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Social anxiety

14 techniques · 5 approaches
CBT
Assertiveness Training (DEAR MAN)
Assertiveness Training (DEAR MAN)
Training in healthy communication: expressing needs, saying no and protecting boundaries without aggression or passivity. DEAR MAN includes …
CBT
Behavioral Experiment
Behavioral Experiment
A planned real-world test of a belief. The client states a prediction, designs a safe experiment, performs it, and compares prediction with …
CBT
Cognitive Rehearsal
Cognitive Rehearsal
Mental rehearsal of a difficult situation before it occurs. The client imagines the situation, practices coping thoughts and planned behavio…
CBT
Decatastrophizing
Decatastrophizing
Work with catastrophizing by following the feared scenario through to the end. The therapist does not deny that something bad could happen; …
CBT
Downward Arrow Technique
Downward Arrow Technique
A technique for uncovering core beliefs by repeatedly asking, "If that were true, what would it mean to you?" Starting from a surface automa…
CBT
Graded Exposure
Graded Exposure
A step-by-step behavioral technique for reducing fear and avoidance. The client builds a hierarchy of feared situations, starts with managea…
CBT
Reattribution
Reattribution
A technique for reducing personalization and excessive guilt. The client explores all factors that contributed to an event instead of assign…
CBT
Role Play
Role Play
A rehearsal technique for interpersonal situations. Therapist and client enact a difficult conversation, pause, adjust wording and try again…
CFT
Compassionate Exposure
Compassionate Exposure
An adaptation of classical exposure in CFT: the client meets avoided situations, emotions, or memories from the position of the compassionat…
CFT
Working with Shame (De-Shaming)
Working with Shame (De-Shaming)
A set of CFT interventions targeted at shame as the central pathogenic affect. Gilbert distinguishes external shame (fear of being rejected)…
DBT
Check the Facts
Check the Facts
A technique for distinguishing whether the intensity and the kind of an emotion fit the actual situation. If they do not — Opposite Action i…
DBT
Participate
Participate
Building the capacity to engage fully in the current activity, without scattering attention, without self-monitoring, without criticizing wh…
MCT
Situational Attentional Refocusing (SAR)
Situational Attentional Refocusing (SAR)
A strategy of transferring attention from internal self-monitoring and threat-oriented scanning to external tasks in specific situations. Un…
REBT
Shame-Attacking Exercises
Shame-Attacking Exercises
The client deliberately does something "awkward" or "embarrassing" in a public place — not to cause harm, but to confront the fear of social…
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