The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook by Martin M. Antony & Richard P Swinson

Author:Martin M. Antony & Richard P Swinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SEL036000 Self-help / Anxieties & Phobias, PSY022060 Psychology / Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias, SEL031000 Self-help / Personal Growth / General
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

A Summary Guide to Challenging Thoughts

This chapter includes a large number of suggestions and strategies for identifying and changing your thoughts. Now that you have had a chance to read through the chapter and complete some of the exercises, we encourage you to continue using cognitive techniques to cope with your social and performance anxiety. Generally, using cognitive strategies will involve the following steps:

Identify your anxiety-provoking thoughts, predictions, and interpretations.

Examine the validity of your thoughts, predictions, and interpretations using some of the techniques described in this chapter (such as examining the evidence, taking the perspective of others, examining the costs and benefits of your thoughts, conducting behavioral experiments). Are your thoughts, predictions, and interpretations realistic? For example, will others really think about you?

Examine the validity of your catastrophic thoughts, predictions, and interpretations by asking, “So what if my thoughts, predictions, or interpretations are true? How could I get through it?” For example, “What if a few people in the audience really think my presentation is awful? How might I cope with that?”

Use the Social Anxiety Thought Record to identify and challenge your thoughts on paper.

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