TY - JOUR
T1 - Skills for social and academic success
T2 - A school-based intervention for social anxiety disorder in adolescents
AU - Fisher, Paige H.
AU - Masia-Warner, Carrie
AU - Klein, Rachel G.
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Behavior therapy
KW - School intervention
KW - Social anxiety
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=13744251085&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10567-004-6088-7
DO - 10.1007/s10567-004-6088-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 15648278
AN - SCOPUS:13744251085
SN - 1096-4037
VL - 7
SP - 241
EP - 249
JO - Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
JF - Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
IS - 4
ER -