Social Anxiety in Schizophrenia: A Cognitive Behavioural Group Therapy Program
Centre for Clinical Interventions, WA Dept of Health (Australia) · 2003 · 142 pages · For clinicians running groups in psychosis services
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Free download from CCI under the same personal-use terms as its other web-distributed manuals. Note this targets social anxiety within schizophrenia; CCI's general social anxiety and panic protocols are purchase-only.
If the publisher link moves: archived copy
A group CBT program for the social anxiety that commonly co-occurs with schizophrenia, blending graded exposure, cognitive work, and social practice in a format adapted for the attentional and symptom realities of psychotic illness.
Comorbid social anxiety is one of the most treatable drivers of isolation in this population, and this is the only complete free protocol addressing it directly.
Run it with these materials
The social anxiety and safety-behavior worksheets carry the program's exposure and dropped-safety-behavior work.
This manual is a publication of Centre for Clinical Interventions, WA Dept of Health (Australia). Therapy Resource is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, its publisher. The summary above is our own; always follow the manual itself and your clinical judgment. If you are in crisis, contact 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or call 911.