Overview
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Harold Leitenberg
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University of Vermont, Burlington, USA
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Overview
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- Peter Trower, Paul Gilbert, Georgina Sherling
Pages 11-45
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- Jonathan M. Cheek, Lisa A. Melchior
Pages 47-82
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Social Anxiety in Childhood: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives
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- Ross A. Thompson, Susan P. Limber
Pages 85-137
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- Mary K. Rothbart, Jennifer Alansky Mauro
Pages 139-160
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- Thomas H. Ollendick, Neville J. King
Pages 179-214
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Social Anxiety in Adulthood: Establishing Relationships
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Front Matter
Pages 215-215
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- Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg
Pages 217-246
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- Warren H. Jones, Jayne Rose, Daniel Russell
Pages 247-266
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Social Anxiety in Adulthood: Clinical Perspective
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Front Matter
Pages 267-267
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- Agnes Scholing, Paul M. G. Emmelkamp
Pages 269-324
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- Robert K. Heinssen Jr., Carol R. Glass
Pages 325-355
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- Timothy J. Bruce, David H. Barlow
Pages 357-384
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Evaluation Anxiety
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Front Matter
Pages 415-415
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- Ronald E. Smith, Frank L. Smoll
Pages 417-454
About this book
For a long time I have wanted to put together a book about sodal and evaluation anxiety. Sodal-evaluation anxiety seemed to be a stressful part of so many people's everyday experience. It also seemed to be apart of so many of the clinical problems that I worked with. Common terms that fit under this rubric include fears of rejection, humiliation, critidsm, embarrassment, ridicule, failure, and abandonment. Examples of sodal and evaluation anxiety include shyness; sodal inhibition; sodal timidity; public speaking anxiety; feelings of self-consdousness and awkwardness in sodal situations; test anxiety; perfor mance anxiety in sports, theater, dance, or music; shame; guilt; separation anx iety; sodal withdrawal; procrastination; and fear of job interviews or job evalua tions, of asking someone out, of not making a good impression, or of appearing stupid, foolish, or physically unattractive. In its extreme form, sodal anxiety is a behavior disorder in its own right sodal phobia. This involves not only feelings of anxiety but also avoidance and withdrawal from sodal situations in which scrutiny and negative evaluation are antidpated. Sodal-evaluation anxiety also plays a role in other clinical disorders. For example, people with agoraphobia are afraid of having a panic attack in public in part because they fear making a spectacle of themselves. Moreover, even their dominant terrors of going crazy or having a heart attack seem to reflect a central concern with sodal abandonment and isolation.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Vermont, Burlington, USA
Harold Leitenberg