Treatment Of Avoidant Personality Disorder

Treatment of avoidant personality disorder can employ various techniques, such as social skills training, cognitive therapy, exposure treatment to gradually increase social contacts, group therapy for practicing social skills and drug therapy, sometimes. A key issue in the treatment and obtaining the patient's trust, since people with avoidant personality disorder often begin treatment sessions to avoid the suspicion of whether the therapist or fear rejection. The main goal of individual therapy and training of social skills group is for people with avoidant personality disorder to begin to challenge their negative beliefs about themselves exaggerated.