文档介绍：Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of
Social Phobia: New Advances
Jonathan D. Huppert, PhD*, Deborah A. Roth, PhD, and Edna B. Foa, PhD
Address occur [11,12,15]. Foa et al. [2•] and Foa and Kozak [15]
*Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, suggested that the core fear of patients with SP is rooted in
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es more than in their perception of the likelihood
Current Psychiatry Reports 2003, 5:289–296 of such negative es. Foa et al. [11] demonstrated
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Copyright © 2003 by Current Science Inc. that changes in catastrophic thoughts were strongly related
to changes in SP symptoms and a potential mediating
mechanism, whereas changes in probability were signifi-
Cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for social phobia is an
cantly less related to changes in symptoms.
effective treatment for many patients, but some patients do
Negative cognitions contribute to the maintenance of
not benefit from the treatments and many remain symptom-
SP in various ways. If patients with SP believe that they
atic. Therefore, researchers have been examining techniques
will perform badly, and that this behavior will lead to
that may improve treatment e. In this p