عوامل فرهنگی مرتبط در رفتاردرمانی هراس اجتماعی: مطالعه موردی

A chronic and severe social phobic African American female was treated with social effectiveness therapy (SET) over a 4-month period of time. The exposure treatment program included racially relevant cues in the imaginal material as well as in the in vivo settings. The patient evidenced considerable improvement at posttreatment on a number of measures, including achieving an endstate functioning status similar to that of normals. These gains were maintained at a 4-month follow-up. The findings are discussed in terms of the comprehensive treatment of social phobia and the importance of sociocultural variables in treatment.