[Cognitive psychotherapy of social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder]

Recent years have seen a better understanding of the psychological changes underlying social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder, and successful methods of cognitive psychotherapy have been developed. Exposure to social situations causing anxiety and cognitive restructuring has diminished social anxiety. An underlying factor in generalized anxiety disorder is, among other things, a difficulty to deal with and tolerate uncertainty. Adaptation of distressing dysfunctional metacognitions has recently emerged alongside conventional cognitive-behavioral treatment modalities.