The social skills guidebook : manage shyness, improve your conversations, and make friends, without giving up who you are

Summary: "Improve your people skills. You think your social life could be better. Maybe you've felt shy as long as you can remember. Your conversations have more awkward moments than you'd like. You don't need a ton of friends, but you'd like to have some people to hang out with on occasion. You want to make changes, but you don't know where to start. Lots of people have been in your shoes. You're hardly a lost cause, and it's never too late to turn things around. You don't have to give up your personality, interests, or values either."--Cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780994980700
ISBN: 0994980701
Physical Description: print
iv, 357 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

The overall process of improving your social skills -- Addressing some common challenges and concerns about working on your social skills -- Section 1: Tackling the main mental barriers to socializing. Seeing the effects of shyness, anxiety, poor self-confidence, and discouragement -- Shifting your mind-set about your social discomfort -- Handling counterproductive thinking about socializing -- Hands-on strategies for taking the edge off anxiety -- Reducing fears and insecurities through real-world experiences-- Increasing your self-esteem and confidence -- Section 2: Developing your conversation skills. Getting a basic feel for conversations -- Dealing with awkward silences in conversations -- Starting one-on-one conversations -- Having deeper conversations -- Ending conversations -- Navigating group conversations -- Making conversation in particular situations -- Becoming aware of empathy -- Core listening skills -- Recognizing and acting on other people's nonverbal communication -- Improving your own nonverbal communication -- Conversation mistakes -- Being more likable -- Being more fun -- Assertiveness skills -- Section 3: Forming and growing friendships. Introduction to the process of making friends -- Finding potential friends -- Making plans with potential friends -- Deepening new friendships -- Making a group of friends -- Making friends in particular situations -- Troubleshooting the process of making friends -- Looking forward as your social skills improve -- Appendix A: Asperger's syndrome/mild autism.