Cm. Fink et al., CULTURALLY RELEVANT FACTORS IN THE BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT OF SOCIAL PHOBIA - A CASE-STUDY, Journal of anxiety disorders, 10(3), 1996, pp. 201-209
A chronic and severe social phobic African American female was treated
with social effectiveness therapy (SET) over a 4-month period of time
. The exposure treatment program included racially relevant cues in th
e imaginal material as well as in the in vivo settings. The patient ev
idenced considerable improvement at posttreatment on a number of measu
res, including achieving an endstate functioning status similar to tha
t of normals. These gains were maintained at a 4-month follow-up. The
findings are discussed in terms of the comprehensive treatment of soci
al phobia and the importance of sociocultural variables in treatment.