Treatment of social phobia by exposure, cognitive restructuring, and homework assignments. 1985

R G Heimberg, and R E Becker, and K Goldfinger, and J A Vermilyea

Seven patients who experienced clinically significant anxiety in situations involving public speaking or heterosexual performance and who had received a DMS-III diagnosis of social phobia participated in a 14-week program of cognitive-behavioral treatment. Treatment was conducted in a group format and consisted of: imaginal exposure, in which patients visualized their own participation in phobic events; performance-based exposure, in which patients enacted simulated phobic situations during sessions; cognitive restructuring, in which patients' cognitions experienced during exposure situations were assessed and analyzed; and systematic homework assignments involving the confrontation of environmental events previously simulated in the group. Self-report, behavioral, and physiological measures of anxiety were collected weekly during baseline and treatment periods, and additional measures were collected before and after treatment. After treatment, most patients demonstrated significant gains, and improvements were maintained at 3-month and 6-month follow-ups.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007092 Imagination A new pattern of perceptual or ideational material derived from past experience. Imaginations
D008297 Male Males
D010555 Personality Inventory Check list, usually to be filled out by a person about himself, consisting of many statements about personal characteristics which the subject checks. Edwards Personal Preference Schedule,Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,Indicator, Myers-Briggs Type,Inventories, Personality,Inventory, Personality,Myers Briggs Type Indicator,Personality Inventories
D010698 Phobic Disorders Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognizes the fear as excessive or unreasonable. Claustrophobia,Neuroses, Phobic,Phobia, School,Phobias,Phobic Neuroses,Scolionophobia,Disorder, Phobic,Phobia,Phobic Disorder,School Phobia
D003071 Cognition Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism obtains knowledge. Cognitive Function,Cognitions,Cognitive Functions,Function, Cognitive,Functions, Cognitive
D005260 Female Females
D005500 Follow-Up Studies Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease. Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D001007 Anxiety Feelings or emotions of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster but not disabling as with ANXIETY DISORDERS. Angst,Anxiousness,Hypervigilance,Nervousness,Social Anxiety,Anxieties, Social,Anxiety, Social,Social Anxieties

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