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The Invitation: Are You Ready to Begin the Journey to Overcome Social Anxiety? |
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Social Anxiety or Social Anxiety Disorder? |
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How Do I Know if This Program is for Me? |
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Will This Program Work for Me? |
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7 | (1) |
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What Can I Do to Get the Most Out of This Program? |
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8 | (2) |
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Overview of This Treatment Program |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (1) |
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Starting Our Journey Together From the Same Place: Understanding Social Anxiety |
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The Three Components of Anxiety |
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The Physiological Component |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (3) |
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19 | (4) |
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Interaction of the Physiological, Cognitive, and Behavioral Components |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (1) |
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26 | (3) |
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More About Social Anxiety and This Treatment Program |
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Possible Causes of Social Anxiety |
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29 | (3) |
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Genetics: Is Social Anxiety in Your Genes? |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (1) |
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Pulling It All Together: The Interaction of Genetics, Family Environment, and Important Life Experiences |
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31 | (1) |
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Dysfunctional Thinking Patterns |
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How Dysfunctional Thinking Patterns Play Out in an Actual Situation |
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33 | (1) |
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Dysfunctional Beliefs and Increased Physiological Arousal |
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34 | (1) |
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Dysfunctional Beliefs and Behavior |
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35 | (1) |
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Summary of the Development of Social Anxiety and Dysfunctional Beliefs |
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35 | (1) |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
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36 | (1) |
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy as Treatment for Social Anxiety |
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37 | (1) |
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What Is Involved in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy? |
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Systematic Graduated Exposure |
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38 | (1) |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (1) |
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Summary of the Rationale for Treatment |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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41 | (2) |
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Plotting the Road Map for Our Journey: Gathering Information on the Situations That Are Difficult for You |
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Building a Fear and Avoidance Hierarchy |
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44 | (6) |
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44 | (3) |
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Step 2: Rank Ordering the Situations |
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47 | (2) |
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Step 3: Discovering the Dimensions That Make a Situation Easier or Harder for You |
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Step 4: Rating Each Situation for Fear It Evokes and the Likelihood You Will Avoid It |
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SUDS: Subjective Units of Discomfort Scale |
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50 | (2) |
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52 | (4) |
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Final Words on Your Fear and Avoidance Hierarchy |
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56 | (1) |
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56 | (8) |
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Learning to Monitor Your Anxiety |
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56 | (1) |
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Why Do the Self-Monitoring? |
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57 | (7) |
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64 | (1) |
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Identifying the Thoughts That Cause Anxiety |
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65 | (18) |
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Reviewing Your Self-Monitoring Homework |
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65 | (1) |
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The Importance of Thoughts |
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66 | (1) |
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The Relationship Between Events, Thoughts, and Feelings |
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67 | (1) |
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How Other People Might React to Our Thoughts |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (1) |
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Identifying ATs and the Emotions They Cause |
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Identifying Your Own ATs and the Emotions They Cause |
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75 | (3) |
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78 | (5) |
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78 | (3) |
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What to Do If You Do Not Get Anxious This Week |
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81 | (1) |
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81 | (2) |
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Tools to Challenge Your Automatic Thoughts |
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83 | (26) |
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83 | (7) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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Disqualifying or Discounting the Positive |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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``Should'' and ``Must'' Statements |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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Finding the Logical Errors in Your Automatic Thoughts |
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90 | (3) |
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Identifying the Thinking Errors in Your Homework ATs |
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93 | (1) |
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Challenging Your Automatic Thoughts |
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94 | (5) |
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Combating Automatic Thoughts with a Rational Response |
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99 | (5) |
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104 | (1) |
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104 | (5) |
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Getting Into the Pool: The First Exposure Session |
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How Therapeutic Exposure is Helpful |
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The First In-Session Exposure |
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111 | (6) |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (1) |
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Working Out the Details of the Exposure Situation |
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113 | (1) |
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Setting an Achievable Behavioral Goal |
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Setting the Goal of Not Being Anxious |
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Importance of Setting Goals |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (2) |
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Do's and Don'ts of Therapeutic Exposure |
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After the Exposure---Debriefing the Experience |
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117 | (3) |
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118 | (1) |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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Homework After the First In-Session Exposure |
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120 | (3) |
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Chuck's First Exposure---The Friday Afternoon Conversation |
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120 | (3) |
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123 | (6) |
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Summary of Homework for Chapter 7 |
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124 | (5) |
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129 | (2) |
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Settling Into the Journey: The Ongoing Routine of In-Session and Homework Exposures |
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131 | (10) |
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How to Pick Situations for Exposure |
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131 | (3) |
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Tackle Easier Situations First |
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131 | (2) |
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Each Exposure Should Build on the Last One |
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133 | (1) |
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Use Exposures to Challenge ATs |
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How Cognitive Restructuring Changes as You Tackle Different Situations |
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The Relationship Between Exposures, Cognitive Restructuring, and Homework |
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134 | (1) |
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Summary of the Course of the Treatment Program |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (1) |
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Homework for the Rest of the Program |
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137 | (2) |
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137 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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Making Overcoming Anxiety a New Habit |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (2) |
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Overcoming Fears of Doing Things in Front of Others |
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141 | (16) |
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The Original Social Phobia |
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141 | (3) |
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Common ATs Related to Observational Fear and How to Handle Them |
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144 | (1) |
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144 | (4) |
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145 | (2) |
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Achievable Behavioral Goals and the In-Session Exposure |
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147 | (1) |
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Using Pie Charts to Challenge ATs |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (4) |
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Challenging Stephanie's ATs |
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149 | (1) |
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Achievable Behavioral Goals and the Exposure |
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150 | (1) |
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General Strategies to Address Fears of Making Mistakes |
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150 | (2) |
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Exposures for Observational Fears |
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152 | (3) |
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Eating in Front of Others |
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153 | (1) |
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Drinking in Front of Others |
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153 | (1) |
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Writing in Front of Others |
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154 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (14) |
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The Big Impact of Small Talk |
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157 | (2) |
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Small Talk Begins Relationships |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (2) |
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Examining Your Social Support Network |
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159 | (2) |
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Common ATs for Casual Conversations |
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161 | (4) |
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``I Won't Know What to Say'' |
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161 | (1) |
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``I'm Not Very Good at Making Conversation'' |
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162 | (3) |
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Penny: Fear of Casual Conversations |
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165 | (3) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (14) |
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Tom: From Computer Jock to Public Speaker |
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172 | (7) |
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What to Take From the Case of Tom |
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178 | (1) |
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LeAnn: The Overly Prepared Vice-President |
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179 | (3) |
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What to Take From the Case of LeAnn |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (3) |
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Advanced Cognitive Restructuring: Addressing Core Beliefs |
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185 | (14) |
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Looking for Common Themes in Your ATs |
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185 | (1) |
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Danielle: ``I Should Do Everything Perfectly'' |
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186 | (4) |
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Brent: ``If People Really Knew Me'' |
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190 | (1) |
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Arlene: ``I'm An Imposter'' |
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191 | (2) |
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Discovering Your Core Beliefs |
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193 | (1) |
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Not All Core Beliefs are Hard to Find |
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193 | (5) |
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This Is Not About Gaining Insight Into Your Past |
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198 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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Getting Ready to Continue the Journey on Your Own: Consolidating Gains and Finishing Treatment |
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199 | (10) |
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Checklist of Progress So Far |
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How to Continue Making Progress |
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200 | (2) |
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New Situations Mean New Challenges |
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202 | (1) |
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Reactions of Family, Friends, and Other People |
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203 | (1) |
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When to Stop Seeing Your Therapist Regularly |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (2) |
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When to Call Your Therapist for a Booster Session |
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206 | (1) |
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End of the Journey Together |
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207 | (1) |
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207 | (2) |
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Medication Treatment of Social Anxiety |
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209 | (8) |
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How Medications Affect the Brain and Reduce Social Anxiety |
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209 | (1) |
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Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) |
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210 | (1) |
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Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs) |
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211 | (1) |
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Beta-adrenergic Blockers (Beta Blockers) |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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General Considerations in Undertaking Drug Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder |
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214 | (1) |
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Mixing Therapy and Medication |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (1) |
Appendix A: Self-Assessment Answers |
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References |
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