Social Psychodynamic Research

Information from the National Comorbidity Survey showed that social phobia is the third most common mental disorder with a lifetime prevalence of 13.3% (Kessler. 1994). Some people report an onset of social phobia in their mid-teens while others develop the disorder after a stressful or trauma produced experience. This disorder usually follows a chronic course that usually results in considerable impairments in vocal and social functioning ((Davidson, Hughes, George, & Blazer, 1993). There are a number of effective treatments for those suffering from social phobia. Some of these treatments are cognitive techniques, exposure treatments, and social skills training. Cognitive behavior therapy, used for treatment of social phobia, is a part of

In layman terms, a mediator is the generative mechanism thru which the independent variable is able to influence the dependent variable. Mediating variables, within the therapeutic process, must covary with variables indicating therapeutic change. This Article discusses the social phobia subtype and diagnosis centered on avoidant personality disorder (APD) as potential moderators of change in the treatment of social phobia. Psychologists have found that particular changes in cognitive schemata accounts for therapeutic change. With that being said, researchers in anxiety disorders believe that effective psychotherapy treatment directly modifies the patient’s irrational beliefs or, deactivates them while making other schemata

The benefit of this fact is that we can change the way we think to feel and act better even if our situation does not change. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is considered among the most rapid in terms of results obtained. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and your perception of the world around. This article explains that cognitive-behavioral therapy and exposure therapy go hand and hand together and is proven to be significantly effective when treating social phobia across the board. Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps to diminish the belief that negative social events are more likely to occur than positive social events associated with social phobia. The Cognitive-behavioral therapy accounts for the relation between the predictor and the criterion treatment of social phobia. As a patient is able to change the negative cognitions into positive adaptive reasoning associated with their avoidant personality disorder, patients are able to be more objective to the exposure therapy