CBT innovator and educator, Christine A. Padesky, PhD, discusses her experiences as a psychologist treating social anxiety and her view of best practices in social anxiety treatment with Robert Yeilding, PsyD, representative of NSAC Newport Beach/Orange County, and the Anxiety and Depression Center, Newport Beach, CA.
Dr. Padesky answers important questions including how her work in treating social anxiety has evolved over time, and provides an in-depth look at Assertive Defense of the Self, the protocol she developed for treating social anxiety. She is co-author of Mind Over Mood, 2nd edition (Greenberger & Padesky, 2016) and, in this interview, describes the anxiety chapters in the recently published Clinician’s Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood, 2nd edition (Padesky with Greenberger, 2020).