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Home > CBT Worksheets for Young People > Social Anxiety

CBT worksheets to support teenagers with social anxiety

Social Anxiety

Social anxiety is a common difficulty among adolescents and can significantly impact confidence, participation, and relationships.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the NICE-recommended treatment for social anxiety disorder in children and young people (NICE CG159, 2013).

According to the Clark and Wells (1995) cognitive model, social anxiety is maintained by processes such as negative self-appraisal, self-focused attention, safety behaviours, and post-event rumination.

Our resources support practitioners to help young people recognise and modify the maintaining patterns of social anxiety through targeted cognitive and behavioural strategies. They include:

  • Formulation worksheets to help young people understand how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours interact in social situations

  • Activities on unhelpful thinking styles to identify and challenge common thinking traps

  • Behavioural experiment templates to help young people test predictions and build social confidence

  • Teen-friendly graphics, language, and examples to make the process relatable and accessible

Social Anxiety: How does it all connect?

What goes on for us when we feel socially anxious

Inside a social anxiety experience

Social anxiety: A map of your experience

Why social anxiety shows up

Why does social anxiety keep getting in my way?

When your brain turns the spotlight on you

Why social situations can feel intense

Social worries: What cap is your brain wearing?

Sorting out social worries: Spot the thinking cap

Playing it safe: How social anxiety can trick us

Trying something new: Behavioural experiments

Understanding tricky social moments (example)

Understanding tricky social moments (blank)

Putting social worries to the test (blank)

Putting social worries to the test (example)

Behavioural experiments: Helping pupils face fears

Behavioural experiments: Helping your teen face fears

Social anxiety: how does it all connect? (example – archived)

Social anxiety: how does it all connect? (blank – archived)

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