Making a Plan for Change
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REVIEWING PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS TO TREAT 
YOUR SOCIAL ANXIETY
This section has two purposes. First, if you’ve tried to overcome your social anxiety in 
the past, it will help you review the treatments that worked for you and those that were 
not especially helpful. Second, this section will help you to identify possible reasons 
why certain previous attempts to overcome your social anxiety were not useful, if this 
was your experience. By identifying the reasons for previously successful and not-so-
successful treatment attempts, you will be able to make more educated decisions about 
what types of strategies to try now. If a treatment has worked well in the past, you may 
want to try it again. If you did not beneﬁt from a particular treatment previously, you 
may want to try something new. However, you should still consider giving a particular 
treatment another try if you didn’t give it a fair chance the ﬁrst time.
In the spaces that follow, check off any treatments that you have tried in the past. 
Also, describe the treatment and record whether the outcome was helpful.