School-based Treatment of Social Anxiety With Developmentally Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

Developmentally Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder is a 10-session, combined individual/group clinical intervention for treating social anxiety in adolescents. It consists of four individual and six group sessions during ten weeks. DOCT-SAD groups are formed for 4-6 adolescnts. One parent or both parents attend two of the individual sessions.

Standard Counseling (SC) is a intervention consisting of counseling sessions delivered by a school health and welfare (SHWS) professional (i.e., school nurse, school social worker, or school psychologist) to support a student with social anxiety. The defined length of intervention is ten weeks, and number of sessions will be according to what is routinely agreed between the professional and the adolescent. In SC, routine professional working methods and procedures available to the SHWS professional delivering the intervention are used.