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Social anxiety disorder is a highly complex, chronic, disabling, and costly anxiety disorder that requires effective treatment with empirical support. Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) shows great promise in effective treatment of social anxiety disorder. It is particularly suitable for the treatment of social anxiety disorder since pervasive emotional avoidance, difficulties with emotional differentiation, and high levels of self-criticism, which are central psychopathological processes in social anxiety disorder, are also primary therapeutic targets in EFT. Therefore, the present study aimed to review the new developments of emotion-oriented treatment for social anxiety disorder. In this systematic review study, a query was conducted on international and domestic databases from 2010 to 2024. To search, a combination of "emotionoriented therapy and social anxiety disorder," "emotion management and social anxiety disorder," "emotion regulation and social anxiety disorder," and "excitement and social anxiety" in both Farsi and English languages in Magiran, SID, IranDoc, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Springer, and PubMed databases were used. The search yielded 131 articles, of which 23 papers were included in the study according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The findings were analyzed in three areas: " emotion-focused therapy perspective on the etiology of social anxiety disorder," "change process in emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety and its relationship," and "effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety." As evidenced by the obtained results, EFT leads to corrective emotional experiences in social situations so that when people face social situations in which there is a possibility of being judged, they will not have unpleasant emotional experiences as before. Accordingly, they will have less negative thoughts and obtain more positive results from that event after facing a particular event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]