作者介紹
作者介紹 Larry Cohen, LICSW, A-CBT, is cofounder and chair of the National Social Anxiety Center (NSAC), an association of more than thirty regional clinics around the US dedicated to fostering evidence-based services to people struggling with social anxiety. He has directed the Social Anxiety Help clinic (NSAC District of Columbia) in Washington, DC, since 1990 where he has provided cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for more than 1,000 persons with social anxiety, and has conducted one hundred twenty-week social anxiety CBT groups. Cohen is certified as a diplomate in CBT by the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (ACBT), which has also conferred on him the status of fellow for having "made sustained outstanding contributions to the field of cognitive therapy." Foreword writer Richard Heimberg, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert on CBT for social anxiety disorder (SAD). He is the Thaddeus L. Bolton Professor Emeritus in the department of psychology and neuroscience at Temple University, where he founded and directed a specialty social anxiety clinic, and he was previously professor in the department of psychology at the University at Albany of the State University of New York.