What Is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This informational handout provides a client-friendly overview of social anxiety disorder (SAD) and ways to address it.
What Is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Social anxiety disorder is a mental health difficulty that can affect anyone. This tool explains what social anxiety is, what can keep it going, and how it can be treated.
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Our ‘What Is … ?’ series is a collection of one-page information handouts for common mental health conditions. Friendly and explanatory, handouts in the series describe how it can feel to struggle with a difficulty and are reliable sources of information for your clients. Drawing upon established cognitive behavioral models, each handout has a particular focus on maintaining factors that might prevent the problem from getting better.
What Is Social Anxiety Disorder? is designed to help clients with social anxiety to understand more about their difficulties and how they can be addressed.
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