media_common 05 social sciences Social anxiety Cognition 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Anxiety School based Social threat Sass medicine.symptom Psychology computer Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. 33:331-342 |
| ISSN: | 1938-887X 0889-8391 |
| Popis: | Evidence suggests that Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is less responsive to cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) compared to other anxiety disorders. Therefore, exploring what might facilitate clinical benefit is essential. Social threat cognitions, characterized by exaggerated perceptions of negative evaluation by others, may be one important avenue to examine. The current study investigated whether youths' social threat cognitions decreased with Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS), a group, school-based CBT designed for SAD, and whether decreases predicted SAD severity and treatment response. Participants included 138 high school students with SAD randomly assigned to SASS, or a nonspecific school counseling intervention. SASS participants showed significantly decreased social threat cognitions at 5-month follow-up. Treatment responders had significantly greater reductions in social threat cognitions compared to nonresponders at post-intervention and follow-up. These findings suggest that social threat cognitions may be important to assess and monitor when treating youth with SAD. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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