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Helping Adolescents with Social Phobia: A New Treatment Protocol to Empower them is Social Situations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M.C. Salvador  and
J. Pinto-Gouveia
M.C. Salvador
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Behavioural Studies and Intervention, Coimbra University, Faculty of Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal
J. Pinto-Gouveia
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Behavioural Studies and Intervention, Coimbra University, Faculty of Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal

Abstract

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Contrasting with the invalidation social phobia with an early beginning may have, research on cognitive-behavioural conceptualization and treatment in children and adolescents with social phobia is scarce.

In our presentation, we will propose a new treatment protocol for adolescents with social phobia, based on the most widely accepted conceptualization model of social phobia in adulthood - Clark & Wells, 1995 - taking into consideration idiosyncrasies in this age group, and also incorporating a positive and acceptant attitude towards themselves and their symptoms, and a curiosity attitude in the changing process. The aim is not only to overcome their social phobia but also to enable the adolescents with a positive view of themselves and of their strengths to empower them to overcome other difficulties and to promote their self-determination, in order to pursue their life-long projects and values.

Type
W10-02
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue S1: 17th EPA Congress - Lisbon, Portugal, January 2009, Abstract book , January 2009 , 24-E335
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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