Kevin McKiernan
Contributor
Co-director of the Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Research, White Plains, New York. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Human Development (2006) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (1)
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), a type of anxiety disorder characterized by a fear of interacting with people, due to worries over the possibility of being negatively scrutinized and judged by them. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) was once referred to as social phobia; however, the label of “phobia,”…
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