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Reddit mentions of The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens: CBT and ACT Skills to Help You Build Social Confidence
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens: CBT and ACT Skills to Help You Build Social Confidence. Here are the top ones.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is well-established as the most effective treatment for anxiety disorders, including social anxiety. I would look for a therapist specializing in CBT; it may be a good idea for him to go back on medication to augment the therapy, but it also may not be necessary. In the meantime you could check out a CBT-based workbook such as The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens, or if you think the anxiety issues are more general, you might try The Anxiety Workbook for Teens, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens, or My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Handling Anxiety and Panic. He will have much more success though working through something like this with a therapist, so I would suggest looking for one as soon as possible. It sounds like he may have some work to do rebuilding his self-esteem as well, which makes sense if he's been so isolated.
The other issue though is that it sounds like your son is reluctant to seek treatment. Do you get the sense that he's just given up because the meds didn't help, or he doesn't think this is a big deal, or he's gotten comfortable with the way things are and isn't motivated to change? He needs to have some autonomy in this and be invested in his own treatment for it to be effective. I would tell him you've heard about a very well-researched treatment that helps a lot of teens deal with their anxiety (CBT), and that you'd like him to try seeing someone who specializes in it a few times and see what he thinks. Find a few CBT therapists in your area (you might try the Psychology Today website directory or findcbt.org), ideally ones that specialize in working with young adults, and let him choose who he'd like to try seeing. If he doesn't click with the therapist after 3 or 4 sessions, he can try someone else.
You may also need to step back a bit in terms of the ways you're enabling his avoidance behavior - things like driving him everywhere so he doesn't have to get his license. You can point out to him that he won't be able to live at home forever, so you'd like him to start working on some skills for independent living. A therapist will be able to advise you on finding a balance between pushing him a bit while staying supportive. And of course keep making it clear to him that you're proud of his academic achievements and many other great qualities, so that he doesn't start feeling like too much of a failure or disappointment to his parents. Good luck to you and him!
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