Social Phobia Group CBT Event
- Time:
- 09:30 - 16:30
- Date:
- 24 February 2012
- Venue:
- De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel, West Quay Road, Southampton SO15 1AG
For more information regarding this event, please telephone 02380 593578 or email cbtadmin@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
The approach to cognitive-behavioral group treatment developed by Dr. Heimberg will be overviewed along with its evidentiary base.
Social phobia is the most common anxiety disorder, associated with significant impairment in social, educational, and occupational functioning. However, it is often overlooked or noted only when a comorbid disorder, such as depression or a substance use disorder has developed. Despite a number of challenges, social phobia can be understood and treated from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, often with quite satisfying results. In this workshop, participants will learn about the nature of social phobia, a conceptual model of the disorder, and the empirical data on which the model is based.
Speaker information
Professsor Richard Heimberg,is currently Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Director of the Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S. He is Past President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and Past Editor of its flagship journal Behavior Therapy. In 2012, he will be President of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. Prof Heimberg is best known for his work on the development and evaluation of cognitive-behavioral treatments for social phobia and other anxiety disorders, publishing widely on this topic.