Helping Your Shy and Socially Anxious Client : a Social Fitness Training Protocol Using CBT.

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1; Redefining Shyness and Its Treatment; Chapter 2; Twelve-Session Treatment Plan Overview; Part 2; Chapter 3; Session One:The Initial Evaluation; The Henderson-Zimbardo Shyness Questionnaire (ShyQ.); Estimations of Others Scale (EOS); Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS); Social Interaction Log; Chapter 4; Session Two:Constructing a Hierarchy; Between-Sessions Shyness Questionnaire; Sample Hierarchy; Client Hierarchy; Shyness Attribution Questionnaire (SAQ); Chapter 5.

Session Three: Cognitive Restructuring and the First Simulated ExposureStrategies for Social Situations; The Three Vicious Cycles of Shyness and Social Anxiety; Sample Social Interaction Log; Cognitive Distortions; Challenges to Automatic Thoughts; Exposure Simulation Recording Form; Chapter 6; Session Four: Attributional Restructuring and Exposure; Reversing the Self-Enhancement Bias; Assigning Responsibility: Distortions; Sample Automatic Thoughts, Attributions, and Beliefs; Challenges to Negative Attributions; Confidentiality Agreement for Confederates; Chapter 7.

Session Five: Cognitive, Attributional, and Self-Concept RestructuringSelf-Concept Distortions (SCDs); Challenges to Negative Self-Conceptualizations; Chapter 8; Session Six: Challenging Negative Attributions and Beliefs About Others; Negative Thoughts and Beliefs About Others: Conceptual Distortions; Challenges to Negative Beliefs About Others; Chapter 9; Session Seven: More Practice in Changing Negative Thoughts and Beliefs; Chapter 10; Session Eight: Automatic Thoughts About Others and the Third Vicious Cycle; Challenges to Negative Attributions and Beliefs About Others.

Anger Management PracticeSocial Fitness Brainstorming; Chapter 11; Session Nine: Exposures and Progress Assessment; Chapter 12; Session Ten: Exposures and Anticipating Closure; Assertiveness Skills Practice; The Shyness Clinic Attribution Style Quiz; Chapter 13; Session Eleven: More Exposures and Anticipating Closure; Goal Review; Chapter 14; Session Twelve: Review of Progress and Closure; Self-Monitoring/Attribution/ Self-Other Belief Scale; Termination Letter/Discharge Summary; Part 3; Chapter 15; Interpersonal Social-Skills Training; Appendix A:Answer Key for Attribution Style Quiz.

Appendix B:Final Interview OutlineAppendix C:Letter to Friends; Appendix D:Therapist Instructions for BAT; Appendix E: Thought Listing Form; References; _ENREF_2; _ENREF_7; _ENREF_6; _ENREF_5; _ENREF_16; _ENREF_4; _ENREF_10; _ENREF_19; _ENREF_20; _ENREF_1; _ENREF_24; _ENREF_9.

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.

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