Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety

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