The Survival Value of Fear and Fitting In
- Myths and realities of social anxiety
- The transdiagnostic nature of perfectionism
- Best practice assessments for social anxiety and perfectionism
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social anxiety
Implementing Cognitive Strategies
- Common core beliefs, underlying assumptions, and automatic thoughts of socially anxious perfectionistic clients
- How to catch distorted thinking:
- Probability overestimations
- Catastrophic thinking
- Double standards
- Overgeneralizations
- Should statements
- Selective attention
- Cognitive restructuring done right – thought records and pie charts
- How to design behavioral experiments and surveys that challenge clients unhelpful thought processes
- Imagery rescripting to revisit and resolve painful social memories
- Avoid common cognitive therapy mistakes and troubleshooting for common issues
- Adaptations for working with children and adolescents
Facilitating Successful Exposure
- Common client and therapist misconceptions about exposure-based strategies
- Principles of effective versus ineffective exposure
- How to choose and plan the best exposure modality for socially anxious perfectionistic clients
- In-vivo exposure
- Simulated exposure and social skills training
- Virtual reality
- Imaginal exposure
- Interoceptive exposure
- The latest inhibitory learning approaches to maximize exposure therapy
- Avoid common exposure therapy mistakes and troubleshooting for common issues
- Adaptations for working with children and adolescents
Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Approaches
- Cultivate clients’ self-compassion and willingness to have internal experiences that are “negative”
- Strategies for facilitating clients’ mindfulness skills
- Facilitate behavioral change in line with clients’ core values
Honoring Clients’ Ambivalence While Helping Them Change
- How to monitor for and facilitate change talk in clients’ stories of social anxiety
- Effective rolling with the resistance of perfectionism
- Strategies for responding to discord in the therapy relationship
- Tips to improve out-of-session assignments


