Social Phobia: Assessment and Treatment of Social Skill

超出所提供的空间。来自国家共病研究的数据显示，社交恐惧症的终生患病率为13%，6个月患病率为8%。这些数字表明，社交恐惧症是最常见的焦虑症，也是普通人群中最常见的情绪障碍之一（仅次于药物滥用）。社交恐惧症的发病很早，似乎是一个长期而持续的过程。社交恐惧症患者有严重的情绪困扰、社交回避、更多地使用酒精和其他药物、更多地产生自杀意念和企图、未完成教育、社会、教育和职业不适应（包括丧失生产力）。在理解社交恐惧症的精神病理学上，一个突出的差距是这种障碍是否以社交技能缺陷为特征。现有的数据提供了不同的结果，但临床证据的重要性是，社交恐惧症患者缺乏社交技能，但确切的技能缺陷仍有待阐明。社交恐惧症患者是否缺乏社交技能，对如何进行社会心理治疗具有重要意义。从概念上讲，本应用程序中提出了两项研究。第一项研究旨在确定社交恐惧症是否表现出社交技能缺陷，阐明缺陷的本质，并确定泛化恐惧症是否比非泛化恐惧症（特定亚型）更有缺陷。为了将社交恐惧症患者的社交技能与正常人进行比较，将包括一个正常的对照组。此外，包括正常群体将允许产生规范，社交恐惧症的社交技能可以在未来的研究中进行比较。第二项研究旨在确定广义社交恐惧症的技能缺陷是否可以改善，以及社交技能的改善是否与整体社会功能的改善有关。网站性能 ======================================== 节结束 ===========================================

EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. Data from the National Comorbidity Study revealed the lifetime prevalence of social phobia to be 13% and the 6-month prevalence to be 8%. These figures indicate that social phobia is the most common anxiety disorder and one of the most common emotional disorders in the general population (second only to sustance abuse). Social phobia has an early onset and appears to follow a chronic and unremitting course. Social phobics suffer severe emotional distress, social avoidance, increased use of alcohol and other drugs, increased suicidal ideation and attempts, incomplete educational attainment, and social, educational and occupational maladjustment (including lost productivity). A prominent gap in understanding the psychopathology of social phobia is whether the disorder is characterized by deficits in social skills. Extant data have provided mixed findings, but the weight of the clinical evidence is that social phobics are deficient in social skills but the exact skill deficits remain to be elucidated. Whether or not social phobics are deficient in social skill has implications for how psychosocial treatment is carried out. Conceptually, there are two studies proposed in this application. The first study is designed to determine if social phobics manifest social skills deficits, explicate the nature of the deficiencies, and determine if the generalized are more deficient than the non-generalized (specific subtype). A normal comparison group will be included in order to allow for a comparison of social skills in social phobics to those of normals. Also, including the normal group will allow for the generation of norms to which the social skills of social phobics in future studies can be compared. The second study is designed to determine if skill deficits in generalized social phobics can be improved, and whether improvements in social skills are associated with improvements in overall social functioning. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================