This particular questionnaire can be useful to determine the levels of social anxiety you may be experiencing and in particular the types of environment or situations where you may have felt more socially anxious compared to other social situations.

The questionnaire is also in two parts, the first scores the fear of a situation, whilst the second scores the level of avoidance.

In addition to providing a range of score to indicate the severity of distress in these situations, the responses will also assist in developing your treatment plan, as we can target the specific situations where you have felt most uncomfortable or the situations you may avoid.

Please take your time to answer each question, you can enter your name and Mike Ward will be in contact to discuss your responses personally with you. The London anxiety clinic provides a 30 minute complimentary telephone consultation. Or you can answer these questions anonymously and the score will be provided for you at the bottom of the page.

The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is a questionnaire developed by Dr. Michael R. Liebowitz, a psychiatrist and researcher.Reproduced with permission.

1.    This measure assesses the way that social phobia plays a role in your life across a variety of situations.

2.    Read each situation carefully and answer two questions about that situation.

3.    The first question asks how anxious or fearful you feel in the situation.

4.    The second question asks how often you avoid the situation.

5.    If you come across a situation that you ordinarily do not experience, we ask that you imagine "what if you were faced with that situation," and then rate the degree to which you would fear this hypothetical situation and how often you would tend to avoid it. Please base your ratings on the way that the situations have affected you in the last week.