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For those living with Social Anxiety and extreme shyness, every day can be a struggle.Simple, mundane activities that the average person doesn't give a second thought about, such as going to the grocery store, can become insurmountable obstacles.21 Ways to Overcome Shyness and Social Anxiety: Your Self Help Guide to Coping with and Overcoming Social Anxiety Disorder offers tips on quickly and easily addressing your Social Anxiety or extreme shyness and helping you improve your quality of life. ... Read more

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Aimed at psychologists, psychiatrists and other healthcare practitioners, this reference work provides an alphabetical listing of all fears, anxieties and phobias, detailed under both their medical and common names. ... Read more

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A great resource on fear
As a psychologist specializing in treating fears and phobias, I found this book really interesting. The author is highly acclaimed in psychological circles to do with anxiety. The book is unique in that it could be used both by therapists and the general public. It's easy to read style and also being set out in a simple alphabetical format, would be helpful in diagnosing patients, and also make for great read for the everyday person in understanding more about the amazing world of fears and phobias, a topic that affects us all.

Anthony Gunn, psychologist and author of Fear Is Power: Turn Your Fears Into Success

tremendous resource!
i found this book to be immensely helpful, and i find myself returning to it again and again.

A Multi-purpose Referancnce Book
While I am not a professional in this feild I have found this book remarkably help full in in understanding what these human behaviours are, the theories behind them, some of the medications that are/have been usedin some cases and a few of the clinical studies that have been done in thisfeild.

The material is written in laymens terns and is arrangedalphabtically.It would be of assistance to anyone wanting a betterunderstanding of the feild or then student who is just starting theirstudies in college in this feild.

In my case the book has been and stillis used in a most unusal way.I am referee for war gaming and havesuccessfully used this referance with my players to prevent"perfect" characters from existing.The players in turn becomeso drawned to the book they wind up reading it and learning about thiswhole area!

This book would have recieved 5 stars except for the factthat the material is all listed as one listing: clinical, definitions, andPharmacology (sp?).The book would have been better off as one book withseveral distinct sections. ... Read more

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The 76-page eBook, "How To Win Your War Against Anxiety Disorders," is a must read not only for people suffering from anxiety disorders, but also for those who know such people. It provides simple explanations about the symptoms and treatment of anxiety disorder, various therapies, and the different types of medication available. Also, there are tips on caring for sufferers of anxiety disorders.

These Are Some Of The Tips You Will Find In The Book :

* Tips And Tricks For Relieving Anxiety...Fast!
* Take Some Deep Breaths
* Stop For A Few Minutes
* Write It Down
* Visualize
* Walk Away
* Distractions
* Take Control With Planning
* Showers And Other Strange Fixes
* Talk To A Friend
* End Of Anxiety
* Anxiety And Depression - Dealing With Life
* The Signs Of Depression
* Anxiety Attack Symptoms - How To Deal With Your Anxiety
* Some Easy Anxiety Cures
* Anxiety Disorders, Panic Disorders, And The Synergy Between Them
* Anxiety Medication - Be Careful And Easy Does It
* Things To Keep In Mind During Treatment
* Anxiety - You Are Not Alone
* Bipolar Anti-Anxiety Medications - One Part Of The Treatment Puzzle
* Child Anxiety Attacks - The Unreported Truth
* Curing Panic Attacks - Take Back Control Of Your Life
* Discounted Anxiety Medications - Don't Spend Way Too Much For The Name Brands
* Even Hollywood Stars Can Have Panic Disorders
* Using Interpersonal Therapy To Treat Panic Disorders
* Math Anxiety - It Is Possible To Cope
* Using Natural Remedies For Panic Attacks - A Homeopathic Approach
* Panic Attack Medications - Hope For Many
* Social Anxiety Disorder
* How To Deal With Social Anxiety And Depression
* In Search Of The Ultimate Anxiety Relief
* Panic Disorders In Adolescents
* Panic Disorders
* Sertraline For Panic Attacks
* Social Anxiety Disorder
* Social Anxiety Treatment
* Social Phobias Anxiety Medications
* What Kind Of Social Anxiety Medicine Is Available?


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Overcome social anxiety during fun or work related gatherings or when encountering people one on one. Feel more confident, comfortable & worthy of being around people & even having friends! Helps to establish healthy social habits, acceptable social behavior & boundaries. Also works to control blushing, nervous laughter, fidgeting, pacing, excessive sweating & other anxiety related behavior.Take the first step to transforming yourself. You deserve to have a full & successful life. You deserve to have friends and to be able to communicate comfortably in any social setting. This CD will help you to develop socially acceptable habits.Play this CD while resting, sleeping, working or playing. Meanwhile, your subconscious mind soaks in the powerful subliminal suggestions that will begin transforming you into a healthier, more optimistic YOU! This Subliminal CD was produced & created using the most sophisticated digital recording & processing available today. The background provides ocean waves & beautiful synthesizer music to enhance your relaxation. You hear no audible words or voices. You can allow this recording to play over & over again while you sleep, relax or prepare for sleep.This subliminal product contains hundreds of positive affirmations recorded onto one relaxing CD. Although the words aren't audible, they are there and they are powerful! The affirmations are masked by beautiful music & soothing ocean waves. Meanwhile, as you focus on something else, or just while relaxing, the subliminal affirmations take hold in your subconscious mind. The affirmations are powerful & designed to bring about safe, healthy & permanent changes in your life. With so many subliminal products on the market, be cautious to purchase only REAL subliminal recordings with NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming) affirmations. Proper production, recording, scripting, & duplication are vital in creating such a powerful product. Use only the BEST! Trust Mind Design technology & expertise. ... Read more

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Subliminal CD
I don't know how to review a subliminal message since I don't know what the message was.I received the cd in good condition and in a reasonable amount of time. ... Read more

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A story about a boy learning to manage his fears of social situations and criticism. He uses the acronym BRAVE, which stands for be ready and victory's easy; to plan ahead for difficult situations at school and home.
Back Cover: Danny, a fifth grader, is bombarded with real and imagined problems. As if school itself wasn't stressful enough, a long speech is required, which feels impossible to him. The only way to get out of giving the speech is to win the science contest. When he's paired with Jack, the goof-off kid in class, he's doomed. Bus stop terrors, lunchtime woes, and dealing with his mean older brother add to his stress. Then disaster strikes! His usual coping strategies are no longer working. What will he do? ... Read more

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Victory for within
Reviewed by Matthew Feliciano (age 8) for Reader Views (11/08)

"BRAVE" is about a boy named Danny.He has trouble with a lot of things at school and with life.He is ten-years-old, but age doesn't matter because he has the same problems a lot of kids have.His problems were that whenever he had a test or something, he either had a headache, or had a stomachache and tried to stay home from school.He got bullied a lot and was pretty much afraid of everything.One day, his teacher said that they had to give a speech and the only way to get out of giving the speech was to win the science fair.Danny was really looking forward to being able to get out of the speech and was certain he would be able to win the science fair.

Danny was paired for the science project with the class clown, Jack.Jack invited Danny to come over to his house and work on the project with Jack's grandpa.He doesn't want to go but his mom forces him to because he has trouble making new friends.When he gets there, Jack's grandpa tells him something that helped him a lot.Grandpa tells Danny to be BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory is Easy.Jack's grandpa noticed that Danny was shy and that is why he told him about BRAVE.The characteristics of BRAVE are something that helped Grandpa as a kid and he thinks this will help Danny deal with things.

With the technique that Grandpa showed Danny, Danny was able to be ready for tests and other things in life that scared him. For example, he wrote the explanation for BRAVE on a piece of paper to remind himself of what to do.He used this when his brother was being mean and instead of losing his cool, Danny said "So" or "Whatever" and didn't let his brother get to him.The more he used BRAVE, the happier he became.With the technique, he went on to work with Jack and win the science fair.

I would recommend "BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory is Easy" by Marjie Braun Knudsen and Jenne R. Henderson, PhD, for anybody who has trouble in their life.I know that I have some struggles that are similar to Danny's and reading this book helped give me a new way to deal with things. This book was written to help and teach kids, but instead of sounding like a grownup telling you what to do, this book read just like a regular story with a regular kid showing the way.Teachers and counselors at schools would also benefit from this book, too.I liked it a lot and am going to bring it to share with my class.

Great book to read with my little boy!
This book was great.My son had many similar fears as the boy in the story, so he was able to relate.This book helped us find something that worked and my son has been able to do many things previously impossible.

Would definitely reccommend for anybody with a young child that experiences frequent anxiety.

Where was this book when I was a kid?!
I initially read this book with the eyes of a fifth-grader but the universal message of being prepared for the eventuality of stressful situations and having the tools needed to get through them is a lesson anyone could relate to!Danny is believable as are the situations he encounters.The authors do a great job of covering a multitude of 'worries';surely any child will recognize theirs in these pages. I sure wish I had these tools when I was a child and I will actually be giving this book to my still-anxious nineteen year old college student to read!

BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory's Easy
Whether opportunistically or with some forethought, people have made and used tools through the millennia. We see evidence of this today in technological innovations that literally have changed the face of the Earth. Yet, we have lagged in developing tools that contribute to what has come to be known as emotional intelligence. The engaging story about a boy named Danny as told in BRAVE makes a contribution to the toolkit for dealing with social anxiety. Danny has challenges in fifth grade, when he learns tools for dealing with both difficult people and uncomfortable situations. He then takes steps to put the tools to use. These are lessons I wish for every child. ... Read more

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Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a remarkably common disorder that causes severe disruptions in daily life. However, despite growing literature specific aetiological factors underpinning SAD are still relatively unknown. Cognitive theories propose that memories of past experiences and biased schematic processing influence the development and maintenance of the disorder. This book aimed to explore aetiological factors underlying social anxiety, using an experimental design comprising projective and self-report measures. Five early memories were cued to activate early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) in participants with high social anxiety. Results suggested that schemas were activated by specific people or events in memory and thus offers a new experimental design for future research in this area. Defectiveness/ shame schemas cued by school memories and failure schemas probed by memories of a social situation predicted social anxiety although regression analyses failed to reach statistical significance. Nevertheless, due to a small sample size and non-clinical population, these findings could be considered preliminary evidence that lie in the expected direction. ... Read more

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A detailed booklet that describes the symptoms, causes, and treatments of the major anxiety disorders, with information on getting help and coping. This booklet is also for family and friend that are looking for further understand of this disorder.

This booklet will:
• describe the symptoms of anxiety disorders,
• explain the role of research in understanding
the causes of these conditions,
• describe effective treatments,
• help you learn how to obtain treatment and
work with a doctor or therapist, and
• suggest ways to make treatment more effective.
You will also learn descriptions and solutions to these common terms:


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depression
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mental health
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A must read Anxiety Disorder Book
Anxiety Book and Panic Disorder explained with an unbiased view.No Fluff, just valuable information on anxiety disorders, and information on panic attacks or anxiety attacks.

You Can't Get Any Better Information
This Book comes straight from the US Government.If you trust the US Government, this book will give you all the information you need about Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder that is current. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Poor working conditions may be an important source of stress and may therefore contribute to the development of depressive and anxiety disorders. Social support may act as a buffer and protect against the development of depression or anxiety in the face of poor working conditions. With longitudinal data from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study (NEMESIS), the effect of working conditions and social support on the incidence of depressive and anxiety disorders was examined among 2646 working men and women, aged 18 through 65 years. Three dimensions of self reported working conditions were assessed: psychological demands, decision latitude and job security. Social support was assessed through validated scales for daily emotional support. About 10.5% of working women and 4.6% among working men developed an incident depressive and/or anxiety disorder over 2 years. Psychological demands predicted the incidence of depressive and anxiety disorders in both men and women (RR per score increase=2.29, 95% CI: 1.44-3.63), whereas decision latitude and job security did not. Social support protected against the incidence of depressive and anxiety disorders. This effect was stronger for men compared to women. Social support did not buffer the unfavorable mental effect of working conditions. Women were more likely to report low levels of decision latitude, whereas men reported higher psychological demands. Working conditions did not explain sex differences in the incidence of depressive and anxiety disorders. ... Read more

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Social anxiety in childhood is the focus of research in three psychological research traditions: developmental studies emphasizing dispositional constructs such as behavioral inhibition and its biological substrates; development investigations emphasizing affective-behavioral characterists (anxious solitude/withdrawal) and their parent-child and peer-relational precursors and moderators; and clinical investigations of social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia) emphasizing a variety of etiolofical factors, diagnosis, and treatment.

In this volume, we review and identify gaps in extant evidence that permit (or impeded) researchers from the three traditions to translate their core definitional constructs in ways that would facilitate the use of one another's research. Topics include:

1. Conceptual relations between anxiety disorder and fearful temperament
2. Factors contributing to the emergence of anxiety among behaviorally inhibited children: the role of attention
3. Familial and temperamental risk factors for social anxiety disorder
4. Anxious solitude, withdrawal and anxiety disorders; conceptualization, co-occurrence, and peer processes
5. parents, peers and social withdrawal in childhood

Intimately connected to this translation of constructs is a discussion of the conceptualization of core states (anxiety, wariness, solitude) and their manifestations across childhood, as well as corresponding methodologies. Extant research is analyzed from an integrative, overarching framework of developmental psychopathology in which children's adjustment is conceptualized as multiply determined such that children who share certain risks may display diverse adjustment over time (multifinality) and children with diverse risks may develop shared adaptational difficulties over time (equifinality). Finally, key themes for future integrative research are identified and implications for preventative and early intervention in childhood social anxiety are discussed.

This is the 127th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. The mission of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in the field of child and adolescent development. Each volume focuses on a specific "new direction" or research topic, and is edited by an expert or experts on that topic. ... Read more

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Fighting for your next breath? Feeling as if the oxygen has been sucked out of the room forever and your lungs are being compressed by some enormous weight – just squeezing the very life out of them? Shallow, nervous breathing – other times deep, labored breaths - sensing an ominous monster-wave of panic rising up from behind ... anticipating it’s greedy desire to overtake, engulf and maul …It’s bearing down … any second now … just too much for flesh and blood!Are you ambling sort of aimlessly through a desert of a life that can get as sizzling hot as an oven? Is it searing your soul – intolerably? Few, if any, understands how desperate this can get … it’s so lonely in this place ... It’s so brutal – overwhelming, suffocating, numbing - unmercifully cremating the soul to smoldering ashes and shreds of what once have been. Now it seems so remote and unreachable as ifthat had been in a previous lifetime, or on another planet … when you used to be cheerful and optimistic, enjoying a relaxed, happy and meaningful life ... Read more

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Shyness isn't just a personality quirk--to some people it means that even a casual social interaction can be a nightmare. Endorsed by The Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA), the primary organization in the U.S. dedicated to the cure of anxiety disorders, this is the only book of its kind to provide a comprehensive psychological and medical approach for sufferers of the debilitating syndrome of acute shyness and social phobia.

Triumph Over Shyness focuses on a range of powerful new treatments that have become available and offer new hope for people with social anxiety. Other features include:

* Guidelines for coping with difficult social situations
* Pros and cons of various kinds of therapy
* Stories of others who have successfully overcome social anxiety
* The use of case histories to illustrate the points of each chapter
* Worksheets and checklists to zero in on problem areas
* Plus a special chapter for parents on how to help their children conquer shyness
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Customer Reviews (14)

Well written and effective self-help book
This book was useful in helping me understand my discomfort with public speaking and attending meetings with lots of unknown people. It offered step-by-step exercises to manage these situations.

excellent resource!
i found this book to be really helpful.i also did the mindfulness based stress reduction program and they reinforced each other.after a doctor told me i showed signs of social anxiety disorder, i went into a funk and became terribly afraid of having people to my home.then i read this book and started following some of the techniques suggested.i realised i needed to have people over again.the way to do this would be not to get into any anticipatory anxiety.so i just started to do this. it was helpful. a few months later a family event demanded that i have party.....this was my top listed fear! i decided to be really strict with anxious thoughts and stopped them immediately i thought them.i also focussed on pen and paper planning, and a friendhelped me with planning, prep, and hostessing.i was able to host the party without flipping into anxiety and it was successful beyond my expectations.i have to thank this book!

Triumph Over Shyness: Very Informative
This book was very insightful and gave many opportunities to practice the new skills that were learned in the book.

Triumph Over Shyness
Undoubtely the best treatment of this subject I have ever read.Anyone who thinks they may suffer from social anxiety should read this book.

Great introductory book
I bought this for myself and also for my parents to read to understand my social anxiety. It's a good "first" book to get an idea of what you need to do to overcome shyness and self-esteem issues. It presents the topic in clear, simple English without much of the medical mumbo-jumbo. However, I don't expect anyone to truly "Triumph over shyness" just by reading this book. However, I still recommend this book to those that have just decided to do something about their shyness or social anxiety disorder. ... Read more

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Self Therapy for Anxiety presents a simple method of overcoming generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, and panic attacks through self help. While doctors often prescribe medication to temporarily suppress anxiety symptoms, Self Therapy gives you the tools to permanently eliminate the underlying cause of anxiety. Whether you're experiencing simple stress and malaise, or housebound with anxiety attacks and agoraphobia, there's now a self help solution that can put you back in control!

Some user comments:
- "The stuff really works! I have used the techniques and they have helped sooooo much."
- "I have to admit I was a little skeptical having tried other types of therapies, but this one is definitely effective."
- "This program has given me back my life... Thank you, I am eternally grateful for your program."
- "Nice new approach, and the author was right! I tried meditation and yoga,and it never worked for my anxiety and now I understand why."
- "I had been off work for three months... I was able to go back after I had done the exercises."
- "I feel hopeful for the first time in my life that I can live without anxiety taking over my life. I really like the idea of getting to the core of anxiety instead of trying to cover it up with a medication."
- "This unique approach is just what I needed."
- "Thank you very much for this information... Wow!"
- "I am cured. Cheers" ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Anxiety Disorders, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Psychological group treatments, such as behavioral or cognitive-behavioral therapy, are generally effective interventions for social phobia. However, a substantial number of individuals discontinue these treatments prematurely. Participant attrition can threaten the validity of treatment outcome studies if attrition during therapy does not occur randomly. In order to examine this issue, we studied 133 individuals with a principal diagnosis of social phobia who initiated a 12-week behavioral or cognitive-behavioral group treatment for social phobia. Thirty-four participants discontinued therapy prematurely. These dropouts were compared to treatment completers in demographic characteristics, Axis I and II psychopathology, and their attitude toward treatment. The results only showed a small difference between treatment completers and dropouts in their attitude toward treatment: dropouts rated the treatment rationale as less logical than completers at the beginning of treatment. No other differences between dropouts and completers were observed. Therefore, dropouts are unlikely to present a serious threat to the external validity of treatment outcome studies for social phobia. ... Read more