During my career which has spanned thirty eight years, during which I have provided clinical services to literally thousands of patients of all ages with social anxiety, I have discovered that the biggest source of confusion for sufferers is understanding how ingrained the problem becomes. Adding to this confusion are marketing efforts and promises from the behavioral therapies; especially cognitive behavioral therapy, which states it is the “golden standard for treatment” for social anxiety. This statement is based on a gross over-simplification of the problem! The clinical reality is that a treatment architecture which basically dismisses the importance of the emotion-physiology; relying only on cognition and behavior, will reach the point of diminishing returns for most social anxiety patients. The following article offers insight.
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About Jonathan Berent, L.C.S.W., A.C.S.W.
Jonathan Berent, L.C.S.W., A.C.S.W., is a psychotherapist who has been practicing since 1978. He has created the Berent Treatment Method for Social Anxiety, which is the result of his clinical work with thousands of individuals of all ages with social anxiety since 1978. He is the author of Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed, Beyond Shyness: How to Conquer Social Anxieties, and Social Anxiety: The Untold Story, which is an accredited course for mental health professionals in using the Berent Method to treat social anxiety... Read More
