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Screening for social anxiety disorder in the clinical setting: using the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.
Douglas S. Mennin,David M. Fresco,Richard G. Heimberg,Franklin R. Schneier,Sharon O. Davies,Michael R. Liebowitz +5 more
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Findings provide support for the use of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for the identification of individuals with SAD and its generalized subtype in clinical settings and should increase the percentage of these patients who receive appropriate treatment for this impairing disorder.About:
This article is published in Journal of Anxiety Disorders.The article was published on 2002-01-01. It has received 391 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Liebowitz social anxiety scale & Social anxiety.read more
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Social anxiety disorder.
TL;DR: A range of effective cognitive behavioural and pharmacological treatments for children and adults now exists; the challenges lie in optimum integration and dissemination of these treatments, and learning how to help the 30-40% of patients for whom treatment does not work as discussed by the authors.
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Attention Training in Individuals with Generalized Social Phobia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Nader Amir,Courtney Beard,Charles T. Taylor,Heide Klumpp,Jason A. Elias,Michelle Nicole Burns,Xi Chen +6 more
TL;DR: Results revealed that the AMP facilitated attention disengagement from threat from pre- to post assessment and reduced clinician- and self-reported symptoms of social anxiety relative to the ACC, suggesting that computerized attention training procedures may be beneficial for treating social phobia.
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Avoidance of emotional facial expressions in social anxiety: The Approach–Avoidance Task
TL;DR: The Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT) was employed to indirectly investigate avoidance reactions to stimuli of potential social threat, and a critical discrepancy between direct and indirect measures was observed for smiling faces: HSAs evaluated them positively, but reacted to them with avoidance.
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Screening for social anxiety disorder with the self-report version of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.
Nina K. Rytwinski,David M. Fresco,Richard G. Heimberg,Meredith E. Coles,Michael R. Liebowitz,Shadha Hami Cissell,Murray B. Stein,Stefan G. Hofmann +7 more
TL;DR: The LSAS‐SR may be an accurate and cost‐effective way to identify and subtype patients with social anxiety disorder, which could help increase the percentage of people who receive appropriate treatment for this debilitating disorder.
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The Reverse of Social Anxiety Is Not Always the Opposite: The Reverse-Scored Items of the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale Do Not Belong
TL;DR: Using samples of undergraduates and a sample of clients with social anxiety disorder, it is found that the reverse-scored items show a strong relationship with the normal personality characteristic of extraversion, suggesting that the reversed items of the SIAS may primarily assess extraversion.
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