Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder in Adults and Adolescents
prof. David Clark
University of Oxford
nummer
81
Opgenomen in sessies
Woensdag, 10.30 uur, Zaal 110
Tags doelgroep
Kinderen en adolescenten
Volwassenen
Tags thematiek en problematiek
Angststoornissen
Tags streams
Cognitieve (gedrags)therapie
Workshop
Social Anxiety Disorder is common and remarkably persistent in the absence of treatment. It typically starts in childhood or adolescence and frequently leads to occupational and education underachievement. Interpersonal relationships are impaired. Dissatisfaction with the way that life is progressing often triggers depressive episodes and there is a heightened risk of alcohol and drug abuse. A distinctive cognitive therapy programme based on the Clark & Wells model has strong empirical support and is recommended as a leading psychological intervention in various clinical guidelines. Randomised controlled trials in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Japan, and China have shown that this treatment is superior to exposure therapy, group CBT, interpersonal psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and medication.
The workshop provides a comprehensive practical guide to cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder, with both adults and adolescents. It starts with an overview of the cognitive model, focussing on its treatment implications. Each of the steps in treatment is then described and illustrated with case material and videos of treatment sessions. The key procedures include: deriving with patients an individualized cognitive model; demonstrating the adverse effects of self-focussed attention and safety behaviours through experiential exercises; video feedback and other procedures to correct excessively negative self-imagery; training in externally focussed, non-evaluation attention; behavioural experiments to test negative beliefs; and ways of dealing with socially relevant traumatic memories (discrimination training & memory re-scripting). Guidance on the use of the most appropriate measures for identifying therapy targets and monitoring progress throughout therapy is also provided.
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