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A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the everyday.

\"Hector is a shy hedgehog and aims to help kids who may not want to venture out and try new activities for fear of making mistakes. It also highlights that friendships could be affected if a child keeps saying no to invitations from friends\"-- Provided by publisher.

Please download the article again for the corrected version. Citation: Wersebe H, Sijbrandij M, Cuijpers P (2013) Correction: Psychological Group-Treatments of Social Anxiety Disorder: A Meta-Analysis.

\"A shy girl who feels most at home in the school library gains the courage to extend herself to others when she encounters a group of unique, diverse, inspiring women at the diner where her mother works\"-- Provided by publisher.

The present study explored a complex model of the interplay between child shyness, maternal parenting practices, and parental beliefs about shyness in the prediction of indices of kindergarten socio-emotional functioning in mainland China. Participants were N = 883 children attending four kindergartens in Henan province (N = 373, Mage = 3.7 years, SD = 0.66 years; 51.6% boys) and eight kindergartens in Shanghai (N = 510, Mage = 4.4 years, SD = 0.91 years; 54.5% boys), People’s Republic of China. Multi-source assessments were employed, with mothers rating child shyness, as well as their own parenting practices and beliefs about shyness, and teachers assessing children’s socio-emotional adjustment in kindergarten. Results indicated that child shyness was indirectly associated with social-emotional difficulties via a mediated pathway through less adaptive parenting. Moreover, positive maternal beliefs about shyness served as a protective factor by reducing the magnitude of associations between child shyness and maladaptive parenting, as well as strengthening associations between child shyness and adaptive parenting. The findings underscore the importance of considering the meaning and implication of maternal beliefs about shyness and parenting in Chinese culture.HighlightsShyness was associated with social-emotional difficulties among Chinese preschoolers.Shyness was indirectly associated with social-emotional difficulties via a mediated pathway through adaptive parenting.Maternal beliefs about shyness could reduce the magnitude of associations between shyness and maladaptive parenting.Maternal beliefs about shyness could also strengthen associations between shyness and adaptive parenting.

Meet Lazybones! He isn't really lazy. In fact, he teaches his owner tricks all the time! He just doesn't like to go out. When he hears Dad call ... he hides! But one day Lazybones runs out of hiding places, and then he HAS to go on a walk. It's hard to try something new! But could it mean making a new friend too?

Background There is evidence that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a prevalent and disabling disorder. However, most of the available data on the epidemiology of this condition originate from high income countries in the West. The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative provides an opportunity to investigate the prevalence, course, impairment, socio-demographic correlates, comorbidity, and treatment of this condition across a range of high, middle, and low income countries in different geographic regions of the world, and to address the question of whether differences in SAD merely reflect differences in threshold for diagnosis. Methods Data from 28 community surveys in the WMH Survey Initiative, with 142,405 respondents, were analyzed. We assessed the 30-day, 12-month, and lifetime prevalence of SAD, age of onset, and severity of role impairment associated with SAD, across countries. In addition, we investigated socio-demographic correlates of SAD, comorbidity of SAD with other mental disorders, and treatment of SAD in the combined sample. Cross-tabulations were used to calculate prevalence, impairment, comorbidity, and treatment. Survival analysis was used to estimate age of onset, and logistic regression and survival analyses were used to examine socio-demographic correlates. Results SAD 30-day, 12-month, and lifetime prevalence estimates are 1.3, 2.4, and 4.0% across all countries. SAD prevalence rates are lowest in low/lower-middle income countries and in the African and Eastern Mediterranean regions, and highest in high income countries and in the Americas and the Western Pacific regions. Age of onset is early across the globe, and persistence is highest in upper-middle income countries, Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean. There are some differences in domains of severe role impairment by country income level and geographic region, but there are no significant differences across different income level and geographic region in the proportion of respondents with any severe role impairment. Also, across countries SAD is associated with specific socio-demographic features (younger age, female gender, unmarried status, lower education, and lower income) and with similar patterns of comorbidity. Treatment rates for those with any impairment are lowest in low/lower-middle income countries and highest in high income countries. Conclusions While differences in SAD prevalence across countries are apparent, we found a number of consistent patterns across the globe, including early age of onset, persistence, impairment in multiple domains, as well as characteristic socio-demographic correlates and associated psychiatric comorbidities. In addition, while there are some differences in the patterns of impairment associated with SAD across the globe, key similarities suggest that the threshold for diagnosis is similar regardless of country income levels or geographic location. Taken together, these cross-national data emphasize the international clinical and public health significance of SAD.

Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi would love to make friends, but her shyness is interpreted as reserve, and the other students keep her at a distance. Only timid Tadano realizes the truth, and despite his own desire to blend in, he decides to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends -- adapted from cover description.

Social anxiety disorder is a condition characterised by a marked and persistent fear of being humiliated or scrutinised by others. Age-of-onset data point to adolescence as a developmentally sensitive period for the emergence of the condition, at a time when the peer group becomes increasingly important. Social anxiety in adolescence is associated with considerable impairment that persists through to adulthood. There are clear potential benefits to delivering effective interventions during adolescence. However, there is limited evidence on the specific efficacy of available therapies. This is in contrast to adults, for whom we have interventions with very specific treatment effects. One such treatment is individual cognitive therapy. Cognitive therapy is based on the cognitive model of social anxiety proposed by Clark and Wells (in: Heimberg, Leibowitz, Hope, Scheiber (eds) Social phobia: diagnosis, assessment and treatment, The Guilford Press, New York, 1995). The present review examines the potential application of this adult cognitive model to the understanding of adolescent social anxiety and considers additional adolescent-specific factors that need to be accommodated. It is suggested that a developmentally sensitive adoption of the cognitive model of social anxiety disorder (Clark and Wells 1995) for adolescents may lead to better treatment outcomes.