This is a companion article to the previous article in this Journal that introduced the DEP-6 depressive disorders screening measure. The present article introduces a similarly brief screening measure for anxiety disorders, called the ANX-8, which distinguishes post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobia. The article begins by criticizing the main measures of anxiety disorders in use at present and arguing for a brief yet comprehensive multi-diagnostic measure to replace them. The main part of the article explains the rationale for this new measure which, like the DEP-6, is based on the author’s core symptom theory, and provides the ANX-8 questionnaire and explains its interpretation. The final part of the article suggests best-practice treatments for the various anxiety disorders identified by the measure. The ANX-8 questionnaire, like the DEP-6 questionnaire, is freely available in this article for translation into other languages.
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