vvvvvvyvvvrevwovrvyvwoyvywe+ywvywW?wwegY¥Y Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale asissw Name Date, Fill out the following questionnaire with the most suitable answer listed below. Base your answers on your experience in the past week and, if you have completed the scale previously, be as consistent as possible in your perception of the situation described. Be sure to answer all items. PU 0 = Never (0%) 1 = Occasionally (1%-83% of the time) 2 = Often (33%-67% of the time) ually (67%-100% of the time) Fear or Anxiety 2 = Moderate FEAROR | AVOIDANCE Understanding the situations: iNet Telephoning in public - speaking onthe tsephone in 3 publi place | Part ating in small groups - nang @dscussion vith a ow ots Eating in public places - do you romble handing fos 1 2 3 44. Drinking with others in public places - testo ary beverage icucingacoha 5 6 z Talking to people in authority - for eanpl a bss or acher ‘Acting, performing or giving a talkin front of an audience - iso «ge aes 7. Going to a party ~ an average pry to wich you maybe invited assume you kraw some but etal people ate party 8. Working while being observed - ary ye of wrk you might oincding school wark or hausenark ‘9, Writing while being observed - for example, signing a check na bank _ i I 10. Calling someone you don'tknow very well I 11 Talking with people you don’t know very well 12. Meeting strangers - assure ates are of average inporance to you 13. Urinating in a public bathroom - assure that otes are sometines preset, as might normally be expected —_ | 14. Entering a room when others are already seated - retro 2 smal group, and nobooy nas to rave seats or you 15, Being the center of attention - tating a story to 2 group of people 16. Speaking up at a meeting -spesing from your seat na small meeting or standing up in place na | lage meeting 17 Taking a written test 18 Expressing appropriate disagreement or disapproval to people you don't know very well 119, Looking at people you don’t know very well in the eyes toa 20. Giving a report to a group - eters to an oral report to a smal group 21. Trying to pick up someone - ce 22, Returning goods toa store where returns are normally accepted | 23.Giving an average party 24, Resisting a high pressure salesperson -avcidance refs to listing othe salesperson oto ongvvvvvvvvv yyy Vv VY ¥ Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale sass») ‘A Screening Test for Social Anxiety Disorder The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is @ clinician-rating scale created to assess social phobia. ‘The LSAS assesses the range of social interaction and performance situations that patients with soci phobia fear and/or avoid.’ The scale includes 24 items divided into two subscales that evaluate socia interactional and performance situations. How to administer: > Ask the patient to rate fear and avoidance during the past week on 0-3 Likert scales > Clearly define the situation in each item, especially the fist time the patient completes the scale > Emphasize the importance of consistency in rating each item the same way each time through the scale Scores for the LSAS can be presented as: > One global score totalling anxiety and avoidance for all 24 items > Separate performance and social subscores; each subscore combines anxiety and avoidance tote over the relevant items > Four separate subscores for performance anxiety, performance avoidance, social anxiety, and social avoidance Moderate social phobia Marked social phobia Severe social phobia Very severe social phobia Greater than 95 Reference T vshonte MR, Soil phobia, Mod Pro’ Pharmacopsyiatry 1987223141478,