Managing Social Anxiety (Third Edition): Therapist Guide
Managing Social Anxiety – A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach comes in two volumes. This page is for the Therapist Guide. Click on the following link to access the Client Workbook.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for social anxiety. It is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE, 2013). The Managing Social Anxiety: Therapist Guide (Third Edition) is written by Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg, and Cynthia L. Turk, and provides therapists with all the tools they need to deliver effective, evidence-based psychological treatment for social anxiety. Part of the Treatments That Work™ series, the step-by-step approach is easy for beginning therapists to implement and offers many practical recommendations to help clients successfully engage with the treatment.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Psychoeducation: Background on Social Anxiety and Its Treatment
Chapter 2: Psychoeducation: Understanding the Nature of Social Anxiety and How to Manage It
Chapter 3: Psychoeducation: Etiology of Social Anxiety and Beginning to Monitor Progress
Chapter 4: The Fear and Avoidance Hierarchy
Chapter 5: Cognitive Restructuring: Learning About Cognitive Biases and Identifying Automatic Thoughts
Chapter 6: Cognitive Restructuring: Challenging Automatic Thoughts
Chapter 7: Exposure and Cognitive Restructuring: First Exposure
Chapter 8: Exposure and Cognitive Restructuring: Ongoing Exposure
Chapter 9: Additional Tools for Challenging Automatic Thoughts
Chapter 10: Exposure and Cognitive Restructuring: Conversation Fears
Chapter 11: Exposure and Cognitive Restructuring: Public Speaking Fears
Chapter 12: Advanced Cognitive Restructuring
Chapter 13: Termination
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References
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Introduction & Theoretical Background
Social anxiety is one of the most common anxiety disorders (Kessler et al., 2005), affecting approximately 7.5% of individuals (Fehm et al., 2008). Left untreated, social anxiety can be a chronic and debilitating condition that significantly impacts peoples’ lives (Morrison & Heimberg, 2013). Symptoms of social anxiety include feeling anxious or fearful in social situations such as interactions with people, performing in front of others, or being observed. In addition, people with social anxiety are often concerned about being negatively evaluated which leads them to avoid social situations or endure them with intense anxiety. Managing Social Anxiety is a comprehensive program to assist clinicians in delivering effective CBT for social anxiety. The program includes two books:
- Managing Social Anxiety: Therapist Guide details the step-by-step cognitive-behavioral treatment of social anxiety.
- Managing Social Anxiety: Workbook is the companion to this guide. It will help your patients to become active participants in
Therapist Guidance
Each Treatments That Work® title is published as part of a pair:
- Clients use the Workbooks which contain elements of psychoeducation, skills development, self-assessment quizzes, homework exercises, and record forms.
- Therapists use the Therapist Guides which contain step-by-step instructions for teaching clients skills and overcoming common difficulties.
The authors suggest that the most effective implementation of these exercises requires an understanding of the principles underlying the different procedures, and that mental health professionals should be familiar with the Managing Social Anxiety: Workbook as well as this therapist guide. Therapists with an active subscription to a Psychology Tools ‘Complete’ plan are licensed to use Treatments That Work® titles, and to download and share chapters with their clients.
References And Further Reading
- Canton, J., Scott, K. M., & Glue, P. (2012). Optimal treatment of social phobia: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 8, 203-215. DOI: 2147/NDT.S23317.
- Clarke, D. M., & Wells, A. (1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. In R. G. Heimberg, M. R. Liebowitz, D. A. Hope, & F. R. Schneier (Eds.), Social phobia: Diagnosis, assessment and treatment (pp. 69-93). Guilford Press.
- Fehm, L., Beesdo, K., Jacobi, F., & Fiedler, A. (2008). Social anxiety disorder above and below the diagnostic threshold: prevalence, comorbidity and impairment in the general population. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 43, 257-265. DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0299-4.
- Kessler, R. C., Chiu, W. T., Demler, O., & Walters, E. E. (2005). Prevalence, severity, and comorbidity of 12-month DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 617-627. DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.62.6.617.
- Mayo-Wilson, E., Dias, S., Mavranezouli, I., Kew, K., Clark, D. M., Ades, A. E., & Pilling, S. (2014). Psychological