etiological models of social anxiety disorder

recently, tremendous studies have been made on psychopathology and treatment of social anxiety disorder. according these studies, several models of etiology have been developed for sad. some concepts that studied include temperamental and genetic factors, environmental factors and learning experiences, social skill deficits, cognitive factors, cultural issues and evolutionary factors. etiological models based on different approaches were used above concepts for development and maintenance of social anxiety disorder. the current article reviewed etiological models of social anxiety disorder that presented until now. evaluation of these models and clinical implications of them are discussed. key words : social anxiety disorder, psychopathology, etiological models