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Social Functioning Scale (SFS)

Full name of scale

Social Functioning Scale

Languages

English, Spanish, German, Norwegian, Japanese

Rater

Patient and clinician-rated

Training

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Utility

Research settings

 

It is a 79-item measure

Research showed that it provides a reliable and valid assessment of social functioning among patients with early psychosis and social anxiety disorder.

It assesses the following dimensions:

  • Social engagement/withdrawal (amount of time to spend alone, the likelihood to initiate conversation)
  • Interpersonal behaviour (number of friends, engagement in a romantic relationship)
  • Prosocial activities (participation in social activities e.g. visit friends, play sports)
  • Recreation (engagement in activities and hobbies)
  • Independence-competence (ability to maintain independent living)
  • Independence-performance (performance of the skills required for independent living)
  • Employment/occupation (engagement in employment)

Time to complete

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Cost/license

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Birchwood, M., Smith, J. O., Cochrane, R., Wetton, S., & Copestake, S. (1990). The social functioning scale: The development and validation of a new scale of social adjustment for use in family intervention programmes with schizophrenic patients. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 157(6), 853–859. Follow this link for the article.

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