Note this list of resources has been updated ... see the "Good Knowledge" section's folder on "Social anxiety information & assessment". It is also worth clicking on "social anxiety" in the "Tag Cloud".
The "Improving Access to Psychological Therapies" (IAPT) initiative is very ambitious and exciting. It states its principal aim is to support English Primary Care Trusts in implementing "National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence" (NICE) guidelines for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders. IAPT go on to say that "At present, only a quarter of the 6 million people in the UK with these conditions are in treatment, with debilitating effects on society."
One aspect of this carefully planned initiative is strong encouragement to assess and monitor the progress of those who are getting help. Visiting the IAPT "Outcomes Toolkit and FAQ" web page provides access to several freely downloadable documents. The emphasis is on good assessment measures that are free to use. See below:
IAPT Outcomes Toolkit 2008/9 PDF - this 81 page 1.1Mb Adobe PDF is the September 08 version with amended IAPT Paper Based Data Set Questionnaires.
“ Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ” - Gandhi
Other anxiety disorders include Anxiety Disorders due to a General Medical Condition (where the anxiety is a direct physiological consequence of a general medical condition), Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder (where the anxiety is directly caused by the physiological effects of a substance - drug of abuse or medication - including prescription use, poisoning, intoxication, or withdrawal), and Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (where there is prominent clinically significant anxiety or phobic avoidance that doesn't meet the diagnostic criteria for any other anxiety or adjustment disorder).
Health anxiety disorder and hypochondriasis are typically classified under Somatoform disorders.
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
” - Elbert Hubbard
Acute stress disorder
“There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
” - Seneca
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Specific phobias
“ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes. ” - Marcel Proust
Social anxiety disorder
“From the place where we are right/Flowers will never grow/In the spring.
The place where we are right/Is hard and trampled/Like a yard.
But doubts and loves/Dig up the world/Like a mole, a plow/And a whisper will be heard in the place/Where the ruined/House once stood.
” - Yehuda Amichai
Panic disorder
