Shy Children, Phobic Adults - Nature And Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder
Beidel and Turner have spent many years leading research in the various aspects of shyness and social phobia in children. This book is a compilation of work in that area. It is an important contribution to the literature. What makes it different from other books on social phobia is that it focuses not only on the developmental aspect of the condition but also on how to manage the condition in children as well as adults. Each component of effective treatment is discussed and treatment for children and adults is compared and contrasted. This fills many important gaps in the area of social phobia.
Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth - Characteristics, Assessment, and Psychological Treatment
The youngster who won’t talk to anyone. The child who avoids social and extracurricular activities. The teenager who has trouble performing before others. Many children experience social anxiety in certain settings. Some, however, perhaps as many as 4%, experience a clinical condition of severe social and evaluative anxiety that profoundly affects many life situations. Christopher A. Kearney’s Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth sorts out the many nuances of thought and behavior associated with this condition.
The Phobia Self-Help Book is a phobia self help system involving books, videos and the like to provide information, guides and step by step methods to individuals suffering from fears. It is basically a do-it-yourself treatment of different kinds of phobias that help one in their struggle to free themselves of those embarrassing fears. It also educates people about the nature of phobia and what it is all about, where it all comes from and all the necessary details that elucidates the condition to people suffering from it.
Phobias are common, an intrinsic part of growing up. But severe adult phobia contains something intensely irrational - the anxiety at the sight of a bird's feather, the thought of crossing a bridge. Using everyday experience, horror stories, Hitchcock's cinema, and the cultural history of racism, Phobia illuminates the individual and social nightmare world of phobic phenomena.
Here, the foremost researchers explore the biological and psychological determinants of shyness and fear and the development and outcomes of extreme bashfulness. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested or involved in the mental health field.