The National Social Anxiety Center (NSAC) hosted this hour-long clinical education webinar on November 15, 2024. Dr. Justin Weeks, PhD, shares information on fear of positive evaluation (FPE) as an important cognitive component of social anxiety disorder (SAD). Dr. Weeks also makes recommendations for adapting a cognitive-behavioral framework of FPE to broaden our conceptualization of SAD and tailoring CBT interventions to optimally and comprehensively address SAD patients’ socio-evaluative fears.
Justin Weeks, PhD is the Co-Director of the Anxiety Subspecialty Treatment program in the Department of Psychology at Nebraska Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the Lead of Psychology at Nebraska Medicine, the Track Director of the Anxiety Track of the Psychology Internship Program at Nebraska Medicine, and the Associate Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Nebraska Medicine. He is currently serving as the Guest Editor-in-Chief for a special issue of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders on fear of positive evaluation, which will be released in 2025, and he served as the Guest Editor-in-Chief for a special issue of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy on positivity impairments in social anxiety in 2012. Dr. Weeks is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and has authored over 75 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 3 book chapters, and more than 80 conference presentations and posters on social anxiety and related topics.
NOTICE:
Our workshops and webinars are offered as an educational resource for
mental health professionals who are already familiar with cognitive and behavioral therapies.
These resources alone do not suffice as adequate training
to conduct cognitive and behavioral therapies
for those with social anxiety and related problems.