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Table 2 Overview of social skills training program

From: Improving the retention rate for residential treatment of substance abuse by sequential intervention for social anxiety

Session

Content

Session 1: psychoeducation

• Introduction

 

• Provide therapy rationale anxiety and social anxiety psychoeducation

 

• Introduce and personalise model of social anxiety

Session 2: cognitive model

• Review model of social anxiety & treatment rationale

 

• Introduce importance of realistic/helpful thinking

 

• Generate unhelpful/unrealistic thoughts with client

 

• Introduce more realistic/helpful thinking

Session 3: attention and behavioural experiments

• Group introduction and guidelines

 

• Review rationale and goals for social anxiety group

 

• Review cognitive component and model of social anxiety

 

• Introduce attention training/breathing exercise

 

• Conduct attention behavioural experiments

Session 4: review and relapse prevention

• Review week and homework

 

• Review social anxiety model

 

• Review treatment components

 

• Discuss nature of recovery and relate to upcoming challenges

 

• Relapse prevention planning

 

• Administer post-intervention questionnaires