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Anxiety Disorder Flow Chart
Criteria
Definition
Treatment ( Psychotherapy )
Treatment ( Pharmacotherapy )
Specify Types

Definition

Social Phobia ( Social Anxiety Disorder ) is a persistent fear, without apparent justification of social or performance situations. A person may feel that their behavior well be scrutinized by others, leading to embarrassment and a anxiety response in the form of a situationally bound or a situationally predisposed Panic Attack. 

ONSET:

COMMON: Mid-teens.
LESS COMMON: Emergence from social inhibition ( including shyness ) in childhood.

Diagnostic Criteria ( DSM-IV™ ) made easy.

NOT DUE TO A SUBSTANCE, GENERAL MEDICAL CONDITION, OR OTHER DISORDER.
SEE: CAUSING ANXIETY.

Persistent and marked fear of show the symptoms of anxiety, humiliating, or embarrassing ones self in a social or performance situation(s). There may be more then one social or performance situation that renders fear. Children will show anxiety in peer settings and not just then interacting with adults. 

Exposure to the social or performance situation(s) that is feared, can lead to embarrassment and a anxiety response in the form of a situationally bound or a situationally predisposed Panic Attack. In children the anxiety may be expressed it the form of crying, tantrums, freezing up, or clinging.

Recognize this fear is excessive or unreasonable, children may not recognize this.

The feared social or performance situation(s) may be avoid or endured with intense distress and interferes significantly with a persons normal daily routine. ( E.g., school, work, social activities, relationships )

If under 18 symptoms present of at least 6 months.

Specify Types

Generalized: Includes most social or performance situations.
SEE: Avoidant Personality Disorder.

Treatment ( Psychotherapy )

Desensitization

Adlerian Therapy
Behavior Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral Therapy
Existential Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Person-centered Therapy
Psychoanalytic
Rational-emotive Therapy
Reality Therapy
Transactional Analysis

Treatment ( Pharmacotherapy )

Inderal
Inderal-LA
Inderide [CD]
Inderide LA [CD]
Ipran
Paxil
Zoloft