Table of Contents

I. Overview.- 1. Social Anxiety, Evolution, and Self-Presentation.- 2. Shyness, Self-Esteem, and Self-Consciousness.- II. Social Anxiety in Childhood: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives.- 3. Social Anxiety in Infancy: Stranger and Separation Reactions.- 4. Temperament, Behavioral Inhibition, and Shyness in Childhood.- 5. Socially Withdrawn and Isolated Children.- 6. School Phobia and Separation Anxiety.- III. Social Anxiety in Adulthood: Establishing Relationships.- 7. Dating Anxiety.- 8. Loneliness and Social Anxiety.- IV. Social Anxiety in Adulthood: Clinical Perspective.- 9. Social Phobia: Nature and Treatment.- 10. Social Skills, Social Anxiety, and Cognitive Factors in Schizophrenia.- 11. The Nature and Role of Performance Anxiety in Sexual Dysfunction.- 12. Guilt, Shame, and Embarrassment: Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches.- 13. Sport Performance Anxiety.- 14. Speech Anxiety.- 15. Test Anxiety.- 16. Fear of Failure: The Psychodynamic, Need Achievement, Fear of Success, and Procrastination Models.