LuisJoaquin Garcia-Lopez, Ph.D.
University of Jaen, Psychology, Faculty Member
- Associate Editor, Behavioral Psychology (JCR journal), APICSA, Faculty Memberadd
- Pediatric Psychology, Emotions (Social Psychology), Anxiety, Emotional intelligence, Anxiety Disorders, Anxiety Disorders (Languages and Linguistics), and 26 morePsychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Child and adolescent mental health, Social Anxiety, Childhood Social Anxiety, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Clinical Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Studies, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Anxiety disorders (Health Sciences), Adolescent Emotional Health and Behavior, Childhood Anxiety Disorders, Psycholinguistics, OCD treatment, Dissemination of Evidence Based Treatments, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Child Psychopathology, Parenting, Parent Child Relationships, Emotion, Psychopathology, Psychiatry, Sexual addictions, hypnosis, emdr, spirituality, relationships, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, mood disorders, dissociative disorders, sexual disorders, and Cognitive Psychologyedit
- My major scientific and scholar contributions are focused on: (a) designing a screening protocol to increase the numb... moreMy major scientific and scholar contributions are focused on: (a) designing a screening protocol to increase the number of clinically social anxious children and adolescents. It’s striking the number of children and adolescents who do not benefit from appropriate psychological or pharmacological treatments due to the lack of awareness and detection of internalized disorders such as anxiety by parents, teachers and commonly, even the same children and (b) designing and validating psychological tests, mostly developed in USA, for European population. It is clear that no treatment can be conducted if an appropriate assessment is conducted.
Along with my efforts to maximize the number of children with anxiety disorders who are detected and assessed, and so, can benefit from evidence-based interventions, my early career has been focused on developing and enhancing treatment protocols aimed at overcoming children’s social anxiety problems. If untreated, childhood social anxiety disorder is persistent and interfere with emotional, school/employment, familial lives. Given that psychological treatments exist and are proven to be effective, this should no longer be true. In order to palliate this situation, I have been working disseminating of evidence-based school interventions, working closely with school-policymakers.
Another interest I have been exploring is the role that ‘expressed emotion’ and 'emotional intelligence' play in treatment outcome for childhood social anxiety. More recently, I’ve become interested in the issues that surround clinical linguistics and psychology, including how corpus linguistics can provide insight and input to assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder. Research lines in progress are focused on RCT trial on MAGT, CBT and credible placebo for speaking anxiety, and a longitudinal study on Behavioral Inhibition.edit
Background Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders in adolescence. There is a need for brief screening tools to identify adolescents at risk for anxiety disorders. The Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 has been recently... more
Background Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders in adolescence. There is a need for brief screening tools to identify adolescents at risk for anxiety disorders. The Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 has been recently developed to assess youths' anxiety symptoms in terms of the current classification system. The goal of this study is to provide a first test of its psychometric properties in a community sample of adolescents in Spain. Methods The sample consisted of 505 13-to 17-year-old adolescents who completed Part I of the YAM-5 (YAM-5-I), which measures symptoms of the major anxiety disorders. Results Data indicated that the YAM-5-I displays appropriate internal consistency reliability. In addition, support was also found for the construct validity of the measure: most items loaded on a factor that represented the hypothesized anxiety syndromes, although it should also be noted that some items exhibited issues and therefore had to be discarded. Limitations Cross-cultural and trans-national studies are needed to determine psychometric properties of scale across languages and cultures. Conclusions Our findings suggest that the YAM-5-I has satisfactory psychometric properties, which indicates that it can be used as a screening tool in Spanish-speaking adolescents from the general population.
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Contemporary theories of social anxiety emphasize the role of cognitive processes. Although social anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental health problems in adolescents, there are very few self-report instruments available to... more
Contemporary theories of social anxiety emphasize the role of cognitive processes. Although social anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental health problems in adolescents, there are very few self-report instruments available to measure cognitive processes related to social anxiety in adolescents, let alone non-English instruments. The Self-Statements During Public Speaking Scale (SSPS; Hofmann & DiBartolo, 2000) is a brief self-report measure designed to assess self-statements related to public speaking, the most commonly feared social performance situation. In order to fill this gap in the literature, we translated the SSPS into Spanish and administered it to 1,694 adolescents from a community sample, a clinical sample composed of 71 subjects with a principal diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, and a clinical control group consisting of 154 patients. The scale showed good psychometric properties, supporting the use of the Spanish version of the SSPS in adolescents.
Social anxiety disorder is a highly prevalent psychiatric disorder, with elevated comorbidity rates with other mental health disorders and may cause severe negative consequences. In adolescence, there is a lack of research on how comorbid... more
Social anxiety disorder is a highly prevalent psychiatric disorder, with elevated comorbidity rates with other mental health disorders and may cause severe negative consequences. In adolescence, there is a lack of research on how comorbid disorders to social anxiety tends to form particular associations. With a large sample of adolescents with a clinical diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, data have revealed that certain disorders are more frequent and tend to dwell on concrete aggregates. Thus, it may be particularly useful and efficient for mental health providers, pediatricians and school counselors to screen for generalized anxiety disorder and specific phobia when assessing SAD in youth. Overall, findings stress the presence of comorbidity being the rule rather than the exception in adolescents with social anxiety disorder, and the need for further examination of its impact on assessment and differential diagnosis on this psychiatric disorder.
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It has recently been suggested that social anxiety disorder (SAD) entails a deficit in downregulating unwanted (even non-threatening) memories. In the present study we test this hypothesis by comparing a sample of young adults diagnosed... more
It has recently been suggested that social anxiety disorder (SAD) entails a deficit in downregulating unwanted (even non-threatening) memories. In the present study we test this hypothesis by comparing a sample of young adults diagnosed with SAD and healthy controls in their ability to resist proactive interference in a working memory task. Where participants performed similarly in the control condition of the memory task, participants with SAD were more susceptible to interference in the experimental condition than the healthy controls. This finding is in line with previous studies that show anxiety to be associated with impoverished executive control and, specifically, suggests that SAD entails a reduced ability to get rid of interfering memories. Clinical implications are discussed.
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Research Interests: Psychometrics, Personality, Social Anxiety, Personality Assessment, Adolescent, and 15 moreAnxiety, Spain, Humans, Female, Confirmatory factor analysis, Male, Psychometric Properties, Validity and Reliability, Questionnaires, Social Anxiety Disorder, Reproducibility of Results, European Continental Ancestry Group, ANXIETY, Factor structure, and Clinical Diagnosis
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Cited By (since 1996): 4, Export Date: 23 July 2012, Source: Scopus, CODEN: PCONF, Language of Original Document: Spanish, Correspondence Address: Olivares, J.; Dpto. de Personalidad, Facultad de Psicología, Campus Universitario de... more
Cited By (since 1996): 4, Export Date: 23 July 2012, Source: Scopus, CODEN: PCONF, Language of Original Document: Spanish, Correspondence Address: Olivares, J.; Dpto. de Personalidad, Facultad de Psicología, Campus Universitario de Espinardo, Apdo. 4021, 30080 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain; email: jorelx@um.es, References: Albano, A.M., Detweiler, M.E., Logsdon-Conradsen, S., Cognitive-behavioral interventions with socially phobic children (1999) Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families, pp. 255-280. , S. W. Russ T. H. Ollendick dirs. New York: Plenum;
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This article reviews the advances in epidemiology regarding social phobia. For this purpose, we will provide a summary of the data about the prevalence of social phobia according to DSM criteria (DSM-III, 1980; DSM-III-R, 1987; DSM- IV,... more
This article reviews the advances in epidemiology regarding social phobia. For this purpose, we will provide a summary of the data about the prevalence of social phobia according to DSM criteria (DSM-III, 1980; DSM-III-R, 1987; DSM- IV, 1994). Sociodemographic factors such as age of onset, gender distribution, marital, education and socioeconomic status will also be considered. Given social phobia is frequently associated with comorbid disorders, data will be presented on the comorbidity rates of social phobia and other anxiety disorders, mood disorders, alcohol/substance abuse as well as eating disorders. Finally, suggestions for future research on epidemiologic studies of social phobia will also be made.
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Cited By (since 1996): 3, Export Date: 23 July 2012, Source: Scopus, CODEN: PCONF, Language of Original Document: Spanish, Correspondence Address: García-López, L.-J.; Universidad de Granada, Dpto. de Personalidad, Evaluación y... more
Cited By (since 1996): 3, Export Date: 23 July 2012, Source: Scopus, CODEN: PCONF, Language of Original Document: Spanish, Correspondence Address: García-López, L.-J.; Universidad de Granada, Dpto. de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico, Facultad de Psicología, 18071 Granada, Spain; email: ljgarlo@cop.es, References: (1994) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Cuarta Edición), , Washington, DC: Author;
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the typology and profiles of abuse among equals both in person and on the Internet. Reference is made to the most relevant research, the most usual evaluation instruments, and proposals for the... more
The purpose of this paper is to examine the typology and profiles of abuse among equals both in person and on the Internet. Reference is made to the most relevant research, the most usual evaluation instruments, and proposals for the intervention and preventative action needed in each sector of the educational community. In addition, the challenges education professionals face in their work to fight against school harassment and bullying are noted, with particular attention to projects designed to counteract the problem and respond to these challenges. The special circumstances of the demands of cyber-bullying are analyzed and Moral Education is proposed as a way to achieve healthier educational spaces in the future that are free from harassment.
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Research Interests: Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Science, Positive Psychology, and 39 moreAnxiety Disorders, Child and adolescent mental health, Social Anxiety, Fear, Forecasting, Psychopathology, Childhood Social Anxiety, Child Psychological Assessment, Self Control, Treatment Outcome, Parent Involvement, Adolescent, Anxiety, Child Behavior, Humans, Child, Business and Management, Female, Cognitive Therapy, Male, Growth and development, Cognitive behavior therapy, Functional impairment, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Method, Interpersonal Relations, Mental health services, Children and Adolescents, Social phobia, Social Functioning, Social Anxiety Disorder, Positive Emotion, ANXIETY, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Clinical Presentation, Adolescent Behavior, Environment, Child Health Services, Nino, and Behaviour Therapy
Presentamos los resultados de un metaanálisis sobre la eficacia del tratamiento psicológico en los problemas de timidez y fobia social en niños y adolescentes. Se incluyen 15 artículos que cumplieron con los criterios de selección, dando... more
Presentamos los resultados de un metaanálisis sobre la eficacia del tratamiento psicológico en los problemas de timidez y fobia social en niños y adolescentes. Se incluyen 15 artículos que cumplieron con los criterios de selección, dando lugar a 24 estudios independientes. Los tamaños del efecto medio general, en el postest (d+ = 0,59) y en el seguimiento (d+ = 0,64), reflejaron la eficacia de las intervenciones para disminuir o eliminar la timidez o la fobia social, así como las respuestas de ansiedad, la desadaptación, la mejora de la autoestima y las habilidades sociales. Se hallaron diferencias significativas entre los diferentes componentes de tratamiento, destacando la combinación de exposición, habilidades sociales y técnicas cognitivas. Otras variables relevantes han sido la duración, frecuencia e intensidad del tratamiento, la edad y género de los participantes y la mortalidad y calidad experimental. Finalmente, discutimos los resultados y se proponen ciertas indicaciones p...
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Research Interests: Psychology, Group Therapy, Anxiety Disorders, Social Anxiety, Treatment Outcome, and 20 moreAdolescent, Group Psychotherapy, Anxiety, Spain, Social behavior, Humans, Behavior Therapy, Female, Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Male, Follow-up studies, Interpersonal Relations, Clinical Sciences, Social phobia, Adult, Social Anxiety Disorder, Controlled Clinical Trial, ANXIETY, and Social Behavior
Research Interests: Psychology, Anxiety Disorders, Assessment, Psychometrics, Social Anxiety, and 20 moreAdolescent, Anxiety, Spain, Social behavior, Humans, Business and Management, Female, Florida, Male, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Clinical Sciences, Sex Factors, Five Factor Model, Age Factors, Reproducibility of Results, ANXIETY, Social Behavior, Factor structure, Adolescent Behavior, and Age Groups
Objectives. Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is one of the most common mental disorders in adolescence. Many validated psychometric tools are available to diagnose individuals with SAD efficaciously. However, there is a demand for shortened... more
Objectives. Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is one of the most common mental disorders in adolescence. Many validated psychometric tools are available to diagnose individuals with SAD efficaciously. However, there is a demand for shortened self-report instruments that identify adolescents at risk of developing SAD. We validate the Mini-SPIN and its diagnostic efficiency in overcoming this problem in Spanish-speaking adolescents in Spain. Methods. The psychometric properties of the 3-item Mini-SPIN scale for adolescents were assessed in a community (study 1) and clinical sample (study 2). Results. Study 1 consisted of 573 adolescents, and found the Mini-SPIN to have appropriate internal consistency and high construct validity. Study 2 consisted of 354 adolescents (147 participants diagnosed with SAD and 207 healthy controls). Data revealed that the Mini-SPIN has good internal consistency, high construct validity and adequate diagnostic efficiency. Conclusions. Our findings suggest that the Mini-SPIN has good psychometric properties on clinical and healthy control adolescents and general population, which indicates that it can be used as a screening tool in Spanish-speaking adolescents. Cut-off scores are provided.
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No cut-off scores for the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief (SPAI-B) are available to screen for young adults with and without social anxiety disorder (SAD). In addition, there is a current heated debate on the utility of the... more
No cut-off scores for the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief (SPAI-B) are available to screen for young adults with and without social anxiety disorder (SAD). In addition, there is a current heated debate on the utility of the performance-only specifier in DSM-5. The present study is aimed at covering these gaps. Participants included 124 young adults in higher education with a clinical diagnosis of SAD and 81 healthy controls. The SPAI-B scores revealed a continuum of severity among the non-clinical population, performance-only specifier participants, and those with both performance and social interactional fears. Data demonstrated the SPAI-B is particularly useful as a screening measure among young adults in higher education, but the limited discriminative capacity of the performance-only specifier may call into question the clinical utility of this recently established specifier.
Research Interests: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Assessment, Child and adolescent mental health, and 10 moreSocial Anxiety, Childhood Social Anxiety, Child Clinical Psychology, Young People, Screening, Clinical Child Psychology, Pediatrics and Child Health, Social Anxiety Disorder, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and Mental Health of Children and Young People
Objective: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents is considerably under-detected and undertreated despite the availability of efficacious treatments. Our main study objective was to examine brief, valid, and reliable screening... more
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Social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents is considerably under-detected and undertreated despite the availability of efficacious treatments. Our main study objective was to examine brief, valid, and reliable screening measures for adolescent social anxiety, and to then to conduct diagnostic interviews to evaluate the measures’ ability to identify adolescents with SAD.
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We examined seven brief and valid social anxiety measures and compared their diagnostic accuracy with diagnoses established by a semi-structured interview. The sample included 421 Spanish adolescents with and 613 without a clinical diagnosis of SAD.
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Data revealed that short social anxiety measures are accurate in detecting Spanish-speaking socially anxious adolescents in Spain. All questionnaires showed good or excellent discriminating ability, with the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) and the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief (SPAI-B) having the best sensitivity and specificity values, respectively. Excellent areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves were found for most measures, except for the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (LSAS-CA) and the Mini-Social Phobia Inventory (MINI-SPIN), which had good discriminatory ability. There was little statistical difference in the ability of the brief social anxiety measures to identify cases accurately, although the SPAI-B cut-off score yielded the best balance between sensitivity and specificity and the highest Youden Index.
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Overall, results suggest that brief measures for social anxiety symptoms can be effective in detecting SAD in Spanish-speaking adolescents. Depending on the purpose of the study, SAS-A may be especially useful for reducing false negatives and the SPAI-B for false positives.
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents is considerably under-detected and undertreated despite the availability of efficacious treatments. Our main study objective was to examine brief, valid, and reliable screening measures for adolescent social anxiety, and to then to conduct diagnostic interviews to evaluate the measures’ ability to identify adolescents with SAD.
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We examined seven brief and valid social anxiety measures and compared their diagnostic accuracy with diagnoses established by a semi-structured interview. The sample included 421 Spanish adolescents with and 613 without a clinical diagnosis of SAD.
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Data revealed that short social anxiety measures are accurate in detecting Spanish-speaking socially anxious adolescents in Spain. All questionnaires showed good or excellent discriminating ability, with the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) and the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief (SPAI-B) having the best sensitivity and specificity values, respectively. Excellent areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves were found for most measures, except for the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (LSAS-CA) and the Mini-Social Phobia Inventory (MINI-SPIN), which had good discriminatory ability. There was little statistical difference in the ability of the brief social anxiety measures to identify cases accurately, although the SPAI-B cut-off score yielded the best balance between sensitivity and specificity and the highest Youden Index.
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Overall, results suggest that brief measures for social anxiety symptoms can be effective in detecting SAD in Spanish-speaking adolescents. Depending on the purpose of the study, SAS-A may be especially useful for reducing false negatives and the SPAI-B for false positives.
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This volume brings together research into diverse aspects of social anxiety and its clinical form, social phobia, in adolescents. Development of the condition, clinical manifestations and treatment strategies are all addressed, with... more
This volume brings together research into diverse aspects of social anxiety and its clinical form, social phobia, in adolescents. Development of the condition, clinical manifestations and treatment strategies are all addressed, with emphasis on ways in which adolescent development and context are reflected in the manifestation and treatment of symptoms. The book is divided into three parts that review epidemiological, neurobiological and sociopsychological research on vulnerability factors, examine the phenomenology and assessment of social anxiety and phobia in different developmental contexts and discuss evidence-based prevention and treatment options for adolescent social anxiety and phobia. Social Anxiety and Phobia in Adolescents will be informative and interesting for all child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists as well as for school psychologists and counsellors.
Research Interests: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Child and adolescent mental health, Mental Health, and 10 moreSocial Anxiety, Adolescent Emotional Health and Behavior, Childhood Social Anxiety, Child Clinical Psychology, Clinical Child Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Child and Adolescent Anxiety, Clinical Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology
This article describes the psychometric properties of the Social Phobia andAnxiety Inventory-Brief form (SPAI-B) in college young adults and examines thefeasibility of the Internet administration. Study 1 included 310 college students.The... more
This article describes the psychometric properties of the Social Phobia andAnxiety Inventory-Brief form (SPAI-B) in college young adults and examines thefeasibility of the Internet administration. Study 1 included 310 college students.The SPAI-B, the Brief Version of the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE), andthe Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) were administered. Results supported the original unidimensional structure of the SPAI-B, its internal consis-tency (0.89-0.94), and the concurrent validity, paired with BFNE (0.60) and nega-tive affect (0.47). Women had significantly higher scores than men in the SPAI-B.For study 2, 76 college students completed the SPAI-B and the Trait Meta-MoodScale-24 Scale via Internet administration. Results indicated that the online admi-nistration was equivalent to traditional paper-and-pencil measure, showing similarfactor structure, internal consistency (0.92) and mean scores. Taken together, thefindings of studies 1 and 2 provide initial support for the reliability and validity ofthe SPAI-B for the assessment of social anxiety in college young adults.
Research Interests: Psychology, Psychiatry, Anxiety Disorders, Assessment, Psychometrics, and 9 moreChild and adolescent mental health, Measurement and Evaluation, Internet Measurement, Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Educational measurement/assessment, The Internet, Test Validity, Psychological and Educational Testing, and Assessment and Measurement
Highlights • Benefit of parental involvement in therapy when parents exhibit high expressed emotion (EE). • Addition of parent training improves child's symptom reduction and diagnosis remission. • At follow-up, adolescents’... more
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• Benefit of parental involvement in therapy when parents exhibit high expressed emotion (EE).
• Addition of parent training improves child's symptom reduction and diagnosis remission.
• At follow-up, adolescents’ treatment outcomes were maintained.
• Parents’ EE status changed from high to low after receiving parent training.
. Decrease in parental EE level had further impact on the child's improvement.
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The role that parents’ involvement may play in improving their child's social anxiety is still under debate. This paper aimed to investigate whether training parents with high expressed emotion (EE) could improve outcomes for adolescent social anxiety intervention. Fifty-two socially anxious adolescents (aged 13–18 years), whose parents exhibited high levels of expressed emotion, were assigned to either (a) a school-based intervention with an added parent training component, or (b) a school-based program focused solely on intervening with the adolescent (no parental involvement). Post-treatment and 12-month follow-up findings showed that school-based intervention with parent training was superior to the adolescent-specific program, yielding significant reductions in diagnosis remission, social and depressive symptomatology, particularly when the EE status of parents changed. Overall, the findings suggest that high-EE parents of children with social anxiety need to be involved in their child's therapy.
• Benefit of parental involvement in therapy when parents exhibit high expressed emotion (EE).
• Addition of parent training improves child's symptom reduction and diagnosis remission.
• At follow-up, adolescents’ treatment outcomes were maintained.
• Parents’ EE status changed from high to low after receiving parent training.
. Decrease in parental EE level had further impact on the child's improvement.
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The role that parents’ involvement may play in improving their child's social anxiety is still under debate. This paper aimed to investigate whether training parents with high expressed emotion (EE) could improve outcomes for adolescent social anxiety intervention. Fifty-two socially anxious adolescents (aged 13–18 years), whose parents exhibited high levels of expressed emotion, were assigned to either (a) a school-based intervention with an added parent training component, or (b) a school-based program focused solely on intervening with the adolescent (no parental involvement). Post-treatment and 12-month follow-up findings showed that school-based intervention with parent training was superior to the adolescent-specific program, yielding significant reductions in diagnosis remission, social and depressive symptomatology, particularly when the EE status of parents changed. Overall, the findings suggest that high-EE parents of children with social anxiety need to be involved in their child's therapy.
Research Interests: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Community Psychology, Emotion, Psychiatry, and 48 moreAnxiety Disorders, Child and adolescent mental health, Emotional intelligence, Mental Health, Social Anxiety, Community-Based Mental Health Services, Parenting, Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, School Psychology, Training, Childhood Social Anxiety, Public Speaking, Parent Involvement, Emotional Intelligence (Psychology), Parental Behavior, Parent Child Relationships, Transcultural Psychiatry, School effectiveness and school improvement, Response to Intervention, Patient reported outcome measures, Psychiatry and Psychopathology, RCTs, Mental Illness, Anxiety, Emotions, Psychological Treatment, Emociones y afectos, Randomized Controlled Trials, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Parenting Styles, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Salud Mental, Parent Training Programs, Randomized Trial, Regulacion Emocional, Expressed Emotions, Families expressed emotions and influence on children and adolescents, Parental rearing styles, Trainign and Education, Parents, Community psychology prevention mental health promotion, Emoções, Child and Adolescent Anxiety, Emociones, Clinical Psychiatry, Educación Emocional, Competencias Emocionales, and Randomized Clinical Trial
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Research Interests: Mental Health, Social Anxiety, Public Speaking, Psychological Treatment, How to to be a successful public speaker, and 5 morePresentation Skills, Public Speaking, Social phobia, Academic communication skills for undergraduate and graduate students; public speaking (speechwriting), Oral Public Speaking, and Public Speaking Anxiety
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Research Interests: Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Anxiety Disorders, Child and adolescent mental health, and 14 moreSocial Anxiety, Pediatric Psychology, Treatment, Childhood Social Anxiety, Public Speaking, Child Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Anxiety, Psychological Treatment, Phobias, Psychological Interventions, Clinical & Abnormal Psychology, Social phobia, and Psychiatry and Psychopatology
Research Interests: Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Anxiety Disorders, and 19 moreChild and adolescent mental health, Mental Health, Social Anxiety, Pediatric Psychology, Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, Childhood Social Anxiety, Child Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Anxiety, Psychological Treatment, Phobias, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychological Interventions, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Salud Mental, Clinical & Abnormal Psychology, Social phobia, Child and Adolescent Anxiety, and Psychiatry and Psychopatology
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Research Interests: Psychology, Psychiatry, Anxiety Disorders, Assessment, Internet Studies, and 12 morePsychometrics, Child and adolescent mental health, Social Anxiety, Measurement and Evaluation, Internet Measurement, Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Educational measurement/assessment, Test, Test Validity, Students Attitudes, Psychological and Educational Testing, and Assessment and Measurement
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As a field, we have made significant progress over the past decade in the study and treatment of childhood anxiety disorders. If one were to closely examine this literature, several particular areas point to this fact....
Research Interests: Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Psychology, and 16 moreSocial Psychology, Psychiatry, Anxiety Disorders, Child and adolescent mental health, Mental Health, Pediatric Psychology, Psychopathology, Childhood Anxiety Disorders, Dissemination of Evidence Based Treatments, Adolescence (Psychology), Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Phobias, Clinical & Abnormal Psychology, Childhood Anxiety, Pediatric, and Child Clinical Psychology x
Tras examinar detenidamente a la literatura, hay distintos elementos que nos permiten hacer aseverar que en la última década se ha constatado un progreso significativo en el estudio y tratamiento de los trastornos de ansiedad en población... more
Tras examinar detenidamente a la literatura, hay distintos elementos que nos permiten hacer aseverar que en la última década se ha constatado un progreso significativo en el estudio y tratamiento de los trastornos de ansiedad en población infanto-juvenil. En primer lugar...
Research Interests: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychiatry, Anxiety Disorders, Child and adolescent mental health, and 6 moreMental Health, Childhood Anxiety Disorders, Dissemination of Evidence Based Treatments, Child Clinical Psychology, Adolescence (Psychology), and Psychiatry and Psychopathology
"The reviews of recent literature in the field reveal a significant growth in the number of research studies on social anxiety disorder (SAD) in children and adolescents. However, there is a lack of information and on-going debates on... more
"The reviews of recent literature in the field reveal a significant growth in
the number of research studies on social anxiety disorder (SAD) in children and
adolescents. However, there is a lack of information and on-going debates on
different issues related to this disorder. This paper presents a look ahead toward
critical steps to extend our knowledge and improve the understanding of this
disorder. In particular, this paper reviews the nature of social anxiety symptoms
as well as etiological explanations for the disorder. Additionally, the issue of
evidence-based assessment and treatment of SAD is discussed, with a particular
focus on cognitive-behavioral interventions. We conclude with a discussion of
future directions for the field."
the number of research studies on social anxiety disorder (SAD) in children and
adolescents. However, there is a lack of information and on-going debates on
different issues related to this disorder. This paper presents a look ahead toward
critical steps to extend our knowledge and improve the understanding of this
disorder. In particular, this paper reviews the nature of social anxiety symptoms
as well as etiological explanations for the disorder. Additionally, the issue of
evidence-based assessment and treatment of SAD is discussed, with a particular
focus on cognitive-behavioral interventions. We conclude with a discussion of
future directions for the field."
Research Interests: Christianity, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychiatry, and 18 moreEducation, Anxiety Disorders, Child and adolescent mental health, Mental Health, Social Anxiety, History of Psychiatry, Justice, Dissemination of Evidence Based Treatments, Natural Science, Creative thinking, Adolescence (Psychology), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Jesus Christ, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Child Clinical Psychology x, Religious Cults, Ancient Celtic Faith, and After Mayan End Times
"Psychological abuse is receiving increased attention focusing on its severe effects for the individual and for society as a whole. Despite the considerable amount of research, there is a lack of information on the role that... more
"Psychological abuse is receiving increased attention focusing on its severe effects for the individual and for society as a whole. Despite the considerable amount of research, there is a lack of information on the role that psychopathology may play in the etiology, development and maintenance of the abuse. As can be seen in other papers in this special issue, there is scattered information regarding the potential role of anxiety disorders, and particularly the social anxiety disorder. To fill this gap, this paper reviews the state-of-art including studies examining or including the relationship between social anxiety and topics such as sexual abuse, couple abuse, bullying and mobbing, also covered in this special issue. Overall, findings indicate a strong correlation between social anxiety and vulnerability to psychological abuse, particularly to bullying and mobbing.
El abuso psicológico es una de las problemáticas que se encuentran desafortunadamente en vigencia y cuyas consecuencias negativas son nefastas para el individuo en particular y la sociedad en general. Aunque existe una considerable cantidad de información e investigación sobre este tema, aún se desconocen factores de riesgo a nivel de psicopatología. Como se ha observado en los artículos que preceden a éste, existen algunos indicios acerca del papel que puede estar jugando algunos trastornos de ansiedad y, más concretamente, el trastorno de ansiedad social, en el origen, desarrollo y mantenimiento del abuso. Como resultado, en este trabajo revisaremos aquellos estudios que han mostrado la relación entre presencia de ansiedad social y abuso sexual, abuso en la pareja, abuso escolar (bullying) y acoso laboral (mobbing), siguiendo, asimismo, el orden de los trabajos presentados en este monográfico. En general, los datos señalan que existe un cuerpo de evidencia que señala una fuerte correlación positiva entre ansiedad social y vulnerabilidad frente al abuso psicológico, en concreto con el abuso escolar y el acoso laboral."
El abuso psicológico es una de las problemáticas que se encuentran desafortunadamente en vigencia y cuyas consecuencias negativas son nefastas para el individuo en particular y la sociedad en general. Aunque existe una considerable cantidad de información e investigación sobre este tema, aún se desconocen factores de riesgo a nivel de psicopatología. Como se ha observado en los artículos que preceden a éste, existen algunos indicios acerca del papel que puede estar jugando algunos trastornos de ansiedad y, más concretamente, el trastorno de ansiedad social, en el origen, desarrollo y mantenimiento del abuso. Como resultado, en este trabajo revisaremos aquellos estudios que han mostrado la relación entre presencia de ansiedad social y abuso sexual, abuso en la pareja, abuso escolar (bullying) y acoso laboral (mobbing), siguiendo, asimismo, el orden de los trabajos presentados en este monográfico. En general, los datos señalan que existe un cuerpo de evidencia que señala una fuerte correlación positiva entre ansiedad social y vulnerabilidad frente al abuso psicológico, en concreto con el abuso escolar y el acoso laboral."
Research Interests: Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, and 14 moreAnxiety Disorders, Child abuse and neglect, Child and adolescent mental health, Mental Health, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Cross-Cultural Studies, Psychopathology, Bullying, School Bullying, Child Abuse, Cyber Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Child Clinical Psychology x, and School Bullying and Cyberbullying Among Adolescents
Although social phobia is one of the most common mental disorders in adolescents, information on the need for normative data is missing. For this reason, this cross-sectional study aims at determining if there is a need to have normative... more
Although social phobia is one of the most common mental disorders in adolescents, information on the need for normative data is missing. For this reason, this cross-sectional study aims at determining if there is a need to have normative data according to age and gender in socially anxious adolescents. Furthermore, this study analyzes if boys and girls differ in the nature of their social fears. The study population comprised 2,543 Spanish-speaking adolescents randomly recruited from 10 schools. The results point out that there is no need for different normative data based on age and gender. Moreover, our data indicate that even though there are quantitative differences between boys and girls, i.e. the girls reporting a higher percentage, a qualitative analysis reveals that boys and girls experience the same social fears and, therefore, the nature of the social anxiety-provoking situations is the same across gender. Implications for developmental theories and assessment are discussed.