The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents: An initial psychometric investigation

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1076-1084

  Masia Warner, Carrie ^a,f   Storch, Eric A ^b   Pincus, Donna B ^c   Klein, Rachel G ^a   Heimberg, Richard G ^d   Liebowitz, Michael R ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinician rated; Reliability; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0141905037     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CHI.0000070249.24125.89     Document Type: Article

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