Posted: December 28th, 2015

Social anxiety essay research

See Chapter 4 in your text on evaluating different types of research”) and (“You might want to check out your textbook (pp. 91–92)”)
Text is: Abnormal Psychology by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema 6th edition

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Mental disorder: Social anxiety disorder

Start off with a clear paraphrased DSM-5 criteria on social anxiety disorder

Then a literature review of empirical studies
1. look for
– treatment outcome studies: i.e., baseline assessment – treatment – post-treatment assessment – maybe follow-up period
– focus on studies using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) (because it is the recommended therapy by the NICE guidelines
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg159/chapter/1-Recommendations#interventions-for-adults-with-social-anxiety-disorder-2 )
– use general studies that look directly at how the tretament improve (or not) social anxiety or their quality of life, both immediately after treatment and in the longer terms (months/ years after)

2. make sure you do for each of the studies included
– a brief description of the studies
– evaluation of the study (strength and weakness of the design)
– is there any ethical issues using this particular design?
– how they have advanced the literature (i.e., what they have found)

3. included at least 6 studies in the literature review