Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety Disorder and Specific Phobia

Phobias are the most common of the anxiety disorders and are among the most common of all mental disorders. The introduction of social phobia to the diagnostic nomenclature has led to a slow but steady increase in research on the disorder, so that social phobia has now become a popular topic of study among researchers on anxiety disorders. Social anxiety disorder and specific phobia have both overlapping and distinguishing diagnostic and …