Status of psychological treatments for Social Anxiety Disorder in children and adolescents: Umbrella Review.

Abstract

Social anxiety is an anxiety disorder characterized by a persistent fear of one or more social situations, in which the person fears being evaluated and ridiculed. This fear can affect work, school, and other daily activities. For this reason, a wide variety of treatments have been applied. Although treatments have mainly been developed for the adult population, there are different programs for the child and adolescent population. But at present there are a variety of treatments in the child and adolescent population. Therefore, our goal is to carry out an umbrella review that provide a summary of effective treatments for SAD in children and adolescents, show which treatment may be most useful in this type of population and finally provide guidelines for health professionals and researchers