Includes bibliographical references and index.

Symptomatology and diagnosis of social anxiety disorder / Robert M. Berman and Franklin R. Schneier -- The spectrum of social anxiety disorders / Jacqueline E. Muller, Liezl Koen, and Dan J. Stein -- Epidemiology of social anxiety disorder / Carlos Blanco, Carolina Garcia, and Michael R. Liebowitz -- Comorbidity in social anxiety disorder / Lydia Fehm and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen -- Burden of social anxiety disorder / David S. Baldwin and Christel Buis -- Diagnosis of social anxiety disorder in children / Tracy L. Morris -- Assessing social anxiety disorder with rating scales: practical utility for the clinician / Joshua D. Lipsitz and Michael R. Liebowitz -- Cross-cultural aspects of social anxiety disorder / Soraya Seedat and Toshihiko Nagata -- The role of environmental factors in social anxiety disorder / Borwin Bandelow, Aicha Charimo Torrente, and Eckart R�uther -- Cognitive theories of social phobia / Deborah A. Roth -- Animal models of social anxiety / Sanjay J. Mathew and Jeremy D. Coplan -- The promise of neurobiology in social anxiety disorder / Michael Van Ameringen and Catherine Mancini -- Genetics of social anxiety disorder and related trains / Murray B. Stein, Joel Gelernter, and Jordan W. Smoller -- Brain imaging studies in social anxiety disorder / Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder: a treatment review / Robert M. Holaway and Richard G. Heimberg.