Jan E. Fleming

Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shyness is a common problem that comes with a high price. If you suffer from shyness or social anxiety you might avoid social situations and may have trouble connecting with others due to an extreme fear of humiliation, rejection, and judgment. As a shy person, you may also experience panic attacks that make it even more likely that you'll avoid social situations.

With The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness, the authors' acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) program for overcoming shyness has become available to the public for the first time. This program has been found to be highly effective in research studies for the treatment of social anxiety disorder and related subclinical levels of shyness.

In the first section, you will confront performance fears, test anxiety, shy bladder, and interpersonal fears¿fundamental symptoms of social anxiety. The second part helps you learn psychological flexibility to improve your...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Harbinger Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608820825
• Artikelnr.: 47817560

Autorenporträt

Nancy L. Kocovski, PhD, is associate professor of psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON, Canada, where she teaches in the area of clinical psychology and maintains an active research program focused on social anxiety, mindfulness and acceptance-based treatments, and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). She received a New Investigator Fellowship from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation for her work on the development of mindfulness and acceptance-based group therapy for social anxiety disorder. She received an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation in Ontario for her work on social anxiety and mindfulness. Kocovski also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice at CBT Associates of Toronto. For more information about Kocovski and her work, please visit www.ACTonsocialanxiety.com.