The Social Functioning Scale the Development and Validation of a New Scale of Social Adjustment for use in Family Intervention Programmes with Schizophrenic Patients

作者：Max J. Birchwood, Jo Smith, Ray Cochrane, Sheila Wetton, Sonja Copestake · 发表于：The British Journal of Psychiatry · 年份：1990 · DOI：10.1192/bjp.157.6.853 · 被引用次数：1182 · 研究领域：Schizophrenia research and treatment、Family Caregiving in Mental Illness、Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Social functioning as an outcome variable in family interventions with schizophrenic patients has been a relatively neglected area. The requirements of a scale of social functioning to measure the efficacy of family interventions include: the measurement of skill/behaviour relevant to the impairments and the demography of this group; the ability to yield considerable information with an economy of clinical time; and the establishment of 'comparative' need through comparison between subscales and with appropriate reference groups. Results from three samples show that the Social Functioning Scale is reliable, valid, sensitive and responsive to change.