Kayla has just started college and wants to make friends. She refuses to go to large parties because she is

afraid that she will blush and sweat, and that other people will laugh at her. She is fine talking to people in
one-on-one settings.

Kayla's most likely diagnosis is

A) agoraphobia without history of panic disorder.
B) social phobia.
C) generalized social phobia.
D) specific phobia, situational type.


B

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