Social anxiety disorder (SAD) involves fear of situations where others can negatively judge you. Explore causes, diagnosis, treatment, and more for the different types of SAD.
Objective To investigate the level of diagnostic and discriminative accuracy of The Social Anxiety Scale for Children – Revised (SASC-R) for identifying social anxiety disorder (SAD) in a community-based sample of 11–12 year-old children. Parent–child diagnostic agreement was also examined. ...
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The tendency to use alcohol as a coping mechanism for social anxiety, however, can come with a hefty price tag: a number of large-scale studies have reported a high rate of comorbidity between social anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorder (Morris, Stewart, & Ham, 2005)....
The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is the most frequently used instrument to assess social anxiety disorder (SAD) in clinical research and practice. Both a self-reported (LSAS-SR) and a clinician-administered (LSAS-CA) version are available. The aim of the present study was to define...
dating). According to large-scale epidemiological studies, social phobia is one of the most prevalent psychological disorders. Although prevalence estimates vary, recent studies suggest that approximately 7 per cent of Americans suffer from this disorder. In addition to the high percentage of people wi...
The finaldiagnosticfactor is that the anxiety and fear cannot be more correctly characterized as a different mental disorder, such as agoraphobia, bodydysmorphic disorder, or panic disorder. TheLiebowitz Social Anxiety Scaleevaluates a variety of situations that may provoke anxiety. The patient is aske...
Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is maintained by biased information-processing vis-à-vis threat of social exclusion. However, uncertainty still abounds regarding the very nature of this sensitivity to social exclusion in SAD. E
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by extensive fear in social situations. Multiple genetic and environmental factors are known to contribute to its pathogenesis. One of the main environmental risk factors is early life
Social anxiety disorder (SAD, SAnD) (DSM-IV300.23), also sometimes called socialphobia (SP),[1]is an anxiety disorder characterized by intensefear in social situations[1]causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in atleast some parts of daily life. The diagnosis can be of...