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Adrian Wells 2026-10-25
A clinical psychologist who developed the social anxiety model with David M. Clark. [ref]
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/adrian.wells. Manchester research profile: cognitive theory and emotional disorders
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. Psychology publisher author portrait. Source. Clark–Wells model of social anxiety disorder 2026-10-25
A cognitive account in which feared evaluation promotes self-focused attention and an internally generated threatening impression of the self. Safety behaviors can distort an interaction and prevent disconfirmation; anticipatory and post-event processing can maintain the threat. Developed by David M. Clark and Adrian Wells, the account generates separate experimental questions about attention, behaviour and interpretation. Adolescent applicability requires developmentally valid measures, rather than assuming an adult self-report vocabulary.[ref]
Understanding Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescents and Improving Treatment Outcomes: Applying the Cognitive Model of Clark and Wells (1995) by Eleanor Leigh and David M. Clark. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 21, 388–414; cognitive model and developmental qualifications