After years of debilitating social anxiety, a special tool changed my life
Since my job as a CNN writer requires being in constant communication with various kinds of people, many are shocked when I reveal that I've struggled with social anxiety for years. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How a CNN writer overcame social anxiety using a special therapy
Social anxiety is something CNN's Kristen Rogers knows all too well. She details how debilitating the disorder was from childhood to young adulthood, and how cognitive behavioral therapy is the special tool that helped her. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The role of parental overcontrol in the relationship between peer victimization, social threat cognitions, and social anxiety in school-age children - Fox JK, Ryan JL, Martin Burch J, Halpern LF.
Peer victimization has been associated with negative mental health outcomes in school-aged children, including social anxiety. It remains less clear how peer victimization influences children's thinking about social situations and how parenting behavior ma... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

The role of adverse childhood experiences and attachment styles in social anxiety disorder in adolescents - Derin S, Selman SB, Alyanak B, Soylu N.
BACKGROUND: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is one of the most common disorders of adolescence and results in marked impairments in social and academic/occupational activities that likely to persist into adulthood. Multiple etiological factors contribute to ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Social functioning and the presentation of anxiety in children on the autism spectrum: a multimethod, multiinformant analysis - Hunsche MC, Cervin M, Storch EA, Kendall PC, Wood JJ, Kerns CM.
Co-occurring anxiety in children on the autism spectrum is associated with greater social challenges, including poorer social skills and relationships, which may influence the severity and presentation of anxiety symptoms, particularly social anxiety. The ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Social anxiety disorder: associations with peer-liking, discrimination, and prejudicial feelings in early adolescent girls - Brookman R, Bird F, Harris CB, Grant KA.
Social anxiety can have an adverse effect on social connections, educational achievement, and wellbeing. However, the extent to which students stigmatize their peers with social anxiety disorder (SAD) in female educational settings remains unknown. This st... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Ethnic discrimination and alcohol-related problem severity among Hispanic/Latin drinkers: the role of social anxiety in the minority stress model - Buckner JD, Lewis EM, Shepherd JM, Zvolensky MJ.
INTRODUCTION: Hispanic/Latin individuals in the U.S. experience many health disparities, including worse alcohol-related outcomes. Thus, identifying psycho-sociocultural factors that may play a role in alcohol-related problems among these individuals is vi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 15, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Mobile phone addiction and depression: multiple mediating effects of social anxiety and attentional bias to negative emotional information - Hou J, Zhu Y, Fang X.
Depression is an important and widely studied measure of individual psychological and social adaptation. Previous studies have explored the mechanism of depression from various perspectives and found that addiction is a significant risk factor for the deve... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news

Social anxiety disorder with comorbid major depression - why fearful attachment style is relevant - Elling C, Forstner AJ, Seib-Pfeifer LE, M ücke M, Stahl J, Geiser F, Schumacher J, Conrad R.
Individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) often suffer from comorbid major depressive disorder (MDD), which goes along with increased clinical and functional impairment. There has been little research on underlying differences regarding childhood adve... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Positive peer perception, social anxiety and classroom social adjustment as risk factors in peer victimization: a multilevel study - Romera EM, Luque R, Ortega-Ruiz R, G ómez-Ortiz O, Camacho A.
OBJECTIVE: Individual risks factors of peer victimization have been widely identified in children and adolescents. However, little is known about how the classroom context may increase or decrease the frequency of victimization. The present short-term pros... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Association of problematic internet use with depression, impulsivity, anger, aggression, and social anxiety: Results of a national study among Lebanese adolescents - Haddad C, Malaeb D, Sacre H, Bou Khalil J, Khansa W, Al Hajj R, Kheir N, Saade S, Obeid S, Hallit S.
IMPORTANCE: Several studies conducted worldwide (mostly in Western countries) highlighted the negative effects of problematic internet use, particularly among adolescents aged 12 to 17, including depression, impulsivity, aggression, and social fear and avo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

PTSD symptomatology and social anxiety among retired army officers: mediating role of internalized shame - Shehzad G, Ahsan S, Abbasi S.
The present study was conducted to analyze the mediating role of internalized shame in the relationship between post traumatic stress disorder symptoms and social anxiety among retired army officers. A sample of 200 male retired army officers aged 45-75 ye... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Understanding somatic symptoms associated with South Korean adolescent suicidal ideation, depression, and social anxiety - Kim H, Richardson D, Solberg SV.
Korea's suicide rate has increased steadily in recent years and it has become the leading cause of death among Korean youth. This paper aims to propose suicide risk identification strategies for South Korean youth by identifying profiles of suicide risk al... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Racial discrimination and hazardous drinking among Black drinkers: the role of social anxiety in the minority stress model - Buckner JD, Glover NI, Shepherd JM, Zvolensky MJ.
OBJECTIVE: Black Americans who consume alcohol experience worse alcohol-related outcomes. Thus, identifying psycho-sociocultural factors that play a role in hazardous drinking among Black individuals is vital to informing prevention and treatment efforts t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Predictors of suicidal ideation in social anxiety disorder - evidence for the validity of the interpersonal theory of suicide - Chung ML, Forstner AJ, M ücke M, Geiser F, Schumacher J, Conrad R.
This study aims to identify covariates of suicidal ideation (SI) in a large sample of individuals diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (SAD). METHODS: In a cross-sectional design, 305 individuals (38.4 ±14.1 years, 59% female) with SA... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news