Social Anxiety (Social Phobia)

The fear of appearing foolish and/or being criticized or rejected in social situations: “People will judge me”; I’ll look foolish”; images of blushing, others making fun of me . . .

Introduction
  1. Examples of the signs and symptoms of social anxiety
  2. Assessment: What’s Your Social Anxiety Score?
  3. A Day in the life of someone with Social Anxiety
  4. Where Does social Anxiety come From?
  5. Explaining Social Anxiety
  6. How to Over Come Social Anxiety: An Overview
  7. Flight, Fight or Freeze?
  8. The problem with Avoidance
  9. The problem with ‘Safety Behaviours’
  10. The Effects of Self-Focused Attention
  11. The Post-Mortem: Ruminating After The Event
  12. Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs): Some Examples
  13. Patterns of Biased Thinking
  14. Alternative ways of thinking
  15.  Reworking Past Shame Scenes
  16.  Reworking Core Beliefs and Our Rules for Living