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. 2020 Jul 16;13:e30. doi: 10.1017/S1754470X2000032X

Table 1.

Core components of remotely delivered CT-SAD outlined in this paper

CT-SAD treatment components
Treatment components typically used with all patients:
1. Collaboratively developing a personalised cognitive model of their social anxiety
2. An experiential exercise to demonstrate the adverse effects of self-focused attention and safety behaviours (the ‘self-focused attention and safety behaviours experiment’)
3. Video and still photograph feedback to correct negative self-imagery
4. Attention training to practise focusing externally
5. Behavioural experiments to test negative beliefs by dropping safety behaviours and focusing attention externally in social situations or purposefully displaying feared behaviours or signs of anxiety (decatastrophising)
6. Developing a therapy blueprint
Treatment components used as required:
7. Surveys to loosen beliefs alongside behavioural experiments
8. Using virtual audiences to gain confidence in public speaking and test specific beliefs
9. Addressing anticipatory worry and post-event rumination
10. Memory work (discrimination training and memory re-scripting) to reduce the impact of early socially traumatic experiences
11. Additional techniques to address persistent unconditional beliefs and self-criticism