
Social Anxiety
Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives
- 4th Edition - September 25, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Patricia M. DiBartolo, Stefan G. Hofmann
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 1 4 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 1 4 7 - 8
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 shy… Read more

- 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
Clinical practitioner psychologists treating anxiety disorders, clinical researcher psychologists studying anxiety disorders .Graduate courses on Anxiety
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
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: September 25, 2025
- Language: English
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