Application Of Padesky’s ‘Assertive Defense Of The Self’ Method Used In Social Anxiety To Young Children And Teenagers Being Bullied
What is anxiety? Anxiety can generally be conceptualised by the diagram below; clients overestimate the danger and the likelihood that something bad will happen and they underestimate how well they will cope with feared situations: ANXIETY = OVERESTIMATION OF DANGER (POTENCY + LIKELIHOOD) + UNDERESTIMATION OF ABILITY TO COPE OR LIKELIHOOD OF GETTING HELP FROM…
