A cognitive-behavioral model of anxiety in social phobia

1997/08/01 by Ronald M. Rapee, Richard G. Heimberg · 3,001 citations
Psychology · #Anxiety #Anxiety disorder #Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Cognition #Developmental psychology #Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies #Phobic disorder #Psychiatry #Psychology #Social anxiety #Social inhibition

paper · doi:10.1016/s0005-7967(97)00022-3

published in Behaviour Research and Therapy 35(8), 741-756 (Elsevier BV)

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