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Social Anxiety Disorder Comprehensive Training Course: Evidence-based CBT strategies to overcome fear, stress, and avoidance

In this six-part intensive training, you will learn how to use the five most effective strategies for treating social anxiety disorder. You will also learn how to apply, combine, and adapt these strategies to fit the unique needs of your socially anxious client. Learn from clinical expert, Larry Cohen, as he teaches you exactly how to design and implement these critical skills in order to decrease social anxiety and build self-confidence. Watch as he demonstrates through role plays exactly how to use the strategies in a flexible, relational way. PLUS, in addition to this intensive training course, you get 70 pages of client worksheets, instructional handouts and questionnaires for you to use and adapt in your own practice.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine what social anxiety disorder is, its impact on those who suffer from it, and what treatments have been demonstrated to be most effective.
Employ strategies to help clients understand the impact of self-focus and self-evaluation when experiencing social anxiety, and how to use external mindfulness when socially anxious.
Utilize strategies to train clients in differing means of doing cognitive restructuring before and after social anxiety triggers.
Construct behavioral experiments / exposures to test socially anxious thoughts and underlying core beliefs, and to increase client motivation to carry out such experiments.
Demonstrate strategies to train clients in the use of assertive defense of the self to increase self-confidence in handling fears come true.
Utilize strategies to help clients identify and change underlying core beliefs that exacerbate their social anxiety.