CBT Techniques for Social Anxiety: A Therapist's Guide to Overcoming Fear and Building Confidence

Welcome to the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Social Anxiety course. This succinct program is designed for mental health professionals aiming to expand their capabilities in helping clients with social anxiety.

Understanding Social Anxiety

We start the course with a thorough understanding of social anxiety, its triggers, and how it manifests and influences an individual's life. This understanding lays the groundwork for targeted CBT interventions to effectively address the core problem and not just the surface-level symptoms.

CBT Techniques for Social Anxiety

CBT has proven to be a highly effective strategy in the treatment of social anxiety. Throughout this course, we focus on how to apply the CBT model to social anxiety cases, especially the identification and challenging of dysfunctional beliefs and assumptions, and the development of healthier behavioural patterns.

Key Elements of CBT for Social Anxiety

In this course, you will learn to:

Conduct effective assessments for social anxiety. Understand and manage self-focused attention and safety behaviours in clients.

Use audio and video feedback to address safety behaviours.

Equip clients to better understand and respond to their social environment.

Help clients handle anticipatory and post-event processing.

Deal with assumptions underlying social anxiety.

Navigate common therapeutic issues encountered while treating social anxiety.

Practical Application

This course melds theoretical knowledge with hands-on tools to provide a complete learning experience. You'll be able to engage with the principles of CBT for social anxiety through practical exercises, applying these techniques in a real-world context.

Course Benefits

By completing this short yet impactful course, you will gain a solid understanding of social anxiety, the skills to develop and implement efficient CBT treatment plans, and the ability to guide your clients on their journey through social anxiety towards improved mental health.

Step into this course today to augment your therapeutic skills and help your clients overcome their social anxiety. Together, let's promote mental wellness and resilience.

Who this course is for: Mental health professionals focusing on social anxiety in their practice. Therapists looking to deepen their understanding of safety behaviours and anticipatory/post-event processing. Counsellors interested in refining their skills in managing assumptions underlying social anxiety.

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Release date

Audiobook: 3 February 2024