In authentic role-play scenarios, viewers are provided with vivid examples that illustrate how to use empirically supported treatments for social anxiety. In each scenario, a master therapist works with a client diagnosed with social anxiety. The vignettes demonstrate four evidence-based treatments for social anxiety: calming/coping strategies, cognitive restructuring, situation exposure, and social skill training. Each vignette is followed by a critique of the demonstration and helpful suggestions for clinical practice. The DVD opens with a discussion of social anxiety and diagnosing social anxiety. This is followed by an overview of empirically supported treatments for social anxiety with a strong emphasis on how to incorporate their primary objectives and interventions into the entire treatment plan. The six essential elements of a treatment plan are discussed in a tutorial section on how to create an effective and clear treatment plan that brings benefit to the client, the clinician, the agency, and the profession. Other common interventions related to social anxiety are also discussed including childhood abuse and criticism experiences, stage-of-change enhancement, reducing defensiveness, and anti-anxiety medication. In addition, common considerations in relapse prevention as are examined.

After you watch this DVD you should:

• Know the process and criteria for diagnosing social anxiety.
• Understand how empirically supported treatments for social anxiety have been identified, what treatment approaches have been designated as empirically supported, as well as objectives and interventions common to each identified treatment.
• Know common considerations in the prevention of relapse of social anxiety, as well as empirically supported relapse prevention programs for social anxiety.
• Know how to construct a treatment plan and empirically inform it with results from psychotherapy research.
• Appreciate the importance of therapeutic relationship factors in the delivery of an empirically informed treatment plan

Understanding and applying the information in this DVD will:

• Educate clinicians and administrators about well established empirically supported treatments for social anxiety
• Educate clinicians and students about how to construct a treatment plan and empirically inform it with results from psychotherapy research
• Maximize the likelihood of client improvement
• Satisfy funding sources—government, HMO, private insurance
• Enhance the confidence of the care provider
• Offer a clear direction for therapy without losing sight of therapeutic relationship factors

A corresponding workbook and facilitator''s guide—containing full transcripts of the vignettes, summaries of the key points covered in the DVD, and review questions—can be used in conjunction with the DVD as part of a self-paced learning tool or a team collaborative tool.