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Many children are naturally shy but extreme shyness and social anxiety can become a major childhood problem, leading to avoidance of school, difficulty in making friends and even developing into social anxiety in adulthood. In "Overcoming Your Child's Shyness and Social Anxiety", child psychologists Lucy Willetts and Cathy Creswell explain how parents can help a shy child learn to challenge their thoughts and behaviour patterns and learn to participate confidently in every aspect of their lives. Based on clinically proven cognitive behavioural principles, the book explains what causes shyness, how to identify social anxiety in your child (sometimes masked by anger or stubbornness) and how to gradually help your child face their anxieties and develop problem-solving strategies. This book is a must for parents, teachers and anyone working with children. ... Read more

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Do you suffer from shyness, self-consciousness, blushing, fear of public speaking, stage fright, lack of self-confidence and other emotional inhibitions?

Then help yourself to eliminate these inhibitions here and now with the EL Method!

The EL METHOD(Emotional Liberation Method) by Tony Gaschler is an INTENSIVE ELIMINATION METHOD, which you can use to rid yourself quickly of unwanted psychological and social inhibitions in a surprisingly easy way without needing help from anyone else.

The EL Method has only been available in an English language version since 2007. The same version is available in German entitled "EE-Methode" and has been presented to great success on German TV, resulting in sales of more than 60,000 copies.

Read how this method works and what it can do for you:

Which NEGATIVE INHIBITIONS are mentioned most often in everyday speech?

There are numerous different psychological and social inhibitions.To help you find out the inhibition traits and feelings that you are suffering from personally, here is a short list:

shyness (in company or towards members of the opposite sex) --- fear of public speaking (fear of failure when speaking) --- insecurity and low self-esteem --- blushing and perspiring hands --- performance anxiety --- fear and lack of confidence when faced with bosses, higher-ranking people, and members of the opposite sex --- social anxiety, fear of other people and lack of contact (self-imposed isolation through anxiety at having to deal with people) --- self-consciousness (unfounded awkwardness due to lack of self-assurance)--- stage fright, fear of stages, and microphones (being petrified of giving speeches, presentations or doing practical tests, anxiety at being the focus of others' attention) --- lack of self-assurance and hesitancy when speaking in company --- lack of assertiveness and courage --- feelings of self-doubt and fear of expressing yourself in front of strangers --- general lack of confidence in meetings, talks, and negotiations --- temporarily at a loss for words, mind goes blank, and stammering in stress situations

These are just some examples of psychological and social inhibitions that make life difficult, cause social anxiety and prevent you from achieving both professional and personal success.

What are the CAUSES of psychological inhibitions?

First of all, it must be clearly and explicitly stated that psychological inhibitions are not abnormal, nor are they a form of illness, put simply, they are completely normal and logical patterns of behavior.

Inhibitions are false and impractical patterns of behavior that, once they have been learnt and acquired, are like any other habit in that they occur automatically and without any conscious intent.

Scientifically put:psychological inhibitions are inhibitory RESPONSE SYSTEMS. They cause the person afflicted to react with inhibitions in social situations and towards other people, and these reactions occur automatically and without conscious awareness.

Contrary to inhibited people, those who are not restrained by inhibitions have an unrestricted and self-assured RESPONSE SYSTEM that allows them to react freely and with self-confidence in any situation and in social interactions.

A person's behavior in any situation is always a consequence of his or her upbringing and personal experience.

The main cause of psychological inhibitions can be traced back to acquired habits, to holding back emotions, and to not expressing them.

People afflicted in this way have usually learnt an unconscious pattern of behavior in their childhood and adolescence that restricts and inhibits their natural way of expressing their emotions. These behavior patterns have often been triggered by learning processes that have repeatedly suppressed the natural development of their emotions during adolescence.

However, this does not cause feelings to be eliminated. On the contrary, suppressed emotions cause inhibitions to become unconscious behavioral responses that trigger feelings of anxiety and self-limitations.

It is not only during our formative years that inhibitions develop; even as adults we can develop inhibitory patterns of behavior following harmful and negative experiences.

Not only is your self-development affected by inhibitions, your feelings of happiness are also affected. Happiness is a natural conscious state that everyone strives to attain. True feelings of happiness can only be achieved if you are able to develop and find self-fulfillment within your own environment and society. Many people from every social group and from every level of education are prevented from finding happiness, from achieving self-fulfillment, from taking their rightful place in society, and from achieving professional recognition because of their emotional inhibitions. If you want to achieve your goals, you have to invest much more time and energy than those who exude self-assurance and confidence.

Tragic though the effects of inhibitions might be, there is also a simple way of removing them.A highly-effective self-help technique with distinct effective factors can be used to help you replace inhibitions with a genuine and self-confident pattern of behavior in a short space of time. You can rid yourself of any feelings of inhibition or any outward signs of inhibition that so often make your life difficult.

What EFFECTIVE FACTORS are used to eliminate my inhibitions?

The well-known psychologist and hypnosis specialist, Tony Gaschler (based in Bavaria, Germany), has spent years researching and developing a special form of autosuggestion:"DYNAMIC AUTOSUGGESTION".This dynamic autosuggestion method systematically erases old patterns of behavior, removes negative inhibitions and replaces them with new, self-assured RESPONSE SYSTEMS.

This dynamic method is unique and particularly effective.

The dynamic autosuggestion method has an advantage over other methods in that it is more intense, is faster and, above all, it acts fully automatically.

>> It does not matter whether you believe in it or not. It will always produce the same effective results. <<

Through your new, self-assured response system you will change your behavior patterns so quickly that even in the first weeks that you start practicing your success will be noticeable to your friends and associates.

Very often, clear noticeable effects take place following the first exercise and these continue to increase day by day. This is especially beneficial as you will find that these in turn increase your joy and enthusiasm for the entire method.

To establish a long-lasting effective and unrestricted response system, the period of time spent learning and practicing the system has been fixed at 10 weeks in total. Even when positive effects occur much earlier, you should still keep to this time period.

All the exercises are structured to fit in with the demands placed on your time schedule by our modern lifestyle. The individual exercises only take a few minutes each day.

Once you have acquired a new and unrestricted response system, this will then start to function automatically at a subconscious level.

Or, to put it another way, the previously inhibited individual will then automatically and subconsciously react to any situation and any other person in a completely unrestricted and self-assured manner. He or she is now free of their former repressive inhibitions and can develop freely and without any restrictions.

As a side effect, you will notice an increased joy of life, you will experience more feelings of happiness and will start to enjoy social interactions.

GENERAL ADVICE

The EL Method serves exclusively to remove inhibitions systematically by replacing these with new, unrestricted and self-assured response mechanisms.

The EL Method has a very deep and lasting effect on the entire psyche. Therefore it can also have healing effects and improve general health. Even psychosomatic illnesses may improve or disappear entirely when using the EL Method.

Under the German act on alternative practitioners, this method may not be advertised for use as medical treatment, it may only be used to achieve unrestricted and self-assured personal development. The side effects described above are therefore to be viewed solely as concomitant phenomena.

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1 Introductory guide --- 10 Step Programs with theoretical explanations and practical instructions and exercises (28cm x 20cm, total of 201 pages) --- Exercises for assistance in using the dynamic autosuggestion technique--- 1 Pendulum Board ... Read more

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The EL Method has changed my life
The EL METHOD justifies its price more than enough. For a life free of emotional inhibitions it is even worth its weight in gold. While I used the method, I felt how an inner change took place. Day by day, I became more self-assured, my inhibitions and feelings of restlessness and nervousness no longer occur. I now dare to enter into situations I used to take flight from before I had this feeling of emotional freedom. I even purposely look for social contacts and to talk to people. The reason is very simple: I am now able to develop and express myself much clearer and more easily because I am uninhibited.

Instead of fatigue and listlessness I now feel renewed and highly motivated. My behavior towards others is simple positive. I notice that when people are attracted to me. The EL METHOD made it possible for me to radically change my behavior and entire being for the better. The years of torment are finally over.
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The current study investigated the tendency of individuals with high levels of social anxiety to interpret ambiguous facial expressions in a threatening manner. Results obtained from self-report measures were consistent with previous studies in which highly socially anxious individuals endorsed threatening interpretations for ambiguous social information. More importantly, highly socially anxious participants showed relative facilitation of processing of threatening faces following neutral faces when a priming technique was used to eliminate artifact due to response selection bias. These findings support the hypothesized social anxiety-linked interpretive bias. ... Read more

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From the author: This study compared the strength of competing causal models in explaining the relationship between perceived support, enacted support, and social anxiety in adolescents. The social causation hypothesis postulates that social support causes social anxiety, whereas the social selection hypothesis postulates that social anxiety causes social support. The reciprocal model combines the two hypotheses by arguing that the causal relationship between social support and social anxiety is largely reciprocal. This study tests a modification of the reciprocal model by specifying perceptions of support as a mediating construct. Two waves of data with an interval of three months were collected on 357 college students. Structural equation modeling was used to compare the reciprocal and mediated reciprocal causal models. The study found some support for the mediated reciprocal model, but the magnitude of the relationships were weaker than expected. Limitations and suggestion for future research are discussed.

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Title: The relationship between social anxiety and social support in adolescents: a test of competing causal models.
Author: Robert J. Calsyn
Publication: Adolescence (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40Issue: 157Page: 103(11)

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Title: Alcohol use, cognitive correlates of drinking and change readiness in hazardous drinkers with high versus low social anxiety.
Author: Giao Q. Tran
Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 65Issue: 6Page: 715(10)

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This digital document is a journal article from Clinical Psychology Review, published by Elsevier in 2004. 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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We review the available treatments for social anxiety disorder, focusing primarily on psychotherapeutic interventions for adults, but also giving briefer summaries of pharmacological treatments and treatments for children and adolescents. The most well-researched psychosocial treatments for social anxiety disorder are cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs), and meta-analyses indicate that all forms of CBT appear likely to provide some benefit for adults. In addition, there are several pharmacological treatments with demonstrated efficacy, and cognitive-behavioral interventions have some demonstrated efficacy for children and adolescents. We outline a number of concerns regarding this literature, including the questions of what influences treatment response and what role combinations of CBT and medication might have. Clearly, although a number of treatments appear well-established in regard to their effects on social anxiety disorder, a number of opportunities for future research remain, including the search for predictors of who will benefit from which treatment. ... Read more

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Separation anxiety and social phobia are intertwined to a considerable degree, and high comorbidity rates have been reported. The present study used latent class analysis (LCA) to investigate if classes of children and adolescents with-simultaneously-high rates of separation anxiety and low rates of social anxiety symptoms, or vice versa, could be identified. Eight- to 18-year-olds from a large general population (n=1000) and referred sample (n=735) were assessed with the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC). With LCA, a separate class of referred 8-11-year-old children with high separation anxiety scores, and simultaneously lower social anxiety scores was identified, next to a class of children with high scores on separation anxiety and social anxiety. In the other groups (referred 12-18-year-olds and children and adolescents from the general population), a class with individuals who specifically scored high on separation anxiety could not be revealed. The results indicated that separation anxiety represents a different construct than social anxiety in referred children (but not in referred adolescents or in the general population). It can be concluded that, in referred children, research regarding etiology and treatment outcome of anxiety symptoms should be aimed specifically at separation anxiety and social anxiety, instead of just investigating a broader anxiety dimension. ... Read more

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Title: Social skill deficits and anxiety in high-functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.
Author: Scott Bellini
Publication: Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Pro-Ed
Volume: 19Issue: 2Page: 78(9)

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In their model of social phobia, Clark and Wells [1995. A cognitive model of social phobia. In R. G. Heimberg, M. Liebowitz, D. A. Hope & F. Schneier (Eds.), Social phobia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment (pp. 69-93). New York, London: The Guilford Press] introduced a process called ''post-event processing'' (PEP), which is characterized by prolonged rumination about past social situations. The present study examined to what extent PEP is specific for (a) social anxiety or (b) social situations. In a cross-sectional study, 217 participants reported about a social and a phobic event followed by negative thinking. PEP as well as its potential predictors such as social anxiety, general anxiety, and depression were measured by questionnaires. Results showed that social events were followed more often and by more intense PEP. Further confirming specificity, the fear of negative evaluation as an aspect of social anxiety was significantly associated with PEP for social but not for phobic situations, and vice versa; general anxiety predicted PEP only after phobic but not after social situations. Furthermore, PEP was elevated particularly for interaction (as opposed to performance) situations, indicating that the ambiguity of the situation may be an important predictor for prolonged processing. ... Read more