Smartphone applications for the treatment of depression and anxiety have acquired millions
of users, yet little is known about whether they include evidence-based therapeutic content …

The role of developmental theory and developmental psychopathology in understanding the
development, maintenance, and course of social anxiety disorder (SAD) is explored in this …

Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT (pronounced as a word rather than letters), is
an emerging psychotherapeutic technique first developed into a complete system in the …

The present study was designed to examine the operation of depression-specific biases in
the identification or labeling of facial expression of emotions. Participants diagnosed with …

I had two main goals when writing this book. The first was to provide a comprehensive
review of the factors that contribute to excessive fear and anxiety disorders. This …

Fifty children aged 7–14 years with a principal diagnosis of social phobia were randomly
assigned to either child-focused cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT), CBT plus parent …

We conducted a meta-analysis using all available controlled treatment outcome studies of
cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological treatments for social phobia (N= 24 studies, N …

Objective: To assess the dissemination of evidence-based content within smartphone apps
for depression and anxiety by developing and applying user-adjusted analysis—a method …

This paper reviews the current status of research on the phenomenology, etiology,
maintenance, assessment, and treatment of childhood and adolescent social anxiety …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also referred to as social phobia, is characterized by
persistent fear and avoidance of social situations due to fears of evaluation by others. SAD …