Social Anxiety Disorder Worksheet
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HappierTherapy
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Social anxiety disorder includes the excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations or performance apprehensions. Such individuals assume to be subjected to potential judgment, criticism, scrutiny, and rejection or exposed to unfamiliar conditions or persons. Further, the person fears to behave in an embarrassing or humiliating manner before the people in the surroundings.
What Are the Theories Behind This Worksheet?
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the treatment of social anxiety disorder is not a new but a well-versed approach to managing the problem. People with this disorder experience erroneous thought patterns like others’ mind reading producing negative thoughts and worst assumptions as catastrophizing like I am a total failure or labeling oneself as a goof, fool, terrible, etc. However, CBT aims to alter these negative thought patterns associated with negative emotional expressions like chills, sweating, hot flashes, trembling or shaking, etc. Thus, this change of thought changes emotions that will bring the respective change in negative behavior from avoidance, anxiousness, and isolation to adaptation, confidence, and networking.
How Will This Worksheet Help you?
This worksheet will help people with social anxiety disorder work on their thought patterns and replace the negative ones with positive thoughts, resulting in positive emotions directing behavioral management.
How Should You Use This Worksheet?
This worksheet is helpful for mental health professionals, facilitators, or relevant practitioners to help people with a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder. They can use it in their regular sessions or training platforms. Further, people who feel the symptoms of a social anxiety disorder (as shared above) can try practicing this by themselves to change their negative approach or thought processing to a positive one for managing the symptoms of social anxiety.
