A biopsychosocial model of social anxiety and substance use

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 276-284

  Buckner, Julia D ^a   Heimberg, Richard G ^b   Ecker, Anthony H ^a   Vinci, Christine ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; cannabis; marijuana; nicotine; review; social anxiety; social phobia; substance use disorders

Indexed keywords

CANNABIDIOL; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

AFFECT; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ALCOHOLISM; ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY; AROUSAL; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; FEAR; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84874949384     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.22032     Document Type: Review

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