TREATMENTS
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy(CBT)
CBT for social phobia is time-limited and present-focused and the goal of identifying and modifying distorted ideas supporting more adaptive behaviors.
CONTENTS
Difinition Causes
Symptoms Treatments
DIFINITION
• Social phobia is a subtype of phobia, formerly known as
phobic neurosis, which is a type of neurosis. Excessive and unreasonable fear of an external objective or situation as the main manifestation, the patient knows that this fear reaction is excessive or unreasonable, but it still appears repeatedly and is difficult to control. Fear attacks are often accompanied by obvious anxiety and autonomic symptoms. The patient tries to avoid the objective things or situations that cause fear, or endure with fear, thus affecting their normal activities.
• Psychosocial factors ：Researchers are also
looking for ways in which stress and environmental factors may play a role.
SYMPTOMS
TREATMENTS
Medication
• Beta blockers • Antidepressants • tranquillizers
The third largest mental health care problem
The age of 17-30
Lifetime prevalence from 7% to 13%
CAUSES
• Genetic fac
runs in families, but no one knows for sure why some people have it while others don't.
challenge negative thoughts use self-help leaflets and books
system desensitization
The first stage is to carry out relaxation training.
In the second phase, ask the patient to list the contexts that trigger social fears in order, and then start with the situation that causes the weakest fear response, let the patient be in it one by one, or imagine it. In these situations. At each step, the patient is adapted, feels completely relaxed, and then proceeds to the next more stressful situation until the strongest situation does not cause fear.