Managing Social Anxiety (Third Edition): Workbook
Managing Social Anxiety – A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach comes in two volumes. This page is for the Workbook. Click on the following link to access the Therapist Guide.
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: Workbook (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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Chapter 1: The Invitation: Are You Ready to Begin the Journey to Overcome Social Anxiety?
Chapter 2: Starting Our Journey Together From the Same Place: Understanding Social Anxiety
Chapter 3: The Origins of Social Anxiety
Chapter 4: Plotting the Road Map for Our Journey: Gathering information on the Situations That Are Difficult for (But Important to) You
Chapter 5: Identifying the Thoughts That Cause Anxiety
Chapter 6: Tools to Challenge Your Automatic Thoughts
Chapter 7: Getting Into The Pool: The First Exposure Session
Chapter 8: Settling Into the Journey: The Ongoing Routine of In-Session and Homework Exposures
Chapter 9: Additional Tools for Challenging Your Automatic Thoughts
Chapter 10: Everything Starts With Small Talk
Chapter 11: Public Speaking
Chapter 12: Advanced Cognitive Restructuring: Addressing Core Beliefs
Chapter 13: Getting Ready to Continue the Journey on Your Own: Consolidating Gains and Finishing Treatment
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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 is the companion to this workbook. It details the step-by-step cognitive-behavioural treatment of social anxiety.
- Managing Social Anxiety: Workbook. It will help your patients to become active
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.
Although written for the client, the exercises in the workbook are intended to be carried out under the supervision of a mental health professional. 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 both the Managing Social Anxiety: Therapist Guide as well as this workbook.
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