Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale.
SOFAS
Clinician-rated social and occupational functioning, independent of symptom severity
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 1 (single 0-100 anchored rating). clinician rating, 0-100 in 10-point bands (clinician-rated/interview)
- Language versions
- DSM-IV translation languages; widely used in early-psychosis research internationally
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Goldman, H.H., Skodol, A.E., & Lave, T.R. (1992). Revising Axis V for DSM-IV: a review of measures of social functioning. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149(9), 1148-1156.
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