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.
“ Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine. ” - Leo Tolstoy
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.
“You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
” - Miles Davis
Acute stress disorder
“The data is friendly.
” - Anon
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
“Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
” - Einstein
Specific phobias
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
” - Anon
Social anxiety disorder
“You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
” - Thomas Traherne
Panic disorder
