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 |