Social Anxiety Disorder Recovery Program
An 8 week recovery program for people living with social anxiety disorder
A skills based program for people experiencing social anxiety disorder as a primary condition. The program is aimed at supporting participants to gain knowledge, skills and strategies to assist recovery from social anxiety disorder. The program provides a warm and safe environment in which participants will be supported to face and take control of their fears.
This program will assist you to:
- Gain better understanding and knowledge of social anxiety
- Change unhelpful thoughts, beliefs and behaviours
- Identify patterns of behaviours and feelings that maintain social anxiety - and learn ways to establish new, more helpful patterns
- Develop skills to manage the physical anxiety responses
- Gradually face anxiety producing situations
- Overcome barriers to achieving your goals
- Enhance confidence in social situations
Course Details:
Dates: Friday 18th May to Friday 6th July, 2007
Course Duration: 8 sessions of 2 hours
Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm
Venue: ARCVic, 42 High Street Road, Ashwood
Fee: $150.00
Facilitators: Iris I'Anson, Psychologist, ARCVic Consultant
A pre-program interview will be arranged with interested participants to assess the program's suitability in meeting each person's requirements.
The program is conducted in a group setting with between 8 to 10 participants.
For further information contact ARCVic on:
Office Line - 9886 9233 or OCD & Anxiety HelpLine - 9886 9377,
or send in the Registration of Interest form (PDF).
Comments made by previous participants:
- "Just going to the group and being with other people with social anxiety made me realise that others have anxieties similar to mine..."
- "Feeling that I'm not just hopeless, and that there are a lot of people with the same fears and worries about interacting with others."
- "Exploring negative thoughts and education really helped define things and identify issues more clearly."
- "Learning realistic thinking strategies... challenging anxious thoughts."
- "Knowing to not let setbacks get in the way of our goal towards lessening social anxiety."
- "A little more self confidence... others have noticed this also"
- "I can more effectively look people in the eye - greater self-esteem - valuable social skills which I can use in everyday situations - this program has given me direction and hope that my social phobia can gradually be overcome."
- "The opportunity to experience interacting with unfamiliar people in a safe and supportive environment."
- "I have recently completed a work training course... without the program I would never have been able to achieve this."
- "A wonderful, interesting and informative program with great facilitators."