Helping your shy and socially anxious client : a social fitness training protocol using CBT / Lynne Henderson, PhD ; foreword by Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, Lynne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bashfulness.

Timidity.

Social phobia--Treatment.

Social phobia.

Cognitive therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (531 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, Inc., [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many clients with shyness and social anxiety believe they can never change. They may even adjust their lives to avoid social activities or situations that make them uncomfortable. In a sense, they allow their social ""muscles"" to atrophy, and in the end may become even more alienated and despondent. There is hope. Just as physical fitness strengthens the body, ""social fitness"" can be developed through habit and action. In Helping Your Shy and Socially Anxious Client, shyness expert Lynne Henderson presents the Social Fitness program-a twelve session cognitive behavioral model

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Redefining shyness and its treatment

Twelve-session treatment plan overview and therapist preparation

Session one: the initial evaluation

Session two: constructing a hierarchy

Session three: cognitive restructuring and the first simulated exposure

Session four: attributional restructuring and exposure

Session five: cognitive, attributional, and self-concept restructuring

Session six: challenging negative attributions and beliefs about others

Session seven: more practice in changing negative thoughts and beliefs

Session eight: automatic thoughts about others and the third vicious cycle

Session nine: exposures and progress assessment

Session ten: exposures and anticipating closure

Session eleven: more exposures and anticipating closure

Session twelve: review of progress and closure

Interpersonal social-skills training

Appendix A: Answer key for attribution style quiz

Appendix B: Final interview outline

Appendix C: Letter to friends

Appendix D: Therapist instructions for bat

Appendix E: The shyness clinic thought listing form

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781461957331

1461957338

9781608829620

1608829626

OCLC:

869641859