Understanding Social Anxiety: A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Family, and Friends

This powerful book explains the debilitating effects of social anxiety and the development of the disorder, emphasizing the need for a resolution of this disorder and identifying common but unhelpful coping mechanisms as well as true methods to change and live life unafraid of social situations.

• Presents a practical, realistic, and research-based examination of the development and continuation of social anxiety in individuals

• Provides readers with an understanding of the tangible health risks of social isolation

• Draws on clinical histories and examples from the community at large to illustrate various scenarios, document progression of the impairment, and identify effective steps toward resolution

• Written by an author with 30 years of experience with clients suffering from anxiety disorders, many of those coping with social anxiety