Social Anxiety Relief for Teens by Jason Forte provides a guide to understanding and dealing with mental health difficulties.

This book gave more sight about anxiety, especially for how teens face their anxiety problem. Such an ispiring and educative book

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an E-Arc copy of this novel. Great books for teens!

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As a teen I had really bad social anxiety(even now, as an adult, I have it too). I wished I had a book like this then. But reading this now kind of helped me too.
I requested for this book from Netgalley so that I can read through it to see if it will be suitable for me to recommend it to my younger cousins who are facing situations where they find themselves having social anxiety. Would gladly say I would share it with them.

As a mental health counselor, I am always looking for new resources to share with clients to help them better understand their challenges and provide beneficial tools to help reduce those challenges. One mental health concern I see time and time again with teenagers is social anxiety. This book, Social Anxiety Relief for Teens, not only does a great job explaining in detail what social anxiety looks and feels like, but it also normalizes what the reader is experiencing. For teens, this can be incredibly helpful. Additionally, the skills it explains are very typical to what I teach in treatment, including relaxation techniques, cognitive restructuring, trigger and emotion identification, and socializing. At the end of each chapter "key takeaways" are included, which can be valuable for returning to chapters later on, or for those who just skim the information. I will definitely be using this resource in the future!

Very excited to acquire this title for our teen health section. Social anxiety is a huge issue in todays world and affects many different age groups especially teens. I thought this was a great book to provide, advice, solutions, and help to young teens looking for relief from this debilitating disorder.

As someone who has social anxiety, I found this one really helpful. The tips and the explanations were simply and easy to understand. The book also made me feel like I wasn't alone in my issues and that I'm not broken. I can navigate through a normal life too. Thank you so much for the e-arc! All my best wishes to the author.

This is quite a brief book focusing on different aspects of social anxiety and how to manage it, using techniques from CBT. I think if the book had stuck to this brief, it would have been fine, but there were some aspects I struggled with.
I found some of the language quite clinical, such as 'anxiety disorders', and this might result in teens suffering from anxiety thinking it is necessarily a lifelong issue, which seems to go against the ethos of the book.
I would have preferred some mention of autistic teenagers and how social anxiety might play out for them, and adapted approaches. This is because autistic teens are disproportionately likely to experience social anxiety, but CBT is typically less suitable for them without adaptation.
For example, the section on eye contact, and how it's a crucial skill for establishing trust is very unsuited to an autistic teenager. It goes on to say that people who are avoiding eye contact are perceived as dishonest or disgusted, which should have been more carefully written. This section could lead to autistic teens feeling shame over something they cannot control, which, again, seems to go against the ethos of the book.
That said, the section on celebrities who experienced anxiety was likely to be interesting to a teen audience.