Evaluation of a Smartphone Application for Self-help for Social Anxiety

The app provides a 12-week adaptation of scientifically proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques for the treatment of SAD and is intended for use as a mobile intervention. The app includes modules such as learning (e.g., creating a model, learning about the maintaining factors), changing the maintaining factors (e.g., safety behaviors), or behavioral experiments.

In addition to using the app, patients receive a total of 8 video-based therapy sessions over the course of 12 weeks. The sessions include topics such as video feedback and behavioral experiments.