Psychiatry and Psychology

Social Phobia

Anxiety disorder characterized by the persistent and irrational fear, anxiety, or avoidance of social or performance situations.

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Abstract

Anxiety disorder characterized by the persistent and irrational fear, anxiety, or avoidance of social or performance situations.

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Synonyms

14 entry terms
  • Fear of Social Evaluation
  • Phobia, Social
  • Phobia, Social Evaluation
  • Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Social Evaluation Phobia
  • Sociophobia
  • Anxiety Disorder, Social
  • Disorder, Social Anxiety
  • Evaluation Fear, Social
  • Social Anxiety Disorders
  • Social Evaluation Fear
  • Social Evaluation Phobias
  • Social Phobias
  • Sociophobias

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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History Note

2017

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Previous Indexing

  • Phobic Disorders (1997-2016)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Social Phobia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000072861. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000072861
  2. Social Phobia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anxiety_disorder
  3. Social Phobia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281928