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Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear and Panic. Jeffrey Brantley, $22.95

Calming Your Anxious Mind is a gentle call to stop and pay more attention to your self and your life, and practice being - not doing. Practicing mindfulness and attending to life, moment by moment, will reduce your anxiety and stress and help you find peace and calm.

Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind. Jeffrey Brantley & Wendy Millstine, $18.95

In his first book, Calming Your Anxious Mind, psychiatrist and author Jeffrey Brantley, shows you how to use the principles of mindfulness to manage anxiety and panic and rediscover the joy in living. Now in this follow-up book, he and coauthor Wendy Millstine present a series of daily meditations you can use to overcoming fear, anxiety, and panic. These easy-to-learn and practice techniques can ease anyone into a regular beneficial mindfulness practice. Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind also includes visualizations, affirmations, and activities you can use to deal with anxiety in daily life. By practicing these techniques, you'll discover their own inner core of stability, peace, and presence.


The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Shyness & Social Anxiety. Lynne Henderson, $19.95

The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence offers a supportive program based in compassion-focused therapy for moving past social anxiety and the self-critical thoughts that propel it.

The program in this book helps you both accept your shyness as part of your personality and challenge your social anxiety when it keeps you from living the life you want. This book also provides dozens of exercises that will help you practice mindfulness, imagery, compassionate thinking, and compassionate action-critical skills that will help you develop the ability to overcome shyness and make strides toward complete social confidence.


How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. Don Gabor, $17.00

Break through the shyness barrier, be a better speaker, meet more people and make new friends. How to Start a Conversation shows you how communicate with confidence, wit and enthusiasm in person or on the phone, one-on-one or in groups.


The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Free Yourself from Fear and Reclaim Your Life. Jan Fleming, Nancy Kocovski, Zindel Segal, $23.95

Shyness is a common problem that comes with a high price. If you suffer from shyness or social anxiety you might avoid social situations and may have trouble connecting with others due to an extreme fear of humiliation, rejection, and judgment. As a shy person, you may also experience panic attacks that make it even more likely that you’ll avoid social situations.

With The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness, the authors’ acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) program for overcoming shyness has become available to the public for the first time. This program has been found to be highly effective in research studies for the treatment of social anxiety disorder and related subclinical levels of shyness.

In the first section, you will confront performance fears, test anxiety, shy bladder, and interpersonal fears—fundamental symptoms of social anxiety. The second part helps you learn psychological flexibility to improve your ability to accept the feelings, thoughts, and behavior that may arise as you learn to work past your anxiety.


Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. Susan Cain, $18.00

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society — from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.

Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, QUIET shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a journey from Dale Carnegie’s birthplace to Harvard Business School, from a Tony Robbins seminar to an evangelical megachurch, Susan Cain charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal in the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effects. And she draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to reveal the surprising differences between extroverts and introverts.

Perhaps most inspiring, she introduces us to successful introverts — from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. This extraordinary book has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves.

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Social Intelligence: the New Science of Human Relationships. Daniel Goleman, $19.95

In SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a “neural ballet” that connects us brain to brain with those around us. Our reactions to others, and theirs to us, have a far-reaching biological impact, sending out cascades of hormones that regulate everything from our hearts to our immune systems, making good relationships act like vitamins—and bad relationships like poisons. Goleman explains the surprising accuracy of first impressions, the basis of charisma and emotional power, the complexity of sexual attraction, and how we detect lies. He describes the “dark side” of social intelligence, from narcissism to Machiavellianism and psychopathy. He also reveals our astonishing capacity for “mindsight,” as well as the tragedy of those, like autistic children, whose mindsight is impaired.


Social Literacy: a Social Skills Seminar for Young Adults with ASDs, NLDs, and Social Anxiety. Mary Riggs Cohen, $54.95

All adults need strong social skills to find and keep a job, establish relationships, and participate fully in adult life — but building these skills can be a special challenge for people with autism, Asperger syndrome, nonverbal learning disorder, social anxiety, and other disorders affecting social learning.

With Social Literacy, professionals will have everything they need to conduct a full 12 weeks of lessons. This book-and-CD set includes practical guidance on establishing a social learning course, strategies for recruiting and training social coaches, photocopiable handouts, and exercises that help participants understand and practice social skills, and a CD-ROM with more than 100 PowerPoint slides for instructional use. A highly effective way to teach critical social skills to high-functioning adults, this proven curriculum will prepare participants to successfully navigate the joys and challenges of adult life.

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Complete Booklist

Social Skills Resources for Adults

Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear and Panic. Jeffrey Brantley, $22.95

The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Shyness & Social Anxiety. Lynne Henderson, $19.95

Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind. Jeffrey Brantley & Wendy Millstine, $18.95

Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control. Scott Spradin, $22.95

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.10th Anniversary Edition. Daniel Goleman, $22.00

The Highly Sensitive Person:  How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You. Elaine Aron, $22.95

The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook.  Elaine Aron, $22.95

How to Be a Perfect Stranger: the Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook, 4th Edition. Edited by Stuart Matlins & Arthur Magida, $23.95

How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. Don Gabor, $17.00

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Free Yourself from Fear and Reclaim Your Life. Jan Fleming, Nancy Kocovski, Zindel Segal, $23.95

Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. Susan Cain, $18.00

The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven Step-by-Step Techniques for Overcoming Your Fear. Martin Antony & Richard Swinson, $24.95

Social Intelligence: the New Science of Human Relationships. Daniel Goleman, $19.95

Social Literacy: a Social Skills Seminar for Young Adults with ASDs, NLDs, and Social Anxiety. Mary Riggs Cohen, $54.95

Triumph Over Shyness: Conquering Shyness and Social Anxiety. Murray Stein & John Walker, $20.95

Working with Emotional Intelligence. Daniel Goleman, $25.95

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