551- Hidden Fears, Quiet Shame: Social Anxiety in Middle School to College Students
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., discusses a form of social anxiety common in teens and young adults with ADHD — a fear of being embarrassed in social situations, or anxiety about how others may perceive them. Learn how to recognize and support teens who harbor such fears.
Social Anxiety: Additional Resources
- Free Download: Social Anxiety Facts and Falsehoods
- Self-Test: Social Anxiety Test for Teens
- Read: “Help! My Child Won’t Go to School.”
- Read: You’re Not Shy or Stuck Up. You Have Social Anxiety Disorder.
- Read: 6 Cognitive Distortions That Fuel Anxiety in ADHD Brains
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Carol Fleck, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I'm delighted to welcome you to today's ADHD expert's presentation |
| 0:23.6 | titled Hidden Fears Quiet Shame, Social Anxiety in Middle School to College Students. |
| 0:32.0 | Leading today's presentation is Dr. Thomas Brown. Dr. Brown is a clinical psychologist. He specializes in the assessment |
| 0:40.8 | and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with ADHD and related conditions. He is the |
| 0:48.6 | founder of the Brown Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders in Manhattan Beach, California. |
| 0:55.8 | Dr. Brown is also a clinical professor of psychiatry and neuroscience |
| 1:00.2 | at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine |
| 1:04.3 | and an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association. |
| 1:09.4 | He's the author of the Brown Executive Function |
| 1:12.7 | Attention Rating Scales, and he is the author of six books on ADHD. We know that some |
| 1:20.2 | children with neurodevelopmental disorders can have a difficult time in social settings. |
| 1:25.7 | I recommend a few articles from the spring issue of Attitude |
| 1:28.9 | Magazine. On page 46, you'll find our feature on how to nurture hope and resilience in children |
| 1:36.0 | and young adults. And on page 23, we learn how the difficult childhood memories we carry with us |
| 1:43.8 | actually interfere with making friends, and we learn how the difficult childhood memories we carry with us actually interfere with making friends, |
| 1:46.8 | and we learn how to change that. |
| 1:49.8 | And on page 11, an expert explains how to help teen boys who retreat into video games develop |
| 1:57.1 | friendships in real life. |
| 1:59.2 | Finally, the sponsor of this webinar is Play Attention. |
| 2:03.1 | Play Attention, inspired by NASA Technology and backed by Tufts University Research, |
| 2:08.7 | helps students strengthen executive function, the key to managing anxiety, |
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