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It is reported that the thesis section is available, to publish abstracts of postgraduate theses in the disciplinary field. Who submits your thesis, must present the title, abstract, key words (include Occupational Therapy), and a summary of 2 to 3 pages of your thesis. And `present it in Spanish, English and / or Portuguese.
Impact of social phobia in occupational performance’s areas
Abstract
Social phobia is included on the anxiety disorders group, with symptoms like: advance anguish, exposure anxiety and avoidance, in all social situations.
Considering symptoms of this disorder, research's hypothesis is social phobia affects patient's occupations and therefore performance's areas, wich strikes in a negative way on his or her life's quality.
The aims of the work are on the one hand to determine how there are altered the areas of occupational performance in persons by social phobia. In addition, one wants to establish also functions of the Occupational Therapist in the persons' treatment with this disorder. It is a question of an research of qualitative type using an interview semi constructed for the compilation of information and across the statement of history of life, axes of analysis decide to understand the impact of the Social Phobia.
