The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens: CBT and ACT Skills to Help You Build Social Confidence (An Instant Help Book for Teens)

I am a clinical psychologist and have been using this workbook more in lockdown as work is now all remote. I have found it extremely helpful with those under 16 years. It very well guides you through CBT and some elements of ACT. I thought the way it uses values to build motivation before graded exposure was particularly helpful. My clients who have followed this approach have got rapidly better and have actually read it in between sessions! Not for everyone but the age group 12-16, years really seem to enjoy it.

Does exactly what it says on the ‘tin’

USEFUL BOOK

Very informative and helpful, these books are sometimes hard to follow,but it had great self help sections and support sections.

Gave it to my Grandaughter. She found it very helpful

used at work

It is what it is

good book basic

This was a simple way of helping my students understand their problems.

This is a very good book!

My son is going into the eighth grade. I noticed last year he was experiencing some mild social anxiety. We started this workbook today. It’s already helping.

Great selle

This book was very helpful in several ways for both my 15 year old daughter who struggles with intense shyness/social anxiety and for me as a parent. My daughter felt relieved to know that she wasn't the only one to experience this and to realize that there is something she can do about how she is feeling. She felt understood as she was reading the explanations and examples that explained exactly how she was feeling and thinking in her own mind. It was also helpful for her to recognize what thoughts were correlated with those feelings, which took some time to really figure out at first. As a parent it's so helpful to know how to work on this and what steps to take that will be most effective. Now we are using the methods in this book over and over to practice and to slowly but surely overcome her social anxiety. The one thing that would make this book better is if they would include the worksheets separately in the back of the book or provide a website to download them once you buy the book so you can continue to make copies and practice. I've purchased other books that provide this and it allows you to really keep using the book to practice. As you're using the workbook and writing in it sometimes it's too late when you realize you've written on a page that you'd like to keep reusing for practice because just doing it once in the workbook is definitely not enough to overcome social anxiety. So don't write in the book if you want to be able to make copies and keep practicing!