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THE GUILFORD PRESS

Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety

Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety

Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS)

ISBN: 9781462534609
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Social anxiety disorder causes significant distress and academic impairment for many adolescents. This unique book gives front-line school professionals innovative, easy-to-use tools for identifying and intervening with socially anxious students in grades 6-12. It presents Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS), a school-based intervention with demonstrated effectiveness. Case examples and sample scripts demonstrate how to implement psychoeducation, cognitive strategies, social skills training, exposure, and relapse prevention with groups and individual students. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes 22 reproducible handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

Imprint: THE GUILFORD PRESS

By: Carrie Masia Warner,Daniela Colognori,Chelsea Lynch

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Format: PAPERBACK

Pages: 241

I. Recognizing and Addressing Social Anxiety at School 1. What Is Social Anxiety? 2. Why Treat Social Anxiety at School? 3. Identifying Students Struggling with Social Anxiety II. Promoting Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS) 4. Educating Teenagers about Social Anxiety 5. Socially Anxious Thinking 101 6. Realistic Thinking 7. Go Ahead, Start the Conversation 8. Maintaining Conversations and Extending Invitations 9. The Secret to Meaningful Conversations: Listening to What Others Say 10. Your Needs Matter: Learn to Speak Up! 11. Facing Your Fears: Creating a Fear Ladder 12. Climbing the Ladder: Exposure Practice in School III. Supplementary Strategies 13. Getting Parents Involved: How Can They Help? 14. School Social Events and Peer Facilitators 15. Classroom Strategies for Teachers IV. Other Practical and Clinical Considerations 16. The Nuts and Bolts of Helping Anxious Students at School: Putting It All Together 17. Applying Intervention Skills to Other Anxiety Concerns 18. Keep It Up!: Ways to Maintain Student Progress

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