Interview Anxiety: Some Basic Tips for Confidence-Building
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Some self-help tips for overcoming social anxiety and building self-confidence in interview situations, based on a cognitive-behavioural approach.
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Mindfulness & Social Resilience
Mindfulness & Social Resilience Gaining Appropriate Psychological Distance Copyright (c) Donald Robertson, 2012. All rights reserved. Distressing thoughts in social anxiety differ qualitatively from thoughts in most other forms of anxiety insofar as they are often attributed to other people, … Continue reading
Develop a Problem-Solving Attitude
This short article explores the concept of negative and positive problem orientation and how to assess and develop a general problem-solving attitude or mind-set.
Continue readingWilliam James on Acting “as if”
A beautiful quotation from the psychologist William James on acting “as if”.
Continue readingReview: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway (1987) by Susan Jeffers
This is an excerpt from 50 Self-Help Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon, reproduced by kind permission of the author, which reviews Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway (1987) by Susan Jeffers. Reproduced by kind permission of the author.
Continue readingWhere does self-confidence come from?
This short article considers the different ways in which confidence (or “self-efficacy”) can be increased in therapy or self-help.
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