Social Anxiety Worksheet
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HappierTherapy
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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Social anxiety results in excessive worrying and unreasonable fear about gatherings, social interactions, or performance-related situations. Socially anxious individuals experience negative thought processes like others will evaluate, judge, criticize, or reject them in all life situations. They feel apprehensive about unfamiliar conditions or persons. Also, they are always bothered about doing something embarrassing or humiliating in front of others. The extreme form of such experiences may endanger someone getting the diagnosis of social anxiety disorder.
What Are the Theories Behind This Worksheet?
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers the golden treatment to manage social anxiety. It targets the vicious cycle of erroneous thought patterns directing negative thoughts, triggering negative emotional states that cause awkward behavior like avoidance or isolation.
How Will This Worksheet Help you?
This worksheet will help people who experience social anxiety to work on their disruptive thoughts and experience positive emotions that will support them in managing their behavior.
How Should You Use This Worksheet?
This worksheet is helpful for anyone working with socially anxious individuals or those who find this behavior in themselves. It will direct their negative approach or thought processing to a positive one and reduce the symptoms of social anxiety.
