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ERIC Number: EJ732221
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Dec
Pages: 9
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-1096-4037
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Skills for Social and Academic Success: A School-Based Intervention for Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescents
Fisher, Paige H.; Masia-Warner, Carrie; Klein, Rachel G.
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, v7 n4 p241-249 Dec 2004
This paper describes Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS), a cognitive-behavioral, school-based intervention for adolescents with social anxiety disorder. Clinic-based treatment studies for socially anxious youth are reviewed, and a strong rationale for transporting empirically-based interventions into schools, such as SASS, is provided. The SASS program consists of 12, 40-min group sessions that emphasize social skills and in-vivo exposure. In addition to group sessions, students are seen individually at least twice and participate in 4 weekend social events with prosocial peers from their high schools. Meetings with teachers provide information about social anxiety and facilitate classroom exposures for socially anxious participants. Parents attend 2 psychoeducational meetings about social anxiety, its treatment, and approaches for managing their child's anxiety. Initial findings regarding the program's effectiveness are presented. We conclude by discussing the challenges involved in implementing treatment protocols in schools and provide suggestions to address these issues.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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