Helping students overcome social anxiety : skills for academic and social success (SASS)

Social anxiety disorder causes significant distress and academic impairment for many adolescents.

This unique book gives front-line school professionals innovative, easy-to-use tools for identifying and intervening with socially anxious students in grades 6–12.

It presents Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS), a school-based intervention with demonstrated effectiveness.

Case examples and sample scripts demonstrate how to implement psychoeducation, cognitive strategies, social skills training, exposure, and relapse prevention with groups and individual students.

In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 22 reproducible handouts.

Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M.

Chafouleas.