Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

This book presents to the public for the first time the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) program for overcoming shyness. This program has proven to be highly effective in studies on treating social anxiety disorder and related subclinical levels of shyness. In the first part of the book, you will learn about different fundamental symptoms of social anxiety. The second part will help develop psychological flexibility (which will improve your ability to accept feelings, thoughts, and behaviors), which can emerge when you learn to overcome anxiety. By keeping values in focus, you will gradually learn to move beyond your fears and towards greater social confidence.