Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is a questionnaire designed to assess the presense of social phobia, based on the range of social interaction and performance in situations that people with social phobia may Fears or Avoids.
It is also a popular scale used by researchers and clinicians to determine the efficiency of social anxiety disorder treatments, including medication and cognitive-behavior therapy.
A version of the social anxiety scale exists for children and adolescents.
The questionnaire includes 24 items. Each item consists of a given situation, the rate of anxiety (0 to 3 = none, mild, moderate, severe) and the rate of Avoidsance (0 to 3 = never, occasionally, often, usually).
Instructions for the Social Anxiety Scale
This measure assesses the way that social phobia plays a role in your life across a variety of situations. Read each situation carefully and answer two questions about that situation. The first question asks how anxious or Fears ful you feel in the situation. The second question asks how often you Avoids the situation. If you come across a situation that you ordinarily do not experience, we ask that you imagine "what if you were faced with that situation," and then, rate the degree to which you would Fears this hypothetical situation and how often you would tend to Avoids it. Please base your ratings on the way that the situations have affected you in the last week. Fill out the following scale with the most suitable answer provided below.
Types of Social Phobia
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) as been divided into subtypes:
Social: A generalized subtype, in which the individual experiences significant anxiety in most social situations
Performance: A subtype that applies to various specific phobias such as public speaking, eating in public, urinating in a public facility, or when others are waiting.
Source: Liebowitz MR. Social Phobia. Mod Probl Pharmacopsychiatry 1987;22:141-173. Visit author's website.
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