Alkohol and family impairment

Abstract EN

A comparative study of 80 social phobic met the D.S.M.

III.R.

criteria and 80 control derived from same clinic population of similar socio-economic background suffering for anxiety disorders other than social phobia.

Only 20% of social phobic patients reported as inhibited, withdrawn childhood adjustment which does not give much support to the assumption of avoident disorder of childhood being the precursor of social phobia.

Significantly, more patients (p 0.001), then control reported problems with a severe, harsh, punitive father.

A similar perception was reported from a mother in less frequency but still significant compared to control.

A perceived traumatic life event to have precipitated a disorder was reported equally in patients and control, however, 9% of patients, reported sexual assaults traumas, compared to none in the control.