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Re: Getting Over Anxiety

From: Lynne Shields
Date: 05 Oct 2008
Time: 09:06:15 -0500
Remote Name: 76.215.118.209

Comments

Klaas shared some good ideas for working with your client directly on the anxiety issues in individual sessions. One other suggestion is to consider building up to speaking with others slowly, rather than jumping right to the group setting. At some point, you and the client can create a hierarchy of situations in which speaking with others is involved. Perhaps the easiest step on the 'ladder' might be inviting a friend or close family member to join a therapy session and talk about non-stuttering topics with you and the family member, then stuttering, then inviting someone else at your clinic or school with whom the client is familiar, and so on. Eventually, the client may be able to transition to the group sessions fairly easily with a graduated approach. Regards, Lynne


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