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| Author | : Martin M Antony |
| Publisher | : Hogrefe Publishing GmbH |
| Total Pages | : 111 |
| Release | : 2008-01-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1616763116 |
Social anxiety is characterized by excessive anxiety or discomfort in situations where a person might feel judged or evaluated by others, including performance situations (e.g., being the center of attention, public speaking, working under observation, playing sports or music in front of an audience) and situations involving interpersonal contact with others (e.g., making small talk, meeting new people, dating). According to large-scale epidemiological studies, social phobia is one of the most prevalent psychological disorders. Although prevalence estimates vary, recent studies suggest that approximately 7% of Americans suffer from this disorder. In addition to the high percentage of people with symptoms meeting criteria for this disorder, many other individuals experience social anxiety or shyness to a lesser, but still impairing degree. Social phobia is also a common comorbid condition, often diagnosed along with other anxiety disorders. Taken together, this information suggests that practitioners are likely to encounter patients displaying some degree of social anxiety, no matter what specialty service or setting they occupy. Although social anxiety is a widely encountered problem, there are few resources available to provide straightforward, accessible assessment and treatment information for practitioners. This book aims to fill that gap. Over the past 20 years, effective tools have been developed to identify and treat individuals with social anxiety. The current book provides up-to-date information on the diagnosis, identification, conceptualization, and treatment of social anxiety and social phobia. This book is aimed at practitioners who practice in a broad range of settings, from specialty clinics to general practice, as well as students. Existing books tend to focus on the psychopathology of social anxiety, address multiple disorders in one volume, or provide extensive and detailed protocols for treating this disorder. In contrast, this book is a more concise guide to identification and treatment that is accessible for the busy practitioner. It focuses specifically on social phobia and social anxiety, making it an attractive reference book for professionals who require clear, easy to follow guidelines on treatments for social anxiety.
| Author | : Christopher Kearney |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2006-01-20 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0387225927 |
A great bene?t of being a clinical child psychologist is the opportunity to conduct and review research on fascinating areas of human, youthful behavior. And perhaps no behavior is as central to human existence as social behavior, and the lack thereof. In writing this book, therefore, I have been doubly blessed with the chance to examine seminal works on behaviors that are so critical to the development and quality of life of children. This book covers the major historical aspects, characteristics, asse- ment strategies, and psychological treatment techniques for youths with social anxiety and social phobia. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the related constructs and history of social phobia. Chapters 2 and 3 provide a summary of the characteristics and etiological variables that pertain most to youths with social anxiety and social phobia. Chapters 4 and 5 provide an overview of research- and clinically-based assessment strategies and recommendations for this population. Chapters 6–9 provide a description of treatment techniques that are most relevant and empirically supported for youths with social anxiety and social phobia. Chapter 10 covers issues regarding general and relapse prevention as well as dif?cult cases and future directions.
| Author | : Grace Harris |
| Publisher | : Charlie Creative Lab |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2020-10-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781801093170 |
Do you have an extreme fear of having others judge you? Do you feel self-conscious while in common, everyday social situations? Are you uncomfortable or fear meeting new people and avoid doing so if you can? If you find that you identify with some of the situations mentioned or you know of someone who is suffering from a social anxiety disorder, this chapter will define what the disorder is, and explain how it impacts those who live with a social anxiety disorder and those around them. These feeling can make it hard for you to go about your day like talking to people at school or work if you've been having these feelings for at least six months or more. The feelings you are having may be that you're suffering from a social anxiety disorder. Also called social phobia, social anxiety disorder is one of the most common of mental health disorders after substance abuse and depression. Social anxiety disorder is the intense anxiety of being judged, evaluated negatively, rejected in social situations, and watched by others which bring about a persistent, powerful fear. This affects your school, work, and everyday activities. Friendships may be hard to make and keep. The hard part of having this condition is having the ability to ask for help. This book covers the following topics: Understanding how social anxiety was born Step to release inner trust How to overcome the fear of speaking in public or to specific people Accept social anxiety and admit that you are shy about yourself Useful exercise to prevent social anxiety What to do to no longer avoid people but welcome them to work on ourselves Observing your thoughts What to do in practice The art of acceptance Start A conversation with anyone Living with A purpose Improve your diet ...And much more It is more likely for individuals with social anxiety disorder to have a generalized kind of this disorder. When anticipatory anxiety, depression, worry, and inferiority feelings among others cut across most situations in life, a generalized type of social anxiety is involved.
| Author | : Louis A. Schmidt |
| Publisher | : Affective Science |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0195118871 |
This volume brings together researchers exploring the biological and psychological determinants of shyness and fear. Its aims to present research to psychologists and clinicians interested in the development and outcome of these emotions in mental health.
| Author | : Emily Ford |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0195313038 |
"We've all felt occasional pangs of shyness and self-consciousness, but if you are a teenager or young adult with social anxiety disorder, then you know that the dread of being scrutinized and criticized can reach disabling proportions. What You Must Think of Me is the first person account of Emily Ford's struggle with social anxiety disorder (or SAD). Now an adult, Ford candidly reveals how she struggled with - and eventually overcame - the obstacles of social anxiety disorder as a young person. With the help of medical adviser Michael Liebowitz and science writer Linda Wasmer Andrews, Ford couples her own story with the latest medical and scientific information about SAD. Here you will find easy-to-understand science about SAD, including its causes, symptoms, and diagnosis. You'll also learn about the various psychotherapies available for young people with SAD, with tips on how to seek - and make the most of - professional help, as well as such issues as how to manage psychiatric medications, how to handle difficult social situations, and how to talk to family and friends about mental illness."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Vera Sonja Maass |
| Publisher | : Praeger |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-01-26 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1440841950 |
This powerful book explains the debilitating effects of social anxiety and the development of the disorder, emphasizing the need for a resolution of this disorder and identifying common but unhelpful coping mechanisms as well as true methods to change and live life unafraid of social situations. It is estimated that some 15 million Americans suffer from social anxiety disorder. For these individuals, parties, sporting events, and even workplaces or public shopping environments evoke anxiety and fear. People who suffer from social anxiety disorder—the most common of all anxiety disorders—fear being scrutinized and judged by others in social or performance situations. They know their fear is unreasonable, but are powerless against the anxiety. This book provides comprehensive coverage of social anxiety disorder by covering its history, explaining the symptoms and root causes, and presenting information on how to make the key changes in thought that can help sufferers find relief and be more comfortable in the modern world. The author uses case histories and dialogue in therapeutic settings to provide a realistic depiction of social anxiety that makes the topic more relevant and understandable to clinicians, students, and friends and family members of sufferers who want to help the socially anxious individual. The emphasis on people's resistance to changing or even examining the basis of their underlying beliefs illustrates the importance of this topic to the overall foundation of social anxiety and the urgency of addressing belief systems in the process of resolution and recovery.
| Author | : Natasha Daniels |
| Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2024-09-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1805011987 |
Look around you at all the people connecting and socializing. And you are just standing here alone, like a social reject, again. Nobody likes you. Why would they want someone like you around? For years, social anxiety whispered its way into Natasha Daniels' mind and quietly sabotaged her life. Even while working as a therapist, helping children to cope with their own anxiety, insecurity lurked in the shadows pointing out the stares, the rejection, the vicious comments from online strangers. In this memoir, Natasha takes on the therapist's role with her past selves to drag her social anxiety into the open. From feisty Miss 6, lonely Miss 14 reeling from a tumultuous childhood, and defiant Miss 18 pushing back against a world where she didn't fit, through to her present self, Natasha explores the way social anxiety colored her experiences and finds healing through self-acceptance.
| Author | : César Rendueles |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2017-04-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0231544375 |
The great ideological cliché of our time, César Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart. Named one of the ten best books of the year by Babelia El País, Sociophobia looks at the root causes of neoliberal utopia's modern collapse. It begins by questioning the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into thinking our passive relationship with technology plays a positive role in resolving longstanding differences. Rendueles claims that the World Wide Web has produced a diminished rather than augmented social reality. In other words, it has lowered our expectations with respect to political interventions and personal relations. In an effort to correct this trend, Rendueles embarks on an ambitious reassessment of our antagonistic political traditions to prove that post-capitalism is not only a feasible, intimate, and friendly system to strive for but also essential for moving past consumerism and political malaise.
| Author | : Richard G. Heimberg |
| Publisher | : Guilford Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2002-07-03 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781572307704 |
Here is the first published manual for cognitive-behavioral group therapy for social phobia (CBGT), an empirically supported treatment approach that has been applied in clinical and research settings for over 20 years. The authors demonstrate how to orient clients to the approach; implement in-session exposures, cognitive restructuring techniques, and homework assignments; and overcome stumbling blocks in treatment. Filled with helpful clinical pointers, case examples, and therapist -- client dialogues, the book also includes sample handouts and forms.
| Author | : John D. Marshall |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1995-05-19 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780465078967 |
Everyone feels shy or nervous occasionally, but for millions of Americans even signing a check or eating a sandwich in public evokes enormous anxiety, often leading these people to withdraw entirely from social contact. Long neglected by psychologists, social phobia has now been dubbed the ”disorder of the decade.” This important book, with its moving case histories, proves that this cruel condition need not doom a person to a life sentence of loneliness and despair. In his ten years of practice in anxiety disorders clinic, John R. Marshall has been a pioneer in recognizing and treating social phobia. Now he presents a vivid portrait of the disorder in all its many manifestations, from a paralyzing fear of eye contact to fear of shopping.
