Which choice BEST represents an application of exposure therapy to the effective treatment of social anxiety disorder?

a. challenging the client’s automatic thinking about social situations
b. having the client talk to a stranger despite experiencing anxiety while doing so
c. discussing the history of the client’s social fears
d. having the client write about times when she or he felt embarrassed


Ans: B

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