Explainer: what is exposure therapy and how can it treat social anxiety?
- Written by Michelle H Lim, Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology
Social anxiety is considered a disorder when people have an excessive fear of negative evaluation or judgement triggered by social or performance situations.Camila Paez/ShutterstockMost of us experience a level of social anxiety at some point in our lives. We worry about what people think of us, about being excluded, about being judged or...




