25 ways to help your shy child

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ABDULLA M

Interventions aimed at helping primary school-aged children with their shyness can help reduce anxiety, social phobia and mental health issues, according to a systematic review of studies on the topic. Researchers looked at 25 studies trialing interventions for children aged 6-12 to help with their shyness, and found these were all able to reduce the negative impacts of shyness. These studies were mostly weekly programs within a school setting using techniques like exposure, peer mediation, psychoeducation and cognitive restricting.

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Organisation/s: Curtin University, Northumbria University, UK

Funder: The work was conducted using funding from an internal grant, granted by the University of Oslo, Department of Special Needs Education. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. Authors who are employed by University of Oslo do receive a salary from the University.

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