Posts tagged with 'social anxiety'
New NICE guidance on the recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder (2nd post)
30th May 2013
I wrote an initial blog post yesterday on this month's new NICE guideline on "Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment". In today's post I would like to focus more on the guideline's very interesting treatment recommendations. Fascinatingly this NICE guidance comes down fair & square on the side of …
New NICE guidance on the recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder (1st post)
29th May 2013
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have just published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on "Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment". They state: "This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder in children and young people (from school …
The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: treatment
10th March 2013
I have recently written a couple of blog posts - "The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: introduction" and "The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: assessment". The posts were …
The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: assessment
8th March 2013
(Downloadable resources include an imagery assessment questionnaire available both as a PDF file and as a Word doc, a table to track changes during rescripting available as a PDF file and as a Word doc, a frequency/severity assessment scale also available both as a PDF file and as a Word …
The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: introduction
6th March 2013
A high percentage of chronic pain sufferers seem to be affected by recurrent imagery that is linked to and aggravates their pain. Often the imagery's occurrence only emerges with careful questioning. "Rescripting" these images is associated with impressive short term improvements in pain and distress. What's exciting is the potential …
Encouraging recent research on social anxiety: being embarrassed can lead you to be judged more, not less, positively by others
24th December 2011
There is a steady river of emerging new research on social anxiety. So earlier this year there was the paper "Social phobia and subtypes in the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement: Prevalence, correlates, and comorbidity" with its finding that, in a representative sample of over 10,000 US adolescents aged 13 to …
Particularly if you're socially anxious, try to stay task-focused rather than self-focused
17th December 2011
(This & last week's social anxiety blog posts are available as a PDF file or a Word doc - you may need to 'save' the latter before you can open it) "Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point" C. …
Fear of blushing is more a problem of hyperawareness than of facial temperature
10th December 2011
(This & next week's social anxiety blog posts are available as a PDF file or a Word doc - you may need to 'save' the latter before you can open it) "At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and …
CBT is better than interpersonal psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder
11th August 2011
Last month's posts "What shall we do about the fact that there are supershrinks and pseudoshrinks" and "Discussion on the Dodo assertion - all good depession treatments are equally effective" argued for the primacy of non-specific effects in psychotherapy. However in "Rolls Royce therapy and Anke Ehlers on PTSD" I …
New NICE guidance on common mental disorders: identification and pathways to care
26th May 2011
This month the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on "Common mental disorders: identification and pathways to care". The description reads "This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of adults who have common mental health disorders, with a …