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Social Anxiety

Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives

  • 4th Edition - September 20, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Patricia M. DiBartolo, Stefan G. Hofmann
  • Language: English

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Social Anxiety: Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive psychosocial view of social anxiety: what it is; how it is related to shyness, perfectionism, and similar phenomenon; why it develops; and how best to assess and treat it in its clinical manifestation. All chapters are fully updated and each section includes new, timely topics shaped by developments in the field and society. This volume focuses on psychosocial perspectives, including those from social, clinical, and developmental psychology, with strong coverage of the complex ways in which development and social ecology necessarily interact and inform our understanding of social anxiety and social anxiety disorder.

Key features

  • Covers perspectives from clinical, social, and developmental psychology  
  • Identifies a range of theoretical models for understanding social anxiety
  • Consolidates research findings on effective treatments for adults and youth with social anxiety disorder
  • Includes new chapters on culture, gender/sexuality, digital technology, and developmental psychopathology

Readership

Clinical practitioner psychologists treating anxiety disorders, clinical researcher psychologists studying anxiety disorders .Graduate courses on Anxiety 

Table of contents

Section 1. Delineation of Social Anxiety

1. Assessment of Social Anxiety and its Clinical Expressions

2. Shyness, Social Anxiety, and Social Anxiety Disorder: Comparing and Contrasting

3. Cultural Shaping of Social Anxiety

4. Social Anxiety, Gender, and Sexuality

5. Social Anxiety Disorder and its Relationship to Perfectionism

6. Is Social Anxiety Disorder Deficient in Social Skills?

7. The Development and Clinical Impact of Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents

Section 2. Theoretical Perspectives

8. A Developmental Psychopathology Model of Society Anxiety

9. Emotion-/Self-Regulation Models of Social Anxiety

10. Understanding Society Anxiety in Daily Life-How e-Diary Methods and Digital Phenotyping can Enhance Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Interventions

11. Social Anxiety as an Early Warning System: A Refinement and Extension of the Self-Presentation Model of Social Anxiety

12. Evolutionary Model of Social Anxiety

Section 3. Treatment Approaches

13. Updating the Self: A Mechanistic Roadmap for Effective Treatment of Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder

14. Youth Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 20, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

PD

Patricia M. DiBartolo

Associate Professor of Psychology Patricia M. DiBartolo works at Smith College in Northampton MA, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Psychology, Smith College, Northampton MA, USA

SH

Stefan G. Hofmann

Stefan G. Hofmann is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory at Boston University. Dr. Hofmann has served as President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy. His research focuses on the mechanism of treatment change, translating discoveries from neuroscience into clinical applications, emotions, and cultural expressions of psychopathology.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory, Boston University, MA, USA

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