Cognitive Behavior Therapy is the Best Intervention for Social Anxiety Disorder

Mayo-Wilson and colleagues performed a meta-analysis across 41 interventions for patients with social anxiety disorder including cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, psychopharmacological therapy, and others. Based on the results from 101 clinical trials including over 13,000 participants, including various control groups, they concluded that cognitive-behavior therapy was best for most patients. For patients for whom cognitive-behavior therapy was not appropriate, they recommended psychopharmacological therapy as the next best treatment.

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