1Associate Professor of the Department Ñlinical Dsychology, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation
2Associate Professor, Head of the Department Ñlinical Dsychology, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation
3Professor of the Department General and Experimental Physics, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation
*Corresponding author Olga Salagakova Associate Professor of the Ñlinical Dsychology Department, Altai State University, av. Lenina, 61, 656049, Barnaul, Russian Federation Tel: +79069451680, E-mail: sagalak.ol@yahoo.com
Online published on 7 February, 2018.
Social anxiety disorder is a common mental disorder in Western Europe. It is therefore necessary to determine the specificity of mechanisms of disorders studied in different approaches.
The investigation is based on the theory of the analysis of the syndrome in pathopsychology associated with the study of social anxiety. We theoretically compared different conceptual models, define their effectiveness in diagnosis and practice of psychological intervention.
The authors demonstrated pathopsychological mechanisms related to SAD origin and development shows the effectiveness of pathopsychological approach in diagnostics and therapy. Analyzing the pathopsychological approach, we revealed that the key mechanisms, which cause SAD, are specific disturbances of target regulation of mental activity and mediation of anxiety during evaluation, changes in the “motive-goalmeans” system, social behavior aberrations and distortion of selectivity in mental activity. The comparative analysis revealed that maximum diagnostic and therapeutic efficacy is achieved during combined application of the models in the psychological practice. Along with specific features of each approach, all SAD models contain similar views on the most important mechanism of SAD development-specific partiality, selectivity of mental activity, cognitive and perceptual distortion, disturbance of the general focus of attention.
Based on our model pathopsychological it was formed mechanism of regulation of mental activity that will allow people with social anxiety disorder to adapt in society. We believe that this is necessary to form the individual goal-setting system and stabilize self-esteem, regardless of previous success \ failure.
SAD models, Social anxiety, Attention selectivity (vigilance), Attention self-focus, Pathopsychological model of social anxiety, mental disorder
