Multidimensional Intervention for Social Anxiety (MISA) program: Therapist's guide

The book represents a novel approach to the treatment of social anxiety, which we have called Multidimensional Intervention for Social Anxiety (MISA program). This program combines traditional cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, such as cognitive restructuring, exposure, or social skills training, with processes of the so-called third generation therapies, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness or dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Thus, the MISA program includes the adaptation of part of these processes, such as values education, acceptance of emotions and sensations, detachment (defusion) of thoughts, focusing on the here and now, and acting in the opposite direction. The MISA program incorporates the "best of the best" to address social anxiety and the problems it causes for those who suffer from it. This book includes a detailed treatment protocol, session by session, with numerous exercises to facilitate its application to patients for all mental health professionals. The MISA program, with the corresponding adaptations, could also be used for the treatment of other psychological problems, especially depressive disorders, other anxiety disorders or borderline personality disorder. We also believe that it could be a program of choice for people who simply wish to increase their quality of life. Finally, we would like to point out that this "Therapist's Guide" is complemented by the "Patient's workbook", a fundamentally practical work, which will be of great help in therapy for both therapists and patients.