Identifying and targeting idiosyncratic cognitive processes in group therapy for social phobia : the case of Vumile
- Edwards, David J A, Kannan, Swetha
- Authors: Edwards, David J A , Kannan, Swetha
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6244 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007859
- Description: “Vumile” was a patient in a cognitive therapy group that was designed for socially phobic African students and based on a therapy model developed by Clark and Wells. The case narrative shows how Vumile constructed a personal model of the factors maintaining his social phobia, and within the group and through homework challenged negative beliefs, reduced selfconsciousness and engaged in a range of previously avoided behaviors. A significant maintaining factor, spontaneous images of women looking at him with pity or mockery, was only identified in the last session. However, Vumile was able to use the skills he had learned to investigate this further and to correct these processes, which were distorting his experience of social interactions with women. Significant gains were made after the end of the formal treatment program and these are reflected in scores at follow-up on several self-report scales measuring anxiety, depression and various aspects of social phobic behavior and cognition.
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- Date Issued: 2006
- Authors: Edwards, David J A , Kannan, Swetha
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6244 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007859
- Description: “Vumile” was a patient in a cognitive therapy group that was designed for socially phobic African students and based on a therapy model developed by Clark and Wells. The case narrative shows how Vumile constructed a personal model of the factors maintaining his social phobia, and within the group and through homework challenged negative beliefs, reduced selfconsciousness and engaged in a range of previously avoided behaviors. A significant maintaining factor, spontaneous images of women looking at him with pity or mockery, was only identified in the last session. However, Vumile was able to use the skills he had learned to investigate this further and to correct these processes, which were distorting his experience of social interactions with women. Significant gains were made after the end of the formal treatment program and these are reflected in scores at follow-up on several self-report scales measuring anxiety, depression and various aspects of social phobic behavior and cognition.
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- Date Issued: 2006
Cognitive therapy for social phobia : the human face of cognitive science
- Edwards, David J A, Henwood, Jennifer, Kannan, Swetha
- Authors: Edwards, David J A , Henwood, Jennifer , Kannan, Swetha
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6280 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008281
- Description: [abstract from Index to SA Periodicals]Points to the male/masculine ideology pervading science. Gives a history of cognitive science. Shows that current clinical models on which cognitive therapy treatments are based are complex and detailed, but also situated and human. Warns about the contemporary enthusiasm for cognitive science. Presents a case study which illustrates how the cognitive model of social phobia works inpractice when applied to one person's life situation.
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- Date Issued: 2003
- Authors: Edwards, David J A , Henwood, Jennifer , Kannan, Swetha
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6280 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008281
- Description: [abstract from Index to SA Periodicals]Points to the male/masculine ideology pervading science. Gives a history of cognitive science. Shows that current clinical models on which cognitive therapy treatments are based are complex and detailed, but also situated and human. Warns about the contemporary enthusiasm for cognitive science. Presents a case study which illustrates how the cognitive model of social phobia works inpractice when applied to one person's life situation.
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- Date Issued: 2003
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